Pandora Internet Radio to go Silent?

If you haven't used Pandora.com yet, this might be your last chance. Pandora, aka the Music Genome Project, helps you find music you like, no download needed; just go to the site and type in the name of a song or...

Oil Companies Escape Billions in Royalty Payments to Americans; Drilling Expa...

"Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program A bureaucratic oversight has allowed 24 oil companies to avoid more than $1.3 billion in royalties for the privilege of extracting oil and natural gas from U.S. territory in the Gulf of Mexico - with...

Most firms pay no income taxes - Congress

Study finds that the majority of domestic and foreign corporations in the United States avoid paying federal income taxes."NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Nearly two-thirds of U.S. companies and 68% of foreign corporations do not pay federal income taxes, according to a...

More airlines charges are ahead for summer travellers

As if it isn't already really expensive to fly now, another US airline, JetBlue Airways, is now going to start charging customers for pillows and blankets.This isn't all new news, as I flew on Zoom Airlines not two...

MONEYTALK: GM $15.5bn loss

  The credit crises, the petrol $4/Gln GM Sales down on record high. Pick-up trucks almost not to sell. New fuel efficient cars, german daughter Opel still doing well.New Hybrid, electric, Hydrogen cars under...

House, KPK, BPK to join forces on oil graft probe

Team up...a big project for three of the most powerful bodies start to investigate for oil and gas sector. KPK (The CORRUPTION ERADICATION COMMISSION), with outstanding achievement for solving many of corrupt issue...

User-Made Games Will Make it to Xbox Live

I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this sort of thing, but right now Microsoft is the only gaming console offering users the chance to put their own games online - and keep most of the profits.With the market penetration Microsoft has (they sold over 500 million items over the...

Rogers Customers Get Ad-Laden 404 Sites

If you're a rogers customer and you misspell the website you're looking for, you'll be sent to a page with advertisements instead of the normal '404 Not found' error. This has got plenty of customers upset, as there...

Coming soon to a plane near you... Ad space!

"Coming soon to the airline boarding pass clutched in your hot little hand: advertisements.Printing advertisements on the boarding pass is part of airlines’ continuing frantic search for new sources of revenue to offset higher fuel prices. Here’s betting it will be less...

Government relents and scraps fuel duty rise

The UK government has cancelled a planned 2p rise in fuel tax in light of the ever increasing petrol prices. However the timing to the decision, coming as it does shortly before the very important by-election in Glasgow East, has being deemed suspicious. Gordon Brown may be...

Gannett Q2 Profits Down 36%, Shares Tank (GCI)

More pain in the newspaper business today."Thanks to a write-down of nearly $3 billion, we knew Gannett (GCI) was looking at an ugly Q2. And Gannett delivered, announcing 36% earnings drop in preliminary results...

Yahoo Wields New Tool to Battle Google

"Yahoo Inc. will introduce a tool for Web developers Thursday that is designed to expand the scale of its struggling search business and help create new competitors to Google Inc. The company said the free tool will allow developers to build customized search services based...

Air for Sale:Canadian Government Sells it $3.7 billion!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAnd Canadians thought the one thing that was free, was Air? Who knew it was a Gold Mine for the Government!" Feds pulling billions out of thin air -- and it's for real By...

Web 2.0 living on borrowed money

RuhRoh. "The bad news? While a few startup stars like Twitter and Slide can get venture cash on little or no revenue, the expiration date on your "it's [blank] with a social network layer" pitch may be well past. "There is going to be a shake-out here in the next year or...

Uttarakhand:Licence fee hiked, closing time for liquor shops increased by one...

Dehradun:The State Cabinet,  approved the new Excise Policy. While the majority of the provisions of the current policy remained unchanged, it was decided to increase in the licence fee slabs to generate additional revenue to the tune of Rs 7.75 crores. the Liquor shops...

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