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* ChevronTexaco Corp. and partners will invest $1.5 billion to expand an oil pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea, enabling the central Asian state to export more crude and natural gas.

* EMC Corp. grabbed the lead as the world’s top seller of data storage computers last year, stealing sales from Hewlett-Packard Co., research firm IDC said. EMC won 21% of the market and HP fell to 19%.