Detroit's 3 casinos show Nov. profits

Detroit's three casinos saw revenues increase 4.8 percent in November over a year ago and stay on pace to beat last year's total afterwards posting a 1 percent loss in 2009.

Microsoft Corp. won a contract to provide Web-based e-mail and other services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, making headway in efforts to gain share in the growing market for cloud computing.

Eastman Kodak Co. accused Shutterfly Inc., the Internet-based photo storage and printing company, of infringing five patents for image processing.

TJX Cos. plans to cut 4,400 jobs as it converts 91 A.J. Wright stores into T.J. Maxx, Marshalls or HomeGoods stores and closes the brand's remaining 71 locations. The goal is to concentrate management and financial resources on larger, more profitable businesses, the Framingham, Mass.