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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp plans to bid for French nuclear group Areva's power distribution and transmission equipment unit, four sources with direct knowledge of the situation said, in a deal that could cost it more than $5 billion.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp plans to bid for French nuclear group Areva's power distribution and transmission equipment unit in a deal that could cost it more than 500 billion yen ($5.4 billion), industry sources said.

Beijing (AP) -- The executive who led Google Inc.'s expansion in China after being hired away from Microsoft Corp. following a high-profile court battle is leaving to start his own business, the U.S. search engine announced Friday....

TABLE: The Top 100 THE EPIC TRAVAILS OF BIG financial INSTITUTIONS over the past year have been a windfall for America's small, independent investment advisors. With giants like Merrill Lynch taking huge hits to their reputations from the credit crisis, investors have been decamping to smaller outfits in large numbers. Advisors, too, have been jumping from the major Wall Street houses to independent outfits or hanging out their own shingles. Result: Some $200 billion flowed into the independents last year, bringing their total assets under management to about $2 trillion. Fully half of that new money moved from Street firms, says Tiburon Strategic Advisors, a California-based research firm. The rise of the small fry is apparent in Barron's annual listing of the top 100 independent advisors, (see table, 'Top 100'). The ranking, including both registered independent advisors, or RIAs, and advisors at boutique brokerages, features 41 new names and a new No. 1, Ric Edelman of Fairfax,