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I was at a Radiohead concert the other day and I was amazed at the wall of lighting the band created to go with their special kind of sound.
I went on to the band's site and I got an explanation of how the LED lighting system for the current tour cam...
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LONDON (Reuters) - British inflation shot up to nearly double the central bank's two-percent target in June, intensifying doubts about whether the Bank of England can cut interest rates to prevent a sharp economic slowdown.
The news that consumer pri...
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp yesterday announced a plan to cut costs by $10 billion, suspend its common stock dividend and sell up to $4 billion in assets in a bid to shore up cash to survive a deep industry slump.
The restructuring, the s...
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Cable customers will have to pay for a service free to non-cable customers because of new legislation, according to CableVision boss Terry Roberson.
Mr. Roberson says under the proposed new law CableVision will be forced to start charging subscribers...
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Ace Ltd. shareholders have backed the initial part of the insurance giant's plan to redomicile its holding company from the Cayman Islands to Switzerland.
A filing with US financial regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said sharehol...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress yesterday that the fragile US economy is being confronted by "numerous difficulties" including persistent strains in financial markets, rising joblessness and housing problems — de...
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Butterfield Bank has appointed Lloyd Wiggan as the new managing director of Butterfield Bank (Barbados) Ltd.
Mr. Wiggan previously held the position of senior vice-president of retail banking at the bank's head office in Bermuda.
Alan Thompson, presi...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal announced yesterday with Netflix Inc. that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding into all-purpos...
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FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — European plane maker Airbus booked orders for 143 planes yesterday at the world's biggest air show, while Boeing Co. reassured the industry that its previously delayed 787 jetliner remains on schedule.
In other deals on th...
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LONDON (AP) — Britain reported fresh economic woes from falling retail sales in May as the number of people moving home fell to the lowest level in 30 years, according to figures out yesterday.
British retail sales fell 0.4 percent in June compared t...
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