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* Vodafone Group, the world’s largest wireless company, plans to buy a 35% stake in Mexico’s No. 2 wireless telephone company, Grupo Iusacell, for $973 million, the Mexican company said. London-based Vodafone reached an accord with the Peralta family and other individual investors to buy their stakes in Iusacell, which is controlled by Verizon Communications, the No. 1 U.S. local telephone company, according to a filing with the Mexican Stock Exchange.

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* Computer Sciences Corp. said it won a contract worth about $45 million over eight years to provide simulation services for the U.S. Army. El Segundo-based Computer Sciences and 10 other companies won orders worth about $4 billion to provide simulations of war games at the Army’s Training and Instrumentation Command in Orlando, Fla., a company spokesman said.

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* Iomega Corp., the maker of popular Zip and Jaz removable computer storage devices, said it expects its fourth-quarter profit and revenue will be below estimates on lower Zip drive sales and higher advertising costs.

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