News tagged with initial
Susceptibility predicts smoking risk among Mexican-American youth
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Whether non-smoking Mexican-American adolescents go on to experiment with smoking depends largely on their initial attitude toward the habit, researchers at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the December issue of Cancer Ep ...
Research indicates toddlers can become ageists by three
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places. For Sheree Kwong See, it happened during a testing session with a subject while conducting a study on language and cognitive changes ...
EBay working on alternative software for Skype
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- EBay Inc. is developing software it might use to continue running the online telecommunications service Skype if it cannot resolve a legal dispute with a separate company run by the service's founders.
Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale -- privately
Jun 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scott Painter makes his living betting on startup companies, having played a role in launching 29 of them over the years. But with the bad economy choking initial public offerings and acquisitions, ...
Offer puts value of at least $6.5B on Facebook
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to put it at $6.5 billion to $10 billion.
A strong business plan is most important when investing in start-ups
Apr 08, 2009 |
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When making investments, investors look for start-ups that have a strong business plan and a strong management team. A new study in The Journal of Finance reveals that while strong management is important, ultimately a stro ...
Scientists link fat hormone to death from potentially deadly blood infection
Oct 23, 2009 |
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A new Canadian study has found that lower-than-normal levels of a naturally-occurring fat hormone may increase the risk of death from sepsis—an overwhelming infection of the blood which claims thousands of lives each year.
EBay plans IPO for Skype, undoing $2.6B-plus deal
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- EBay Inc. plans to spin off its Internet communications service Skype through an initial public offering, undoing a $2.6 billion acquisition that puzzled analysts and eBay struggled to justify.
University of Utah celebrates telescope's 'first light'
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11 symposium and reception ...
Power grid chief touts electric-car payback
Sep 25, 2009 |
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U.S. power grid chief Jon Wellinghoff is touting the long-term cost savings of electric cars, saying the vehicles could earn $1,500 a year in paybacks for their owners when their batteries are connected to the power grid.
Baidu CEO draws big crowd in Google's backyard
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The billionaire founder of a popular search engine drew a big crowd Wednesday at Stanford University - and it wasn't one of the guys that started Google Inc. just a few miles from the campus they ...
VC investments plunge 51 pct to $3.7 billion in 2Q
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Venture capitalists cut their U.S. investments in half during the spring, the second-consecutive quarter to mark a more than 50 percent decline, leaving the money flowing to startups at the slowest trickle in 12 ...
LinkedIn connects with ex-Yahoo exec as new CEO
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- After six months of grooming, LinkedIn Corp. founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo Inc. executive Jeff Weiner is ready to take over his job running the Internet's largest site devoted to professional networking.
India's Tata Consultancy Services Q4 net profit up 4.6 pct
Apr 20, 2009 |
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India's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services Monday said net profit rose 4.61 percent in the fourth quarter, hit by lower fees and cuts in technology spending due to the global economic slowdown.
Internal choices are weaker than those dictated by the outside world
Feb 11, 2009 |
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The underlying sense of being in control of our own actions is challenged by new research from UCL (University College London) which demonstrates that the choices we make internally are weak and easily overridden compared ...
