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Consumer tech industry earnings in focus (Market Watch) - SHANGHAI (MarketWatch) -- Investors in China's booming consumer technology industry will enjoy the peak of the Spring earnings season, as advertising networks, travel services, Internet portals and cellphone technology firms all line up to report first-quarter results this week.

Five Steel Stocks from Industry Maven Michelle Applebaum (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - Eli Hoffmann submits: Annotated article summary from this weekend's Barron's. Receive all our Barron's summaries by signing up here: Tracing Steel's Fiery Ascent by Sandra Ward Summary: Barron's interviews steel industry guru Michelle Applebaum, who is 'conservatively upbeat' on steel stocks.

Students Caught in Music Industry Net (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - At first, Sarah Barg thought the e-mail was a scam. Some group called the Recording Industry Association of America was accusing the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore of illegally downloading 381 songs using the school's computer network and a program called Ares.

'Broadway South' push aims to bolster theater industry in state (KATC 3 Lafayette) - Associated Press - May 13, 2007 7:04 PM ET State lawmakers are expressing support for the concept of extending a successful tax-break program for film and TV to the theater industry -- and for...

Telecom industry jittery over Maran expulsion move (IANS via Yahoo! India News) - New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) A DMK committee s recommendation Sunday night to remove Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran from the union cabinet has not gone down well with the telecom industry.

"Broadway South" push aims to bolster theater industry in state (KATC 3 Lafayette) - BATON ROUGE, La. -- Hoping to build off Louisiana's successful tax break program for the film industry, lawmakers are considering whether to extend similar tax credits to theater...

China software industry to reach $143B by 2010 (Electronic Engineering Times Asia) - China's Ministry of Information Industry forecasts that the domestic sales of the country's software companies are expected to reach $143 billion in 2010.

German firm SKN eyes local autogas industry (ABS-CBNNEWS.com) - German firm SKN is exploring the possibility of venturing into the country’s autogas industry, an energy official said. DOE director for energy utilization bureau Mario Marasigan said SKN is currently conducting a demonstration on the use of liquefied petroleum gas in tricycles.

"Broadway South" tax breaks aim to build up theater industry in Louisiana (The Houma Courier) - Hoping to build off Louisiana's successful tax break program for the film industry, lawmakers are considering whether to extend similar tax credits to theater productions in a bid to make Louisiana "Broadway South."

Defense Skirts State in Reviving Iraqi Industry (Washington Post) - Paul Brinkley, a deputy undersecretary of defense, has been called a Stalinist by U.S. diplomats in Iraq. One has accused him of helping insurgents build better bombs. The State Department has even taken the unusual step of enlisting the CIA to dispute the validity of Brinkley's work.