76201 results returned for search: "" category "Business"
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp.'s Bing overtook Yahoo! Inc. last month for the first time as the No. 2 search-engine provider in the US, according to Nielsen Co.
Bing had 13.9 percent of searches, while Yahoo had 13.1 percent, Nielsen said in ...
DATE: Sep 15, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
BEIJING (AP) — Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett said yesterday they won't be pressuring China's newly minted millionaires to give up their fortunes during a trip this month to China to promote philanthropy...
DATE: Sep 15, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Apple Inc.'s new music-discovery feature, Ping, is a potentially useful addition to iTunes. With it, you can see what songs your friends are buying and recommend some of your favorites to them.
It's great that Apple is finally inco...
DATE: Sep 15, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Retail sales volume fell for the 27th straight month as inflation-adjusted sales dropped 8.1 percent in July.
Consumers spent $94.7 million on purchases during the month, representing a six percent or $6 million decline in sales compared to the same ...
DATE: Sep 15, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (AP) - Investors looking for reassurances about the health of the global economy received just that yesterday.
Stocks extended their rally into a third week after global regulators agreed to new rules for how much money banks must hold in re...
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
XL Re has scaled back on its involvement in Chile's reinsurance market after failing to secure the structural changes and pricing correction it believed were necessary in the wake of the earthquake in February, according to a report in Insurance Day....
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (AP) — A tearful former IBM executive who has admitted that romance clouded his judgment was sentenced to six months in prison yesterday for his role in what prosecutors call the biggest hedge fund insider trading case in history.
Robert Mof...
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
One-third of Americans have been bullied in the workplace, according to a new survey from the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI).
A similar survey conducted in 2007 found this proportion was 37 percent, showing only a slight improvement in the past ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Name: Alison Hicks
Age: 29
Role: PR Consultant
What is your job? I am a PR consultant for Troncossi Public Relations, one of the Island's leading public relations and social media consultancies. I advise clients from a range of different sectors on h...
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Ace Ltd., which has been looking to invest in the Malaysian insurance market for some time, has bought general insurer Jerneh Insurance Bhd, according to wire reports yesterday.
Industry sources said that the Switzerland-based insurer had agreed the ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
