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Source: Star Tribune
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Thu Dec 03 20:47:19 -0800 2009 | business-news
Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal for $13.75 billion, giving the nation's largest cable TV operator control of the Peacock network, an array of cable channels and a major movie studio. Although...
China, India register strong growth in online shopping: survey
Source: Xinhuanet.com
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Thu Dec 03 03:47:11 -0800 2009 | business-news
Online shopping continues to be popular among internet users in Asia-Pacific with 89 percent of people who participated in a survey saying they had shopped online in the past 12 months, Visa said on Thursday. According to the Visa eCommerce...
Oil higher in Asian trade
Source: The Economic Times
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Wed Dec 02 23:39:20 -0800 2009 | business-news
Oil was higher in Asian trade on Thursday, bouncing back from overnight falls as investors digested key US inventory data, analysts said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for January delivery rose 20 cents to $76.80 a barrel. Brent...
U.S. Autos Make Gains in Resale Value
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Wed Dec 02 14:15:37 -0800 2009 | business-news
Behind the auto makers' change in fortunes this year are lower gasoline prices, which have retreated from 2008 highs of $4 a gallon. More affordable fuel has caused buyers to shy away from small cars—a strength of the foreign nameplates....
BofA Breakup Is New Snag in CEO Hunt
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Wed Dec 02 10:07:36 -0800 2009 | business-news
At least two candidates for the top job at Bank of America Corp. told directors that the giant bank should consider breaking itself up, but board members in charge of the CEO search have rejected the idea at least for...
N.J. Likely to Allow Medical Marijuana
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Tue Dec 01 06:58:59 -0800 2009 | political-news
New Jersey is poised to become the next state to allow residents to use marijuana, when recommended by a doctor, for relief from serious diseases and medical conditions. The state Senate has approved the bill and the state Assembly is...
RMAF pilots bid sad farewell to the MiG-29s
Source: The Star
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Tue Dec 01 15:23:43 -0800 2009 | political-news
Government’s decision to phase out the MiG-29 by the end of next year...William of the 17th Squadron said he had logged 1,200 hours of flight on the Russian aircraft. “I am so familiar with it and it feels sad to...
CrunchPad canceled: Arrington’s pet project now vaporware
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Mon Nov 30 14:17:18 -0800 2009 | entertainment-news
11.30.09 It’s the trash compactor for the CrunchPad. In a post that is as direct and unfiltered as the world has come to expect from him, firebrand TechCrunch founder and editor Michael Arrington on Monday laid out the undoing of...
AOL Readies New Media-Production System
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Mon Nov 30 04:09:08 -0800 2009 | business-news
AOL is putting the finishing touches on a high-tech system for mass-producing news articles, entertainment and other online content, the linchpin of Chief Executive Tim Armstrong's strategy for reviving the struggling 25-year-old Internet company after Time Warner spins it off...
Copenhagen conference: The view from America | Elizabeth Kolbert
Source: The Guardian
Singapore :: Singapore | updated Sun Nov 29 20:29:39 -0800 2009 | green-news
The view from America Barack Obama may be judged harshly by history if the US does not show its hand at the talks Elizabeth Kolbert Barack Obama has said that “our generation’s response to this challenge will be judged by...
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