Ford ouster ruling should stand complainant contends in court filing
Mayor Rob Ford speaks to media at city hall following a court decision granting him a stay in Toronto, Ontario Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. The decision allows him to remain in office while lawyers argue ...
View ArticleSears Canada shopping for new finance chief
Sears Canada Inc. is looking for a new chief financial officer to fill a position coming open early in the new year.Sharon Driscoll, who has been CFO for the national retailer since December 2010, ...
View ArticleGulf leaders call for unity closer economy
AFP © <p>Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (C) leaves a meeting of foreign ministers on the eve of the annual GCC summit in the Bahraini capital of Manama, on ...
View ArticleGlobal Flu Pandemic Inevitable Expert Warns
A new global flu pandemic within the next couple years is inevitable, one prominent flu vaccine manufacturer says. Joseph Kim, head of Inovio Pharmaceuticals, which is currently working on a ...
View ArticleAmerican Railcar Industries gets $200 million loan for railcar lease fleet
American Railcar Industries Inc. has completed a $199.8 million financing of its railcar lease fleet through its newly formed subsidiary, Longtrain Leasing I LLC. The debt is secured by a portfolio ...
View ArticleTexas economy continued to grow in October
Texas economy may have hit its highest level in four year during the month of October, according to Comerica Banks Texas Economic Activity Index. But will this economic growth continue? The October ...
View ArticleHoly See Releases Papal Message for World Day of Peace
Emphasizes Role of Peacemakers as Promoters of Life in Its Fullest ExpressionVATICAN CITY, DEC. 14, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for ...
View ArticleEconomic package of Northern Cyprus presented to Erdogan
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday received Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Prime Minister Irsen Kucuk at a meeting which was closed to the press corps in Ankara. During the ...
View ArticleMore Microsoft Behind an 8 ball | Jon Talton
many comments . My "takeaway," as they say in corporate America, can be boiled down to: Plenty of cash and talent, poor management since "BillG" stepped away, more fragile than ...
View ArticleAttempt to update global Internet treaty reveals rift
The International Telecommunication Union, the little-known but influential United Nations agency that oversees phone, radio and satellite communications, last week stopped short of fragmenting the ...
View ArticleIntel smartphone chips as energy-efficient as competitors report
In a milestone that is expected to help Intel's push into the smartphone and tablet markets, the Santa Clara, California tech giant finally has made its brainy microchips as energy-efficient as ...
View ArticleProtection and prevention around the world
/enpproperty--> Legislation on personal information, prevention of junk electronic information and real-name systems for telecommunication services in other ...
View ArticleWarning issued over global economy risks
/enpproperty--> A sluggish global economy will pose challenges and policies must be tailored to address the risks, a top think tank said on Monday. "The global economy will experience low ...
View ArticleRussian Railways has one of highest levels of freight turnover in world
MOSCOW, December 24 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Railways has one of the highest levels of freight turnover in the world, the company’s President Vladimir Yakunin ...
View ArticleMicrosoft veteran strategy officer stepping down
AFP © <p>Microsoft announced on Monday that company veteran Craig Mundie, pictured here at a summit in Honolulu on November 12, 2011, has stepped down from his post as chief of research ...
View ArticleDont Burden the Energy Industry With New Taxes
opposes the pick-winners-and-losers tax policies of President Obama and his allies in Congress. Selectively stripping oil and gas companies of provisions that other industries use-like the Section ...
View ArticleBest of 2012 Among top congressional stock picks Microsoft beats Apple
Editor's note: As 2012 comes to an end, we are running some of the year's most-read stories from the Puget Sound Business Journal and TechFlash websites. This story originally ran Feb. ...
View ArticleGrowth in Eagle Ford region spurring demand for health care services
South Texas counties may be experiencing a boom in oil-and-gas activity thanks to the prolific Eagle Ford Shale. However, with the recent rise in employment in these counties just south of San ...
View ArticleSouth Africa World watches Nelson Mandelas struggle
FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2012 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, meets with former South Africa President Nelson Mandela, 94, at his home in Qunu, South Africa. There ...
View ArticlePolice find mobile meth lab in Pa. Wal-Mart lot
POTTSVILLE, Pa. Shoppers doing some last-minute Christmas shopping at a Wal-Mart in eastern Pennsylvania came across an unusual scene. Members of a state police emergency team say a van was stocked ...
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