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The big story today as elected by the major and not so major world media is that there had been a series of bombings in Iraq leaving quite a few corpses (BBC reports it as about 170 or thereabouts) on the streets of Baghdad. Much in line with what we...
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The news that just been in is that Kim Jong-il’s North Korea has agreed to the proposal of the five nations in what is known is as the ‘Six-Nation Talks’ that has taken some sort of ‘textbook historical proportions’ over the last few years. The proposal...
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A report by International Labour Organization says that HIV/Aids is afflicting global workforce. It said that it killed almost 3.5 million people of working age last year.
Not only it caused so many deaths, the disease also meant that about a million...
In what could be the first major nail in the DVD sales coffin, Wal-Mart has announced that it is going to test a video download service on its website next year. When Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailers and America’s largest seller of movies shifts...
This can be reminiscent of the fact that paid answer sites are destined to doom. The news is that Google has announced that Google Answers will close down sometime later this week.
Although no reason has been given for this closure, the fact that a...
The online video-sharing site with a focus on advertisement - ViTrue has found new investors that include Ron Conway, an original Google investor who is also known as ‘Godfather of Silicon Valley’. This follows its announcement last month of a Series...
On November 3, we reported YouTube founder Chad Hurley telling an audience that by the end of 2007, YouTube can deliver user-generated short clips to mobile devices. Within days the news that the No 2 telecom company in US, Verizon and YouTube were...
The US Supreme Court yesterday upheld last year’s Illinois Supreme Court ruling throwing out the massive $10.1 billion judgment against Philip Morris in a class-action lawsuit involving cigarettes sold as ‘light’.
The class-action lawsuit claimed...
Boeing has turned away Southwest Airlines, Boeing’s best customer to date having sold a whopping 477 Boeing 737s to the company alone. Southwest Airlines that flies only Boeing 737s wanted to add two more places on its recent order of 80. However,...
US carmaker Ford has admitted that it plans to borrow $18 billion to get back on its feet from its rapidly worsening financial condition. What’s more, Ford has also admitted that it was pawning its US plants as collateral for the latest loans.
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