They are the world's richest brothers with a combined wealth of $85bn - and they are fighting again. Two years ago, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, who control India's Reliance group of industries, accused each other...
""Votron stays on after a wave of criticismby our correspondentJune 28, 2008, 09:10 a.m.BRUSSEL/AMSTERDAM (DFT) - Fortis expects a complete breakdown of the American financial markets within days or weeks. This explains, according to the bank insurer, the series of...
"ENVIRONMENT: Mexicans Protest Canadian Mining Company By Stephen Leahy* The old city centre of Cerro de San Pedro. Credit:Ángel Caído TORONTO, Jun 28 (Tierramérica) - Residents and activists from the central...
With the change in the licensing of the Symbian operating system, something great is going to happen. Nokia has a huge userbase of the operating system, but it is not alone, by using this technology. Maybe some...
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As if their shitty service wasn't bad enough, not to be outdone by the American telecommunications giants and their illegal wire tapping, Deutsche Telekom thought it'd do some spying of it's own..,."German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom stands accused of having...
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Does this mean Katie Couric will be reviewing games now?"NEW YORK (AP) — Media and entertainment company CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash in...
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"The starting view in Google Earth. If
one were to type in an address in Denver, Colorado, USA, one can zoom in and out
from 1600 Curtis St. and watch it disappear into a satellite view of the Earth
and then zoom...
Microsoft has withdrawn its Yahoo bid and the yahoos have suffered the consequences. "With the public markets now open, we know what the damage is from Yahoo failing to reach a deal with Microsoft. With shares...
Two airlines have collided, but luckily not in the way you might think." ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp., squeezed by record high fuel prices and a slowing economy,...
highlighted by Rob Peters | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago 305 views | 2 comments
Two of the biggest sites on the Internet are closer than ever to a merge, which would mean Microsoft is out of the loop."Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet...
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Imagine a time where Microsoft acquired Yahoo. You can surprise with the atmosphere when these two giants get together and empower the web. Now Microsoft has given three week deadline to Yahoo to respond on its...
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""If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of...
Can you say c-o-n-s-o-l-i-d-a-t-i-o-n?" The $17 billion takeover of Reuters Group PLC by electronic publisher Thomson Corp. has been approved overwhelmingly by shareholders of both companies, which together will form...
Ahead of the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, Take-Two Interactive Software is rejecting a hostile takeover bid from media giant Electronic Arts. In this case, pressing the Y-button doesn't work*.Take Two's financial...
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"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Diversified Indonesian business group PT Bakrie Brothers said Monday it has secured approval from its shareholders for the company's proposed rights issue of up to 81.2 billion shares.Under the plan, every 20 shares will be entitled to subscribe for...