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Earlier this week Apple released their earnings report for the first quarter of FY2012. As we reported then, the company had its best quarter ever, bringing in $46.33 billion dollars in revenue, beating estimates by more than $8 billion.

NASA is planning to spend about half a billion dollars next year to replenish the pension fund of United Space Alliance, which supplies workers to the space shuttle program.

Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we've confirmed from multiple sources.

The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone.

BP has billed Anadarko Petroleum for more than a quarter billion dollars so far to help the British oil giant plug its blown-out well and clean up the spill.

How much good will can an apology - and half a billion dollars - buy? A lot, Goldman Sachs is hoping.

Never mind the Terminator franchise - the entire MGM studio and back catalog is up for sale, meaning that anyone with a few billion dollars can finally make that Capricorn One remake they've been dreaming of.

US banks billed their customers 24 billion dollars in penalty fees for overdrawing their accounts last year, a 35 percent increase over the previous year, a study has found.

Aug. 28 - Iceland lawmakers voted on Friday in favour of a bill to repay Britain and the Netherlands more than 5 billion dollars lost in Icelandic deposit accounts last year.