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Commuters and tourists have provided the bulk of customers for a new café that opened a week ago alongside the Hamilton ferry terminal.
Dangelini's, at 8 Front Street, adjoins the Visitor Information Centre and offers light food and refreshments, in...
DATE: May 21, 2009
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Bermuda has a long way to go to catch up with the Internet speed and value offered in other developed countries, according to the Computer Society of Bermuda (CSB).
But with the three high-capacity telecommunications cables now serving the Island, th...
DATE: May 21, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said American International Group Inc. still poses a risk to the US financial system and cannot be allowed to default.
"I do not believe that the system today can withstand the effects of a...
DATE: May 21, 2009
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Dutch authorities investigating the business dealings of Bermuda resident John Deuss have applied to a US court to seek more information - in particular about transactions with a value of almost $138 million from the millionaire businessman's Netherl...
DATE: May 21, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index climbed more than one percent yesterday, boosted by rising oil and gold prices, but it pared stronger early gains as investors took profits after a sharp two-day rise.
The index rose by as much as 2.6 pe...
DATE: May 21, 2009
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Gains in the share prices of Butterfield Bank and Argus Group Holdings Ltd. helped the Island's stock market to rise by almost one percent yesterday.
Butterfield rose 10 cents, or 1.9 percent, to close on $5.45, as 107,500 shares changed hands.
It co...
DATE: May 21, 2009
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LONDON (AP) — Food and clothing retailer Marks & Spencer said yesterday it was cutting dividend payments by a third after full-year profit fell 38 percent, as intense competition forced it to slash prices aggressively in its home British market.
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DATE: May 20, 2009
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A curiosity? A whimsy? What to make of Wolfram Alpha, a site serving up the world in numbers? The creators describe it as a "computational knowledge engine" running on "10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and lingu...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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Bermuda's Emerging Professionals (BEPRO) will hold its first Lunch 'N' Learn tomorrow at the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce.
The subject of discussion will be Advice on Career Planning, Development, and Alternatives. Taking the form of a panellist disc...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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NEW YORK — Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake.
The stay-at-home mom was cut off not only from her 330 friends, including many she had n...
DATE: May 20, 2009
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