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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Google Inc. thinks its increasingly bitter rival Apple Inc. is trying to muscle it out of the mobile advertising competition on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The latest dispute between the Silicon Valley powerhouses centres on...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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MADRID/BERLIN (Reuters) – European policymakers sought to squash talk of a euro zone rescue for Spain yesterday as the country saw its borrowing costs rise in a debt auction ahead of an EU summit to discuss steps to fix the currency bloc.
Germany's Z...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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Quality Cutz, the Island's newest barber shop on Fagan's Alley in Hamilton, is offering customers a little more than the traditional trim and shave.
"This is not your neighbourhood barber shop," says its owner Jamion Simmons, a sharply-dressed market...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India's vegetable oil imports fell 26 percent in May, a fifth straight month of drops, as stocks piled up at ports and refineries following higher overseas purchases in the first quarter of the season from November.
Imports of p...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) –- Britain's biggest public sector trade union said yesterday it would fight government attempts to impose a pay freeze and curb pensions for its members.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Monday that Britain could no longer a...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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BC-US-FEA--Book Review-The Facebook Effect,0756
`The Facebook Effect' shows site's origins, impact
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"The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World" (Simon & Schuster, 372 pages, $26), by David Kirkp...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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LONDON (AP) – Directors of British Sky Broadcasting said yesterday they have rebuffed a buyout offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. that values the company at £12 billion ($17.7 billion), but were willing to back a sweeter bid.
News Corp., which ow...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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Spain defends labor reforms as strike call looms
MADRID (AP) -- Spain defended planned labor market reforms as unions prepared Tuesday to call the country's first general strike in nearly a decade,...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – To appeal to families ready to graduate from the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Corp. wants to build on the success of the Wii's motion-capture wand – by getting rid of the wand entirely.
On Monday, Microsoft detailed its new Kinect game ...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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Aon Corporation has paid tribute to one of its top executives in Bermuda during the 1980s following his recent death.
Bernard Fung died in Hong Kong last month, having lived in Bermuda three decades ago and been an executive with one of the company's...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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