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FORT COLLINS, CO (MARKET WIRE) Woodward Governor Company (NASDAQ: WGOV) today announced that it expects to close on the previously announced agreement to acquire the HR Textron business from Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) on April 2, 2009.

Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone said that the company has hired a product manager to develop accounts for businesses that would have more features but would cost a fee to use, the Wall Street Journal reported.

2:47 p.m. March 26, 2009 Wall Street got positive news on Thursday from corporate america. Best Buy Co., ConAgra Foods Inc., and Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. all turned in quarterly results that be...

NEW YORK ? Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Best Buy Co., up $4.21 at $37.67 Fourth-quarter ...

The Jones Co. and Crye-Leike Realtors are dedicating a green Habitat for Humanity home on Friday for a Spring Hill family.

QATAR. Woqod is planning to commission nine petrol stations this year, thus totaling 13 stations wholly owned the company.

The investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission into an alleged $8bn fraud at the Stanford group of companies is gathering pace as a top executive moved to co-operate with the regulator

SHANGHAI, March 27 (Reuters) - Yunnan Aluminium Co Ltd ( 000807.SZ ) plans to raise up to 1.2 billion yuan ($175.6 million) to fund an alumina project through a private placement of domestically listed A-shares, the company said on Friday. Yunnan ...

Former Guantánamo Bay detainee welcomes inquiry and promises his co-operationFormer Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed has welcomed the announcement that the Metropolitan police have been called in to investigate whether MI5 agents were complicit in his torture, and promised to co-operate with the inquiry.The attorney general, Lady Scotland, said in a written statement (pdf) today that she had given the allegations of possible criminal wrongdoing 'very serious consideration' and felt there were sufficient grounds to launch a criminal investigation. But she stopped short of conceding a full judicial inquiry, which many critics have demanded.Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born UK resident, said on his release in February that he had been 'tortured in medieval ways' since his detention in 2002.'I'm very pleased that there's going to be an independent investigation,' he told the Guardian today. 'I remain concerned that the investigations shouldn't just focus on the small people and that one age

MENLO PARK, CA--(Marketwire - March 26, 2009) - Neuraltus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company developing proprietary small molecule drugs for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced the completion of $17 million in Series A financing.Co-investing in the Series A funding are Latterell Venture Partners of San Francisco, CA, VantagePoint Venture...