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United Airlines restarting Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights
Boeing 787s back in the air.The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane and a fire on another.The incidents never caused any serious injuries. But the January grounding ...
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BBC Admits No Global Warming For 15 Years
May 20, 2013 Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. Since 1998, there has been an unexplained ';standstill'; in the heating of the Earth’s atmosphere. Writing in Nature Geoscience, the researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in the coming decades. But long-term, the expected ...
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Hasina Government Attaches No Value to Peoples Lives and Turns them into Slaves of Greedy Global Capitalism
This tragic incident and other similar incidents such as the Tazreen Fashion factory fire in November last year reveal the extent of the corruption of the existing system in Bangladesh, the ruling coalition government of Hasina, which includes the ...
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Pascoe heads seven-strong New Zealand team for IPC World Swimming Championships
May 20 - Six-time Paralympic champion Sophie Pascoe has been named to head a seven-strong New Zealand team going to the 2013 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships in Montreal in ...
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Shanghai court takes swipe at POS industry
According to Chinese media reports, last week the Songjiang District People's Court in Shanghai ruled against a local woman surnamed Zhou who sued her bank over 44,000 yuan ($7,163) which she claimed was illegally siphoned out of her account using a cloned card.The court reportedly shot down the case after Zhou could not offer adequate evidence to prove that her bank card had been ...
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Tesco eyes China JV
Tesco, Britain's largest retailer, plans to establish a joint venture in China, a bid to control its capital expenditure in global expansion, the Financial Times reported Monday. The supermarket chain that came here in 2004 is seeking partners in China for the venture, the report said, citing three sources close to the matter. Analysts said China Resources Company is the most suitable ...
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Thai economy contracts in Q1
Thailand's economy shrank 2.2 percent in the three months to March from the previous quarter - the first contraction in more than a year - as manufacturing output fell, official data showed Monday.The decline followed a blistering yearlong recovery from devastating floods in late 2011 that hit major factories north of the capital Bangkok and caused a double-digit drop in GDP.On a ...
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Wal-Mart Fattens Up On Poor America With 25 Of U.S. Grocery Sales
in my May 1 blog , sits atop the mountain. But if limits on a family purse trump the desire for fancier and healthy organic and fresh farm items, what choices remain? For most Americans the answer is one of the greatest growth stories in capitalist history, a company whose growth metronomic remains solid in virtually all economic conditions. As they increasingly shop there, they contribute to ...
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Leveraged Finance Volume Hits $25B As High Yield Takes Charge
Leveraged finance volume in the U.S. for the week ended May 16 was a healthy $24.8 billion, according to S&P Capital IQ/LCD. The activity was paced by a frenetic bond market, which saw $13.2 billion in issuance through Thursday. That's the second-busiest week of the year, behind the $17 billion seen the week ended March 21. It's also the first time in 2013 weekly bond issuance has ...
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Can Best Buys Turnaround Efforts Lift Earnings
Best Buy will announce its Q1 results on May 20. We expect the company to report better year-over-year revenues largely due to its price matching policy. However, margins could come in lower due to aggressive pricing, which will weigh on ...
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Google Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association
IDG News Service - After being accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog, the European Privacy Association (EPA) has confirmed that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are backers. The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), which works to expose privileged access in E.U. policy making, said in a complaint Thursday that the European Privacy Association is working to represent industry ...
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Market and Economy What the Fed Misses
Whatever course it chooses, the Federal Reserve will have to grapple with the reality that while its policies have helped levitate stocks, they've been considerably less effective at expanding the economy. While rising equity prices help add to total growth, the stock market is not the economy. The U.S. economy, rather, is propelled by consumption, which accounts for about 70 percent ...
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Investigation Into Oil Industry Price Rigging Mirrors LIBOR Scandal
widely-known yet unaddressed problem. That investigation hit a peak with last Tuesday's raids of British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, and Statoil offices. By the end of the week, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) asked the U.S. Justice Department ...
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With end of Afghan war in sight Europe pushes business
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The European Union threw its weight behind developing Afghanistan's small but promising private sector this week, in the hope that business can usher in stability and peace once foreign troops leave by the end of next ...
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Outside the Box Can you learn to be ethical in business
American business schools are lining up to show accreditors and anyone else interested that their students are well-grounded in ethics and social ...
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Qihoo 360 Technology up 7 after earnings beat
Critical Alerts For Blackberry, Pandora Media, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Barnes & Noble, and Qihoo 360 Technology Released By ...
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Dubai Among World’s Top 5 Hottest Retail Destinations
London is the world's most important destination for international retailers, followed closely by Dubai, according to the annual CBRE report. ';How Global is the Business of Retail'; report by the global commercial real estate service and investment firm, CBRE, was released today, pointing out the hottest twenty retail destinations in the ...
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LG Boasts the Worlds First Unbreakable Smartphone
The device sporting this new screen recently made an appearance and bears a striking resemblance to the LG Optimus G Pro smartphone, according to 9to5 Google. The phone is mostly made of plastic and is quite bendable and flexible. The company claims it does not have a breaking point.This is a bold claim for LG. Sonim, another company that once believed it had created an unbreakable phone invited ...
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World War II graduates go to prom 70 years later
New Haven's Hillhouse High School class of 1943 never had a prom because of World War II. But finally, after a 70-year wait, classmates gathered to celebrate and ...
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Microsofts new Xbox to challenge Apple to Facebook in games
Amazon.com Inc. , which are introducing new software and devices for gaming. Microsoft's updated Xbox will use its Kinect sensor that can recognize faces and movements. The deice will also recommend content based on users' interests. The new Xbox will be in stores by the year's ...
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Lampard I have not performed at World Cups
Yet Lampard revealed he is disappointed not to have tasted similar success with England, and feels he has not performed to a sufficient standard at FIFA World Cups and UEFA European ...
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Experts officials China has resumed hacking U.S. companies agencies
Computer security experts and U.S. officials say Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on companies and agencies they stole data from three months ago. A unit of China's People's Liberation Army had stopped computer intrusions in February after the administration of ...
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IPO involving Denvers Global Technology Resources called off
Greg Byles, CEO, and Glenn Smith, president, at Global Technology Resources Inc. in a 2010 photo. An initial public offering that would have led to the merger of Denver-based Global Technology Resources Inc. (GTRI) with two other companies has been called off. The IPO had been planned as a way to merge GTRI, an IT consulting firm, with San Francisco-based FusionStorm and Claremont, N.H.-based ...
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Why is Africas healthcare so far behind the rest of the world
As a continent, Africa won't achieve most of its health-related Millennium Development Goals. Cash and access continue to be major impediments to healthcare in the ...
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GSA seeks industry input on incorporating cyber standards into contracting
The General Services Administration, in a request for information issued Monday, is seeking input from the private sector on ways the government can improve its cybersecurity by including security standards in federal contracts. The RFI "is an important first step to a public private partnership that will help secure our nations infrastructure," acting GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini ...
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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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