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New York real estate billionaire Stephen Ross has become majority owner of the Miami Dolphins, with Wayne Huizenga retaining a 5 percent interest.The two businessmen reached an agreement Tuesday to complete a deal forged last February. At that time Ross bought 50 percent of the franchise, Dolphin Stadium and surrounding land from Huizenga for $550 million, with an agreement that Ross would later become managing general partner.

Franklin Street Properties Corp., a Boston-based real estate investment trust, has terminated an agreement to pay $130 million for a prime downtown property in Chicago.

Ian Williams, vnunet.com, Wednesday 21 January 2009 at 15:01:00Many customers unable to access dataStorage firmSeagatehas received a raft of complaints following a firmware update that rendered many500GB hard drives in itsBarracuda7200.11 range completely inaccessible.In a thread spanning over 20 pages, Seagate customers used the firm'sofficialforum to complain about an update which, rather than fixing any previousissues, made the situation worse by making their drives inoperable.The update was supposed to address a problem in which some drives frozeduring certain I/O data transfers, causing applications to hang intermittentlyor in some cases causing the drive to fail completely.One contributor going by the username 'ZenTech' summed up the generalfeeling.'This is CRAZY. I've never dealt with something like this. I have most of myvital data backed up, but seriously this is just nuts,' he said.'I can't believe I flashed a working drive with a second firmwar

The Middle Eastern gravy train has departed Milan, and Kaká is not on it. Late Monday night - after AC Milan had agreed to the richest fee in soccer history to trade its Brazilian star to the sheiks who bankroll the English club Manchester City - came the announcement that the deal was off.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Philadelphia Phillies continued preparations for their World Series title defense by securing outfielder Shane Victorino and reliever Ryan Madson to new deals, while slugger Ryan Howard headed to arbitration.

English team says Rossoneri 'lost their nerve' after agreeing to sell former world player of the year

A Mexican billionaire is expanding his empire in the united states in a deal that could make him one of the largest shareholders of The New York Times Co.

SAP wants a federal court to make Oracle hand over records of its business arrangement with CedarCrestone, an Alpharetta, Georgia, systems integrator that provides third-party support for Oracle PeopleSoft applications.The filing was made on Jan. 16 in U.S. District Court-Northern District of California, in connection with the lawsuit Oracle filed against SAP in March 2007 . Oracle charges that SAP's now-shuttered subsidiary TomorrowNow, a provider of third-party support for Oracle's PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel applications, illegally downloaded material from Oracle's support systems and used it to woo Oracle customers.[ Keep up on the latest tech news headlines at InfoWorld News, or subscribe to the Today's Headlines newsletter. ]SAP has said that TomorrowNow workers were authorized to download materials from Oracle's site on behalf of TomorrowNow customers, but acknowledged some "inappropriate downloads" had occurred. SAP has also said that O

England players may get the chance to play in this year's Indian Premier League and not miss any Tests, BBC Sport understands.

The UN chief says he is appalled by Israeli attacks on a UN compound in Gaza after seeing the destruction for himself.