Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) may buy a unit of United Technologies (NYSE: UTX). (Reuters)
More factories move to the United States as China’s manufacturing costs rise. (Reuters)
The CEOs of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung continue to disagree on the value of disputed patents. (Reuters)
Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) says earnings were hurt by falling orders. (Reuters)
A number of bank traders are being investigated over Libor rigging. (WSJ)
PMI data for China drops in July but the pace slowed. (WSJ)
ShopRunner hires ex-Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson. (WSJ)
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) to fire 1,300 workers. (WSJ)
Fairfax Financial Holdings increases its stake in Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) to almost 10%. (WSJ)
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announce their trials of Alzheimer’s drug bapineuzumab failed. (WSJ)
McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) second-quarter earnings fall because of the economy. (WSJ)
VMWare (NYSE: VMW) buys Nicira for about $1.26 billion. (WSJ)
Citigroup (NYSE: C) Chairman Michael E. O’Neill becomes more involved in the firm’s daily activity. (WSJ)
The deputy chairman of Barclays (NYSE: BCS) says he will not seek the chairman’s role. (NYT)
Newsweek and The Daily Beast are dumped by the Harman family, leaving them to count on investment from IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI). (NYT)
Moody’s warns on the sovereign debt ratings of Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. (FT)
News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) and AT&T (NYSE: T) build tablets for educational purposes. (FT)
SAP’s (NYSE: SAP) profits rise on a sharp increase in software demand. (Bloomberg)
Corn crops in southern Europe are damaged by heat, as are those in the United States. (Bloomberg)
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