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For a third consecutive day, Honda Motor Co. found itself confronting a growing labor problem in China yesterday, as workers struck at least two auto parts suppliers and two of its car assembly plants shut down.



China - Honda - Automobile - Honda Motor Co - List of auto parts

Video game maker Quick Hit Inc. of Foxborough will unveil a multiyear deal today with the National Football League that will let the company use NFL trademarks in a new version of its online football simulation game.



National Football League - NFL - Sports - Football - American

Tip-off for game three of the NBA Finals was moments away, and Ya Chin Chang, correspondent for NBA.com/china, positioned herself on the storied parquet floor. Her cameraman followed with a 25-pound computer strapped to his back to stream the pregame show live on the Internet to millions of viewers in China.



NBA Finals - National Basketball Association - Sports - NBA - Basketball

Bye-bye, indeed, Miss American Pie. If General Motors has its way, you won’t be driving your Chevy to the levee ever again.



General Motors - Chevrolet - Recreation - Makes and Models - Autos

The former trader accused of nearly toppling France’s Societe Generale argued in court yesterday that he didn’t invent the tricks that allowed him to gamble tens of billions of dollars of the bank’s money, insisting that such practices were tolerated by management.



Société Générale - Business - Financial Services - Banks and Institutions - Banking Services

CVS Caremark Corp. said yesterday it will end rival Walgreen Co.’s participation in its retail pharmacy network starting in a month.



CVS Caremark - Walgreen - Pharmacy - Configuration Management - Tools

The New England economy has experienced broad improvement in recent months, with most businesses reporting stable to increasing activity, and some beginning to expand workforces beyond pre-recession levels and to hand out raises, according to a Federal Reserve survey released yesterday.



Federal Reserve System - New England - Economy - United States - Federal Reserve

The state issued a new salvo in its battle with health insurers yesterday, sending letters to four large firms urging them to offer low-cost medical plans for small businesses or face legal sanctions.



Business - Health insurance - Small business - Insurance - United States

After 12 years of ruling my own domain, I’ve finally abdicated. In 1998, I bought an Internet domain name, primarily because it came with a unique e-mail address. Back then, using a free Web-based e-mail service marked you as a spammer or worse, an Internet amateur. But when Google’s Gmail service came along, I found it irresistible. Early this year, ...



Google - Domain name - E-mail address - Message transfer agent - Spam

Heading off a proxy battle set to be waged at Genzyme Corp.’s annual shareholders meeting next week, the Cambridge biotechnology company has struck a deal with activist shareholder Carl C. Icahn that gives him two seats on Genzyme’s board.



Genzyme - Carl Icahn - Cambridge Massachusetts - Proxy fight - Cambridge

A third director backed by activist investor Carl C. Icahn was elected to the board of Biogen Idec Inc. yesterday during a 20-minute annual shareholders meeting that was marked by decorum and the absence of a chief executive officer.



Biogen Idec - Carl Icahn - Chief executive officer - Business - Carl C. Icahn

A security flaw in AT&T Inc.’s 3G cellular data network has revealed the e-mail addresses of thousands of people who own Apple Inc.’s popular iPad tablet computer. Among those victimized by the breach are White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, and Janet Robinson, chief executive of The New York Times Co. , which ...



Rahm Emanuel - Apple - White House Chief of Staff - Michael Bloomberg - IPad

Inventories held by wholesalers rose for a fourth straight month in April while sales rose for a 13th consecutive time.



Shrubs - Plants - Home - Gardening - Roses

BP stock sank to its lowest point in 14 years yesterday as investors feared the company would be overwhelmed by the costs of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps forcing it to cut its robust dividend to pay for the disaster.



Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - BP - Dividend - Business

Google Inc.’s top lawyer said the leading search engine is asking US and European governments to press China to lift Internet censorship, describing it as a barrier to free trade.



Google - Web search engine - Search - Internet censorship - China

Foxconn Technology Group says its customers, including Apple Inc. and Dell Inc. , will have to pay more after it increased wages in China by nearly two-thirds following a spate of suicides.



Apple - Dell - Foxconn - China - Labor

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, yesterday defended his plan to regulate Internet service providers, but a Republican lawmaker said he would try to block the effort.



Federal Communications Commission - Julius Genachowski - Internet service provider - Regulation - Business

Walt Disney Co. is shuttering five ESPN Zone restaurants, saying the economics of the business became too challenging.



Walt Disney Company - ESPN Zone - Business - Walt Disney Co - ESPN Zone restaurant

A veteran Liberty Mutual Group executive, David H. Long, 49, was promoted yesterday to president of the Boston insurance company.



Liberty Mutual Group - Insurance - Boston - Financial services - Business