| UNITED STATES  WASHINGTON USA: President Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour next month, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary released on Monday (20 May) bypasses Kenya, an ancestral homeland. 21 May 2013 11:32UNITED STATES  NEW YORK, USA: Yahoo! is to buy blogging platform Tumblr for US$1.1bn. It said on Monday (20 May) that the two companies "share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas." 21 May 2013 07:19UNITED STATES  NEW YORK, USA: US computer company Dell said last week its quarterly profits plunged 79% from a year ago, as a shift away from personal computers hammered the company's bottom line. 20 May 2013 09:08UNITED STATES  NEW YORK, USA: Corporate raider Carl Icahn and other investors made a new offer last week for US computer giant Dell, calling a planned private equity buyout led by company founder Michael Dell a "giveaway". 13 May 2013 07:10UNITED STATES  SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla Motors said on Wednesday it posted its first-ever quarterly profit as the electric carmaker beat its own forecasts and surprised market analysts. 10 May 2013 08:02UNITED STATES  SHANGHAI, CHINA: Chinese authorities have approved a US$1.3bn General Motors plan to make luxury Cadillac cars, the US auto giant said on Tuesday (7 May) as it seeks to boost sales of its premium brand cars in the world's biggest vehicle market. 8 May 2013 08:24UNITED STATES  WASHINGTON, USA: Global sales of tablet computers climbed in the first quarter of 2013, led by Android-powered devices that outpaced gains by Apple's iPads, a research firm said on Wednesday (1 May). 2 May 2013 08:19
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