As real estate agents, one of the most fascinating parts of our job is the opportunity to see a wide variety of homes. In these parts, as with much of the United States, you can find everything from the most ...

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BEIJING — Chinese officials found five fake Apple stores in a southwestern city and ordered two of them to suspend business while they’re investigated, a local government website said Monday. Officials couldn’t do anything about the other three stores — ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. is in talks to potentially bid for video-streaming service Hulu, a person close to the situation said Friday. The person, who said Apple is among several companies interested in Hulu, spoke on condition of anonymity ...

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BEIJING — At first, it looks like a sleek Apple store. Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the company’s logo chat to customers. Signs advertising the iPad 2 hang from the white walls. Outside, the famous logo sits next to ...

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NEW YORK — A rally over hopes for a debt-limit deal turned into a waiting game for investors. One day after the Dow Jones industrial average had its best day this year, the stock market edged lower on Wednesday. Analysts say ...

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SINGAPORE  — Internet minders voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in the system’s biggest shake-up since it started 26 years ago. Groups able to pay ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave Monday to show off the company’s latest innovations and sustain the hope that he eventually will return to dream up more ways to reshape technology. The ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to take a break from medical leave Monday to announce a new service called iCloud. Apple has released few other details, but iCloud will apparently allow customers to store their music ...

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NEW YORK — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs will take a break from medical leave to deliver the keynote speech at next week’s Apple conference, the company said Tuesday. Apple shares rose $5.49, or 1.6 percent, to $342.90 after rising ...

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Privacy is certainly a hot topic in Congress these days. However, as fast as bills are introduced to address the potential harm from ubiquitous gathering of personal information (five this year so far), new and seemingly more insidious methods of ...

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