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New devices and gadgets are coming on the market all the time, but do you really need them? No, but I want them. Here are three that caught my eye.
First, there was the advent of the rugged laptop, one that can be dropped into almost any situation an...
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ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS posted the biggest annual corporate loss in Swiss history and said it would cut a further 2,000 investment banking jobs as it looks to rebuild its damaged wealth management brand and overcome the credit crisis.
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based industrial giant Ingersoll-Rand Co. said chief executive officer and chairman Herbert Henkel plans to retire in 2010 and the company promoted Michael Lamach to president and chief operating officer as a first step...
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's retailers saw a surprise rise in sales in January as higher food prices and strong demand during New Year sales helped drive the best performance since May, a retailing lobby group said yesterday.
In its monthly survey, the Br...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index fell yesterday, breaking a five-day streak of gains, as energy and financial issues sank on scepticism about whether the US bad-debt plan, released yesterday, will be sufficient to bring health back to t...
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Bermuda's telecommunications industry needs to keep up with its global counterparts otherwise it will be in danger of falling behind the rest of the world.
That is according to Bermuda CableVision's general manager Terry Roberson, who was speaking to...
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LONDON (AP) — The Royal Bank of Scotland announced yesterday that it would slash up to 2,300 jobs in Britain because of the economic crisis.
That represents about two percent of the bank's 106,000-strong UK work force, the company said.
"We recognise...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An administration official said yesterday the overhaul of the government's $700 billion financial rescue programme is likely to include a partnership with the private sector to buy troubled assets.
The official said the plan would u...
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XL Capital Ltd. made a net loss of $1.43 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, cut its dividend payout to shareholders by almost half and plans to cut its global workforce by 10 percent.
The announcements came in the Bermuda-based insurer's earnings...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Over 100 British lawmakers (MPs) have called on the government to axe plans to increase beer tax in its 2009-10 budget amid fears thousands of jobs could be lost through pub closures.
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) sai...
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