Ubuntu Mobile Shows The Way For The Whole CE Industry
Heading to your mobile phone? (Photo credit: Andrew Mason) Looking for a signpost to the rest of 2013 and beyond? That would be the news from the smartphone front today, disguised as two bits of ...
View ArticleBusiness leaders more optimistic Britain can avoid triple-dip recession
George Osborne's approval rating among business leaders has fallen to just 11% - from a peak of 54% in 2011. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ...
View ArticleLife Insights from a 100-Year-Old Manufacturing Worker
Vita Needle in Needham, Mass., recently, the NewsHour team met Rosa Finnegan. The company is known for its elderly workforce with its average worker 74 year old. But at 100, Finnegan is the oldest. ...
View ArticleMicrosoft acquisition reportedly why Krikorian left Amazon board
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft has acquired id8 Group R2 Studios, which was co-founded by Blake Krikorian. Krikorian abruptly stepped down from his position on the Amazon board ...
View ArticleShareholder activist as corporate superhero
Video: Obama praises deal, says there's more to be done Within a few months, however, Mr. Ackman was able to persuade shareholders that poor management and inadequate board oversight had allowed ...
View ArticleGrounded rig Shells latest Arctic setback
A handout photo of the Kulluk aground southeast of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska, Jan. 1, 2013. The grounding was only the latest of problems Shell has run into seeking to drill north of Alaska. (PETTY ...
View ArticleUQ researchers produce worldsfirst transgenic sweet sorghu...
Dr Anshu Raghuwanshi, a Research Fellow in UQ's School of Biological Sciences, said sorghum had advantages as a biofuel crop, but until now, tissue culture steps in the gene transfer process had ...
View ArticleReligare retains hold rating on Manappuram Finance
Manappuram Finance with a target price of Rs 38. While the company remains confident on underlying demand, near-term growth is likely to disappoint ...
View ArticleHawaii’s growing economy likely to offset effect of payroll tax increase
Nearly every employee in Hawaii will see their take-home pay take a 2 percent cut, thanks to the payroll tax reductions that expired on Tuesday. The tax package passed by Congress prevents 99 ...
View ArticleBoeing to release fourth quarter results on January 30
Jan 02, 2013 CHICAGO, Ill. - The Boeing Company will release its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012 at 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, January 30. Boeing Capital Corp. results ...
View ArticleFDLE clears Sheriff Demings of misconduct in crime-stats reporting
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has cleared Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings of manipulating statistics to make the crime rate look lower, documents released Wednesday show.Demings' ...
View ArticleMicrosoft acquires start-up id8 source
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp bought start-up id8 Group R2 Studios Inc as it looks to expand further in technology focused on the home and entertainment, a person familiar with the ...
View ArticleEnerG2 raises $9.4M to start manufacturing high-tech batteries in Oregon
Seattle-based high-performance battery company EnerG2 has raised nearly $9.4 million in new funding, the company announced Wednesday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In ...
View ArticleAl-Jazeera acquires Current TV
Arab television network Al-Jazeerasaid on Wednesday it will buy Current TV, the cable channel founded by Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt in 2005, for undisclosed terms.The acquisitioncould ...
View ArticleOilsands rail proposal illustrates growing demand industry group says
Alison Redford’s cabinet is expected to decide in January whether the government will spend $10 million to study the idea of building a rail line to ship oilsands products from northern Alberta ...
View ArticleEmirates on track to become worlds second largest airline
Fast growing UAE carrier, Emirates is on track to overtake Delta Air Lines this year and claim the title of the world’s second largest airline. According to research conducted by the CAPA ...
View ArticleAutomotive RD Born at BMW Factory
Those iPod and iPhone adapters that are now standard equipment in nearly every modern car were born out of a "what if" idea by BMW engineers in Silicon Valley in 2003. Then in 2007 they ...
View ArticleFiscal Cliff Deal Spurs Global Financial Market Rally
World financial markets jumped Wednesday after US lawmakers agreed on a deal to head off massive austerity measures, but analysts warned of the risk of renewed volatility as Congress and President ...
View ArticleMeet the Chinese businessman who gave daughter 100 mln pounds dowry
A wealthy Chinese business tycoon has bestowed over a billion Yuan as dowry for his daughter's marriage. Wu Duanbiao, chairman of ceramics firm Fujian Wanli Group, gave his daughter a gigantic 100 ...
View ArticleDonald Trump criticizes Republicans as being worst negotiators in history...
American business magnate Donald Trump has criticized Republicans, tweeting that they 'may be the worst negotiators in history'. The real estate mogul's harsh words for the GOP concerned the ...
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