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COLUMBIA, S.C. - The board overseeing a South Carolina company that fosters technology jobs approved Thursday increasing employees' pay by $290,000 in an effort to make their salaries more competitive.

SAN FRANCISCO - Several major Silicon Valley employers are trying to settle a government investigation focused on whether they colluded to hold down their payroll expenses by restricting the recruitment of each other's employees.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Foxconn workers in China will get another pay raise in coming months, on top of an increase that just took effect in response to recent worker suicides, the company said Sunday.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, shaken by a spate of suicides at its China plants, said Wednesday it is raising the pay of workers by 30 percent, a greater increase than first planned.

MADRID - The wreckage of Spain's economic growth model stands neatly aligned on the roads leading out of Madrid - row after row of unsold houses, windows dark, for-sale signs out front.
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