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* Jason Smathers, a former engineer at Time Warner Inc.’s America Online, pleaded guilty to charges that he stole a subscriber list that spammers used to send as many as 7 billion unsolicited e-mails.
* Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, said its fourth-quarter profit fell 21% to 361.4 billion won, or $351.6 million. Sales rose nearly 4% to 7.54 trillion won, or $7.3 billion.
* Boeing Co. won orders worth a total of $2.1 billion from Japan Airlines Corp. and Ethiopian Airlines for 737 and 787s.
* A proposed $168-million shareholder lawsuit settlement by 18 former Enron Corp. directors who oversaw the company ahead of its 2001 flameout received preliminary approval from a judge.
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