Nov 23 2006
A US federal judge has ruled that thousands of cases filed by patients who suffered side affects of the painkiller Vioxx cannot be combined into one class action suit against Merck & Co, the manufacturers of the drug. Judges Eldon Fallon reasoned...
Nov 21 2006
Cucumis is a Paris-based online community for people who knows at least two languages. Actually it works this way – users with knowledge of two languages earn points by providing translation service in the language they know. Then they can trade the...
Nov 21 2006
Sermo, the MA-based social network for doctors has received $3 million in a first round funding led by Longworth Venture Partners. You need to be a doctor to become a member of the site. However, they will open up for those who are not doctors in the...
Nov 21 2006
The California Supreme Court has ruled that bloggers and Internet providers in US are not liable for posting defamatory comments posted by third parties. This follows the case regarding a San Diego woman who was sued for posting libelous comments on her...
Nov 21 2006
The London Stock Exchange has rejected US-based NASDAQ’s final bid of $5.1 billion that would have resulted in LSE being acquired by NASDAQ in what would have been the first transatlantic stock exchange. The reason given was that the amount was too low...
Nov 20 2006
Nintendo’s new console, the Wii games console has gone on sale in the US yesterday. Several thousand fans lined up, many of whom had camped for days to get a unit in New York and Hollywood. The Wii is largely seen as Nintendo’s answer to Sony and...
Nov 20 2006
Yahoo! is going to work with seven newspaper groups that include 176 regional newspapers. These newspapers would start using Yahoo! HotJobs classified job site from December. The deal is much broader than that though. Both Yahoo! and the consortium...
Nov 20 2006
In a bid to become the world’s first transatlantic stock exchange, NASDAQ has launched a bid of £2.7 billion ($5.1 billion) to acquire the famed London Stock Exchange, which is Europe’s biggest stock market. NASDAQ has built up a 25 percent stake in...
Nov 18 2006
The story is not yet over. The Corus takeover story has more drama in it than we ever expected. First, the Tata Steel bid to takeover Corus, which the board agreed for a sum of $8.1 billion. The deal is not complete yet as it is awaiting the go ahead by...
Nov 18 2006
Recently, I was enquiring about whether there was a Skype client for Symbian-operated mobiles as an online acquaintance told me that there was one out already [sic.]. I had been a bit off from VoIP watching in the last 5-6 weeks or so concentrating on...