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Some major market moves are being made by Microsoft and Google, as they jostle for position to become the mightiest of the mighty in our digitally connected lives.
After the bungle with Vista, Microsoft is gearing up to launch its Windows 7 operatin...
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Bermuda-based insurer Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. has appointed Thomas Ramey and Wilhelm Zeller to its board as independent directors. Both will serve as class two directors.
Axis chairman Michael Butt said: "Axis Capital will benefit enormously from ...
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NEW YORK (BestWire via COMTEX) - There will almost certainly be an appeal of the judge's ruling in the federal civil suit between American International Group Inc. and Starr International Co., one of the lead attorneys has indicated.
"This case has ...
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Chris McKeown, the founder of Bermuda reinsurers CIG Reinsurance Ltd. and New Castle Reinsurance Co., has been named chief executive officer of global analytical and specialty practices.
Mr. McKeown had been serving as president and CEO of CIG Re, wh...
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NEW YORK (AP) — One trip for their Jack Russell terrier in a plane's cargo hold was enough to convince Alysa Binder and Dan Wiesel that owners needed a better option to get their pets from one city to another.
Yesterday, the first flight for the husb...
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AMSTERDAM (Bloomberg) - Royal Philips Electronics NV, Europe's biggest consumer-electronics maker, reported a quarterly profit, defying analysts' expectations of a loss, and said second-half sales may increase from the first six months.
Net income fe...
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LOM (Holdings) Ltd. yesterday announced that during the second quarter of 2009 it purchased 11,300 of its own shares for cancellation at an average price of $3.60 per share.
LOM is authorised to purchase shares from time to time in the open market, p...
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's inflation rate slowed to an annual rate of 1.8 percent in June, at last falling below the official target for the first time in 20 months, official data showed yesterday.
It was the lowest level for the consumer price index si...
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Government has applied to wind up the Hamiltonian Hotel & Island Club Ltd. over unpaid taxes, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The Ministry of Finance is looking to appoint a receiver to liquidate the company, with the case set to be heard before Suprem...
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AM Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (excellent) and issuer credit rating of "a-" of Bermuda-based Omega Specialty Insurance Company Ltd. The outlook for both ratings remains stable.
Best said OSIL's risk-adjusted capitalisati...
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