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EBay settles lawsuit filed by Skype founders
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.
DirecTV shows subscriber gains, as rivals see loss
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Satellite TV operator DirecTV Group Inc. was one of the few pay-TV companies to attract new subscribers in the third quarter, as it reported revenue growth of 10 percent that was partly offset by higher costs to attract ...
Major layoffs loom at Time Inc.: reports
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Time Inc., publisher of Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, People and other magazines, plans to lay off some 540 employees starting next week, or six percent of its workforce, The New York Post reported Friday.
India's Wipro posts 19 percent rise in profits
Oct 27, 2009 |
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India's third-largest software group Wipro on Tuesday reported a 19-percent rise in net profit and forecast improving demand, underscoring new optimism in the sector.
Metallica debuts finger-tapping app in iPhone
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Headbangers will have a reason to steady their gaze a bit starting Tuesday, when rock band Metallica makes its way onto iPhones with a finger-tapping music app called "Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica."
Industry backs off food labels after FDA criticism
Oct 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A food industry group is voluntarily halting promotion of its nutrition labeling program after federal regulators said such systems may be misleading consumers, officials with the group said Friday.
Geologist analyzes earliest shell-covered fossil animals
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2009 |
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The fossil remains of some of the first animals with shells, ocean-dwelling creatures that measure a few centimeters in length and date to about 520 million years ago, provide a window on evolution at this ...
MySpace Music videos to appear on Facebook
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Social-networking site MySpace is using its joint venture with recording companies to launch a music video service that will pop into millions of profiles at rival Facebook as well.
Public expresses need for government intervention to reduce socio-economic disparities in health
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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As Congress debates the public health care option, a recent study reveals greater public support for reducing health care disparities among socio-economic groups (i.e. by income or education) than among racial groups. The ...
2,200 applicants in play for federal Internet grants
Oct 12, 2009 |
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The federal government is sorting through 2,200 applications seeking $28 billion to bring high-speed Internet access to more people, officials said at an Orlando technology conference Monday.
Study finds no relationship between PCR rate and race in women with breast cancer
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Locally advanced breast cancer patients who received the same class of neoadjuvant chemotherapy were found to have no evidence of disease at the time of their surgery, or achieved pathological complete response, at the same ...
Mobile device makers want common earphone plugs
Oct 08, 2009 |
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An international trade group representing wireless device makers has announced it was backing a drive to standardize audio and USB plugs for laptops and other mobile gadgets.
Climate: What's to become of the Kyoto Protocol?
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol -- the only binding global agreement for curbing greenhouse gases -- has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators in Bangkok try to lay the groundwork for ...
Fewer hikers means less support for conservation, study says
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Serious hikers and backpackers tend to become supporters of environmental and conservation groups while casual woodland tourists do not, a new study says -- and a recent fall-off in strenuous outdoor endeavors portends a ...
Scientists show how hematopoietic stem cell development is regulated
Oct 06, 2009 |
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During cell division, whether hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) will develop into new stem cells (self-renewal) or differentiate into other blood cells depends on a chemical process called DNA methylation. These were the findings ...


