Chegg debuts HTML5 digital textbook reader
Source: Venture Beat
Santa Clara :: Cuba | updated 2012-03-18 18:14:51 -0700 | technology-news
Chegg's digital textbook reader is the nice guy: comfortable, treats you right, but doesn't come with many exciting twists. [E-readers] are built for reading purposes, not studying purposes, said Brent Tworetzky, director of product management for Chegg, in an interview...
Cuba to rent state-owned workshops to boost private sector growth
Source: Boston Herald
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2012-02-27 20:53:58 -0800 | political-news
Cuban authorities will rent out state-owned workshops to the country's growing private sector, the Cuban Communist Party daily Granma reported Monday. Carpenters, photographers, jewelers, and locksmiths among those who will be able to rent public facilities.
Picarro Recognized as a Global Top 100 Company by Red Herring
Source: PR Newswire
Santa Clara :: Cuba | updated 2012-02-14 10:56:57 -0800 | technology-news
Red Herring's Global 100 list is a mark of distinction for identifying promising companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Google, Skype, Baidu, Salesforce.com, YouTube, eBay and many others would change...
Charter flights between O'Hare, Cuba begin
Source: Chicago Tribune
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2012-01-26 04:28:24 -0800 | political-news
The Chicago Department of Aviation said one daily arrival and one departure to Havana will be available every Friday, with plans to add Monday service in January...Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in March 2011 to host charter flights to Cuba....
Cuban homes up for sale as housing law in effect
Source: Merced Sun-Star
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2012-01-11 17:58:44 -0800 | political-news
Listings on a Craigslist-style website have mushroomed since the law was announced last week, with prices ranging from the tens of thousands into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, even a cool $1 million for an oceanside villa in the...
Cuba relaxes real estate rules
Source: United Press International
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2012-01-05 00:04:25 -0800 | political-news
Citizens and permanent residents will be allowed to buy and sell real estate in Cuba under a law that goes into effect Nov. 10, officials said. The new law, published Thursday in Cuba's state-run newspaper, is a major change for...
Cuba makes it official: ordinary citizens can buy and sell cars
Source: Washington Post
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2011-11-29 19:45:52 -0800 | political-news
Cuba legalized the sale and purchase of automobiles for all citizens on Wednesday, another major step in the communist run island's economic transformation and one that the public has been clamoring for during decades. The government announced the move in...
Fort Lauderdale charter makes historic flight to Havana
Source: Miami Herald
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2011-12-13 16:06:51 -0800 | political-news
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport's first charter flight to Cuba in decades took off Saturday afternoon after a spray of water christened its 1 p.m. departure. To mark the occasion, the 110 passengers were greeted with balloons, pastelitos and Cuban-style soft...
France taxed the additional 3% to the richest to reduce the deficit
Posted by: Shaziakhan
Aix en Provence :: France | updated 2012-04-18 13:01:28 -0700 | business-news
Cornered by the markets and hobbled by a stagnating economy, the French Government had no choice but to announce a new plan of rigor for a total of 12,000 million euros. The measures unveiled yesterday by the Prime Minister, François...
Cuba finally reconciles with Cabrera Infante
Posted by: Shaziakhan
Gibara :: Cuba | updated 2012-04-18 13:57:55 -0700 | business-news
Guillermo Cabrera Infante returned to Cuba at the hands of two young journalists from the country, Elizabeth Mirabal Carlos Velazco, authors of a study of more than 300 pages focusing on the work and cultural background of the author of...
People-to-people tours to Cuba take off Thursday
Source: Miami Herald
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2011-10-11 06:00:19 -0700 | political-news
Liane and Tom Young got interested in Cuba through listening to the Buena Vista Social Club, the best selling Cuban album in history, and the allure of the island's famed cigars. When the first Americans to participate in people-to-people exchanges...
Cuba allowed more flights to U.S.
Posted by: Vicky247
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2012-11-02 07:16:20 -0700 | business-news
The weekly flights will be of ABC Charters, Inc. of Miami, which already flies between Miami and Cuba. "Access to this important international destination will benefit everyone in Tampa Bay, with its economic impact, and it is great news for...
Tampa airport to begin weekly charters to Cuba
Source: Miami Herald
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2012-11-01 21:29:06 -0700 | political-news
Tampa International Airport said Wednesday that the Cuban government had approved its plans to begin offering charters to the island...It took many people and many years working together to secure Tampa International Airport as the new gateway airport to Cuba,''...
Ruthless Media Moguls Rupert Murdoch And The Late Randolph Hearst
Posted by: Elderly1933Extrovert
Havana :: Cuba | updated 2012-07-27 19:09:57 -0700 | business-news
The methods of newspaper proprietors are ruthless when it comes to circulation. In this respect it seems to me there is more than a passing resemblance in the modus operandi of Australia born Rupert Murdoch and the late American born...
PG&E forced to reduce pressure on misclassified pipelines
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Santa Clara :: Cuba | updated 2012-11-01 21:13:36 -0700 | political-news
Top Classifieds Font Resize PG&E forced to reduce pressure on misclassified pipelines Posted: 07/01/2011 03:57:15 PM PDT In the latest of a series of disturbing disclosures, PG&E has told state regulators it misclassified numerous segments of pipe throughout the state --...
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