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Indian American Vivek Ranadive buys US basketball team
Indian American software magnate Vivek Ranadive, who has become the first person of Indian descent to become the owner of a major US basketball team, plans to build the Sacramento Kings into a global brand. "It's going to be exciting," he told the USA Today after securing an agreement to buy 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family for a National Basketball Association (NBA) ...
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Microsoft warns about rise in computer viruses worldwide
A Microsoft security expert said that computer viruses are on a rise worldwide once again after years of being less popular amongst computer attackers. In a report by Fox news, the security expert Tim Rains said that although viruses were less chosen to attack systems by hackers nowadays as they used other forms of threats, but recently Microsoft security has observed that viruses are on a rise ...
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New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft
Reuters © Visitors play with Microsoft's Xbox 360 consoles at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo, September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Kim ...
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Of Course The PlayStation 4 Has More Buzz Than Microsofts New Xbox
ony PlayStation 4 Riding Wave Of Twice The Social Media Buzz Of New Microsoft Xbox ." In it, he speaks to social media tracking expert Jen Handley of Fizziology, who says that across sites from Twitter to Tumblr ...
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Is Gawkers Rob Ford Crackstarter Crowdfundings Jump-The-Shark Moment
Gawker posted a piece by John Cooke detailing how the publication came to be offered a video of what was claimed to be Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack. Cooke journeyed to TO, met with some shady characters and saw the video footage with his own eyes. The video's owners ...
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How the Ex-Presidents Club Is Making the World Better
There are now 13 presidential libraries. From the beginning, these institutions have been grand storehouses of history. But in recent years, they've also become home bases for former presidents' efforts to make the world better.That's the context for the George W. Bush Presidential Center. It will be an archive and a museum, certainly, but it will also be a hub for the former ...
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May 18 1961 Industry business and government leaders launch goodwill tour of central Alberta
Representatives of Edmonton industry and business, the Alberta government and the City of Edmonton boarded a Friendship Train on a goodwill tour of central Alberta.The train arrived in Red Deer for the official opening of the city's new Riverside Industrial development.The area was the result of a combined effort of the city, the railway and Red Deer businessmen.Fred Middleton, a Calgary ...
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Earnings policy moves to define course of market Alchemy Capital
Nikunj Dalmia: Characterise the market environment for us. week ago or I would say 10 days ago everyone had written an obituary for Indian markets. Now looks like the carnival has ...
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Omar seeks relief package for quake-hit people
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and requested a special package for earthquake-hit districts of Doda and Kishtawar in Jammu ...
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Shares of construction companies outperform in one month
GMR Infrastructure and Jaiprakash Associates gained 14.18%, 12.94%, 10.51% and 10.42% respectively among shares of other construction companies. ET construction index that represents construction sector has reported gains of 13.12% during the same period, ...
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Peregrine Corporation plans to open Krispy Kreme doughnut outlets
TOTING a box of glazed Krispy Kreme doughnuts from across the border has been a rite of passage for many frequent flyers returning to South Australia. But addicts of the treats won't have to travel interstate for their fix for much longer. Peregrine Corporation - owners of the On The Run fuel/retail outlets - has revealed advanced plans to open SA's first Krispy Kreme outlets, creating ...
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At EVE Fanfest players celebrate a different world
"This stuff matters." Jon Lander, the executive producer of CCP Games' EVE Online, tells me this during an interview on the first proper day of the company's Fanfest 2013 event in Reykjavik, Iceland last month. He doesn't seem to mean much by it and at the time I took it as a throwaway comment. We were in the midst of a larger conversation about monetization and his ...
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Chidambaram to meet Qatar business leaders
Seeking to enhance bilateral trade and cooperation, Finance Minister P Chidambaram will hold discussions with Qatar's Minister of Economy and Finance Yousuf Hussain Kamal and interact with business leaders at Doha on ...
