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The Bloomington, Ill.-based company says the hiring will replace positions it has left open as the country's economy struggled the past few years.

A federal appeals court says a former in-house lawyer for the Japanese automaker must pay $2.6 million for disclosing confidential information.

Shares of the cosmetics company fell after the beauty products company issued a fiscal third-quarter earnings forecast well below Wall Street's expectations.

The nation's biggest meat company says its fiscal first-quarter profit fell by nearly half from last year as higher feed costs cut into the company's profit margins. 

The move is in response to a court ruling sought by the cellphone maker that Apple should not be using its mobile technology in the devices without a license.