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The latest high-profile data breach has injected allegations of political sabotage into the Democratic race for president.
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The big changes won’t happen till oil prices rise.

The S&P and Dow had their worst two-day performance since Sept. 1, while indexes posted losses for the week. “It’s a confluence of all the factors: oil prices continuing to run down, the Chinese trying to counteract the dollar and everyone is digesting, globally, what the Fed’s announcement means for emerging markets and everything else,” said J.J. Feldman, portfolio manager at Miracle Mile Advisors in Los Angeles. The week was dominated by the Fed, which raised rates on Wednesday for the first time in nearly a decade.

The California Air Resources Board said on Friday it was extending a deadline to approve or reject a diesel emissions repair plan submitted by Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) for nearly 500,000 2.0 liter vehicles until Jan. 14. On Nov. 20, VW submitted a repair plan to the Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resources Board for 482,000 diesel Jetta, Beetle, Passat and Golf cars built between 2009 and 2015 with software that allows them to emit up to 40 times the legally allowable pollution in real-world driving.

Raytheon Co (RTN.N) has won a contract worth up to $2.35 billion to build 52 SM-3 Block IB missiles for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency using fiscal 2015 funding, plus three one-year options, the Pentagon said on Friday. The contract finalizes a preliminary contract for 44 SM-3 Block IB missiles awarded to Raytheon in April with a value of $541 million and adds eight missiles for a total of 52, the Defense Department said in its daily digest of arms contracts. The U.S. and Romanian governments on Friday said work had been completed on a new U.S.

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The social media king’s ad sales continue to grow, and a recent industry report makes it clear why it should continue to impress.

The CRM specialist may be expanding its focus beyond software to become a platform company.