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Mozambique Vietnam - Mozambique Business Forum
Maputo - The Embassy of the Republic of Mozambique and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized a Vietnam-Mozambique Business Forum, which will be held in the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, on June 11 and 13, 2013, respectively. The Centre for Promotion (CPI), in coordination with the CTA, the Cabinet of Accelerated Development Economic Zones (GAZEDA), the Institute for Export ...
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Ryder Cup players into last 8 at World Match Play
KAVARNA, Bulgaria -; Ryder Cup-winning teammates Graeme McDowell, Nicolas Colsaerts and Francesco Molinari are through to the quarterfinals of the World Match Play ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to address Indian industry and students
Business India News: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to address Indian industry, students. In his first ever visit to India after becoming the Chinese Premier, is expected to address Indian industry and sign a series of agreements on business cooperation in ...
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Federal finance watchdog ignores spending limit at gala dinner
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, May 2, 2013. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN ...
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Colsaerts advances at World Match Play champs
Defending champion Nicolas Colsaerts beat Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano to progress to the quarter-finals of the Volvo World Match-Play Championship. Photo by Andrew ...
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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah expands ministry leaves out mining-tainted aspirants
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday inducted 28 members into his five-day-old ministry, keeping out two strong but mining-scam hit aspirants for cabinet berths.The two are former working president of the state Congress D.K. Shivakumar from Kanakapura and mining baron Anil Lad from iron-ore rich Bellary district.Anil's cousin Santosh Lad, who is also into mining, however made ...
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Liberia Woman Faints - During Police Sand Mining Raid
A woman who claimed to be owner of molded blocks Thursday fainted in the hands of residents of the 11TH Street Community after police confiscated several pieces of her blocks in a sand mining raid instituted by the Ministry of Lands and Mining. "Please don't carry my blocks. I have documents to prove that I molded these blocks from river sand," the weeping woman said as she ...
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IMS Conducts Manufacturing Research Workshop at SCRA’s Applied Research Center
Following the International Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Steering Committee meeting to be held today, the IMS will conduct a manufacturing research workshop at SCRA’s Applied Research Center on Friday, May ...
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New Report Analyzes Chemical Industry in the UK
High demand helped to lift profits for the UK chemical producers in the last couple of years, and experts say that this trend will continue in 2009. Indicators of the performance of the UK chemical industry were up sharply in 2007 and 2008. The trade picture also improved for the UK chemical industry in 2007 and 2008. The strong demand and operating rates made the year profitable for chemical ...
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Denver Business Journal wins 33 awards in 4-state Society of Professional Journalists news competition
The DBJ's award-winning coverage of the 2012 election. The Denver Business Journal staff has won 33 awards, including 13 first-place honors, in a four-state Society of Professional Journalists competition. The SPJ's "Top of the Rockies" awards for excellence in newspaper, digital and broadcast news were presented Friday night at the Denver Press Club. The Journal won nearly twice ...
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Canadas Tech Industry Hoping To Capitalize On US Visa Woes
A Canadian invasion of sorts is underway in the US, but it isn't a military operation - rather, it's an attempt to convince Silicon Valley tech workers frustrated with ...
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YouTube involved in conspiracy to silence public debate on corporate patents on human genes
Natural News May 18, 2013 YouTube, owned by corporate giant Google, has banned our video discussing the corporate ownership of patents on human genes. This video, which featured nothing more than myself and Robert Scott Bell criticizing Angelina Jolie for hyping up BRCA breast cancer gene tests and being part of the trillion-dollar industry of ';human genomics'; apparently ran afoul ...
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Shipping Wars: Uruguay and Argentina face off over rival port expansion plans
Argentina and Uruguay both want to be the shipping hubs of South America, or southern South America at least, and both are planning to considerably expand their port infrastructure in Buenos Aires and Montevideo respectively, which is leading to considerable diplomatic strain.
Argentina is a regional power in South America, the country is considered one of the more developed nations on the continent on-par with Uruguay (on paper at least, with a similar per capita income and Human Development Index rating) although the country occupies a majority of the continent with Brazil and presides over a massive coastline. Read more
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