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* On Assignment Inc., a Calabasas-based provider of temporary healthcare and science workers, agreed to purchase Oxford Global Resources Inc. for $200 million in cash and stock to add information-technology employees.

* Cingular Wireless is raising the text-messaging rate for customers without a monthly texting plan to 15 cents per message sent or received, an increase of 5 cents.

* Intel Corp. and CinemaNow, which sells movies online, said they were working on a product to allow the legal downloading of films using Intel’s Viiv chips and software.

* Riders in as many as 5,000 New York taxicabs will be offered television news and entertainment programs under an agreement between NBC Universal Inc. and Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc.

* Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc. said it completed the acquisition of the 499-room LAX Renaissance Hotel for $65 million.