* Foreign companies are learning that they can no longer count on China for earnings growth. As companies report first-quarter results, big-equipment makers like Caterpillar Inc and ABB Ltd see slowing demand, while consumer-focused Apple Inc and Starbucks Corp surge ahead.
* Dewey & LeBoeuf's former chairman was stripped of his remaining leadership roles, as Greenberg Traurig called off discussions of a possible deal with the struggling law firm.
* Hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone agreed to step aside eventually as the public face of his LightSquared Inc venture, a concession that may keep the wireless-telecommunications company from defaulting on its debt.
* It was just one airplane, but the Boeing Co jetliner that rolled out of an enormous factory here had a lot riding on it.
The 787 Dreamliner that left the assembly building Friday was the first plane completed at a plant that has shifted the dynamics of U.S. aircraft manufacturing and is pivotal to the company's most ambitious production increase since Boeing started delivering jetliners in 1958.
* A Google Inc engineer told others at the company about his plan to scoop up personal information from wireless-network users as specially equipped cars drove by their homes, but the practice continued for two years after the internal disclosures, a Federal Communications Commission investigation found.
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