News tagged with cash
Post Office card error leaves Italians in the red: report
Nov 26, 2009 |
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A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday.
Palm faces 'make-or-break' event with launch of the Pre
May 27, 2009 |
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Few businesses rise or fall on a single product, but Palm Inc. has essentially banked its future as a company on a small, touch-screen wireless phone set to hit the market in just two weeks.
Intel CEO gets $12.4M in 2008 pay
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The value of Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini's compensation package rose slightly to $12.4 million in 2008, a year in which the chip maker's profit was whacked by a global slowdown in personal computer ...
Japan's DoCoMo eyes cash transfer by cellphone
May 27, 2009 |
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Japan's top mobile telephone operator NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it aimed to launch a new service enabling cash transfers simply by entering the recipient's cellphone number.
Google executives get one-dollar paychecks in 2008
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Google's co-founders and the California Internet titan's chief executive Eric Schmidt each took only a dollar in pay last year, a filing with US regulators indicates.
Analysis: 'Cash for Clunkers' program is expensive way to cut carbon emissions
Aug 14, 2009 |
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New UC Davis estimates say the federal government's Cash for Clunkers program is paying at least 10 times the "sticker price" to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
Study Shows Bank Risk-Assessment Tool Not Responding Adequately to Market Fluctuations
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that regulators need to do more to ensure that banks are adequately computing their Value-at-Risk (VaR) to reflect fluctuations in financial markets. ...
Oracle manages 3Q feat: healthy contract signings
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Oracle Corp.'s sales force pulled off a big feat in the business software maker's latest quarter, sustaining a healthy clip of contract signings amid a dreary time for technology spending.
Older Adults Say Cash Might Motivate Them to Walk
Feb 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2006, a team of researchers set out to examine what sorts of walking programs and incentives might induce sedentary people over age 50 to put on their sneakers. They found that small cash payments might ...
How you spend affects how much you spend: Non-cash purchases found to be higher than cash buys
Sep 07, 2008 |
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There is fresh evidence that people spend less when paying cash than using credit, cash-equivalent scrip or gift certificates. They also spend less when they have to estimate expenses in detail. These findings appear in the ...
NASA Seeks Ideas For New Prize Challenges
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Innovative Partnerships Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington is offering an opportunity for the public to help shape the prize challenges the agency offers to America's future citizen-inventors.
Small investments to battle soybean pest paying off big, says MSU researcher
Mar 23, 2009 |
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The small amount of money put toward fighting the tiny, yet destructive soybean aphid will pay big dividends in the coming years, said a Michigan State University economist, thanks to a research and outreach ...
Extra cash from government program linked to higher risk of adult obesity
Oct 21, 2008 |
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While a poverty-alleviation program launched by the Mexican government that has been modeled in the United States and around the world has led to improved health and cognition outcomes in children, a new study by University ...
Snapshot of a recession
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A revealing snapshot of the effect of the downturn in the UK economy on the small business sector has been uncovered by an online survey produced by The University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and ...
