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In response to my recent column on patients trusting doctors too much, several readers wrote in about the difficulty of finding or sifting through information on doctors and diseases. Many asked for suggestions, so a couple of weeks ago I contacted several nationally respected leaders in family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, oncology, surgery and anesthesia and asked them to share their advice on researching doctors and diseases.

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NEW DELHI — The Indian outsourcing company Satyam was struggling on Thursday to determine the extent of a financial fraud that left it fighting for survival as investors began to search for ways to recoup their losses.

“We have launched a process to ascertain Satyam’s financial condition, particularly its liquidity position,” the interim chief executive, Ram Mynampati, said. On Wednesday, Satyam’s chairman, [Read more →]

LAS VEGAS — Seeking to revive its sharply fallen fortunes and produce a successor to its aging Treo device, Palm unveiled a sleek new smartphone, the Pre, on Thursday and an exclusive partnership with Sprint to distribute it.

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NEW DELHI — Ramalinga Raju was contrite, sort of.

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Ramalinga Raju resigned from the outsourcing company he helped found, Satyam Computer Services, after an accounting scandal.

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It’s a new year, all right, but economically, it still feels a lot like the old one. Seems that everywhere you look, things are being downsized: companies, paychecks, parties, trade shows and on and on. People aren’t just tightening their belts; they’re punching new holes in them.

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ONE year from now, almost to the day, will mark the 10th anniversary of the announcement of what could be the worst corporate marriage in history, the union of America Online and Time Warner.

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And still the effects are being sifted.

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The long-troubled arrangement to install wireless Internet networks in Central Park and other New York City parks has quietly collapsed after the contractor, Wi-Fi Salon, ran out of money because it could not find corporate sponsors.

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has yet to relent, but he conceded that he might be losing the battle to keep his independent lifeline to the outside world.

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Barack Obama and his beloved BlackBerry, which he is fighting to retain.

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The CBS Corporation reached a new deal on Tuesday to be paid for something that has long been free: access to its shows by cable companies.

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CBS and Time Warner Cable announced a pact that includes higher fees for CBS and Showtime, its sibling premium channel, and that makes available CBS shows for Time Warner Cable’s video-on-demand [Read more →]

SAN FRANCISCO — Even after sharply reducing its outlook for the fourth quarter, the Intel Corporation, the chip maker, said Wednesday that it would miss its revenue projection by about $500 million, a sign that PC makers and buyers are being more tightfisted than it seemed only two months ago.

Intel shares fell nearly 5 percent.

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