1.   Baker Hughes provides products and services to oil companies worldwide to help them explore for, recover and process oil and gas.

2.   Beverage companies worldwide have targeted the Asian nation, with its huge population and potential for economic growth, as a key market for sales growth.

3.   About a dozen companies worldwide are under scrutiny by the state department for possible sanctions.

4.   Advances in microchip technology and fiber-optic communications have made affordable high technology available worldwide to small companies, he said.

5.   Chemical companies worldwide are being hurt by the turmoil in Asia as prices decline faster and further than expected, the Wall Street Journal reported.

6.   Coca-Cola Co. is consolidating its bottling among a few big companies worldwide to better direct its expansion.

7.   Companies worldwide are spending billions trying to fix the problem, and glitches are still expected.

8.   Financial services companies worldwide are joining forces to trim costs and increase revenue.

9.   For a small fee, they are retrieving financial documents on any of thousands of companies worldwide from Internet providers.

10.   For its project with Interpol, the company plans to create a broader version of NetRadar, along with an infrastructure that would let worldwide companies report attacks.