Google’s $33 Billion Cash Mountain – Investor Strategy Concerns Grow

December 2, 2010
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Google Inc, whose technology helps organize the web’s vast horde of data, now faces the equally daunting task of figuring out how to spend its growing cash mountain wisely. The Internet search leader’s $33 billion in cash and short-term investments is one of the richest war-chests in the technology sector, and is becoming increasingly visible [...]

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Google’s Groupon Deal To Go Ahead?

December 2, 2010
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An internet entrepreneur yesterday was set to follow Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and become a web billionaire. Andrew Mason is on the expected to sell Google his fast-growing business Groupon for $5.3billion. The 29-year-old’s website, which is only two years old, already employs around 1,000 people and has 2.5million users in UK alone, and 3,100 [...]

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Secret X37B SpacePlane Due Back at Vandenberg Next Week

December 2, 2010
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The US Air Force’s top-secret X-37B spacecraft is due to land sometime in the next few days at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. It will be the US’ first ever autonomous re-entry and runway landing. The X-37B, a mini robotic space shuttle, launched from Cape Canaveral in April. It has completed a nine-month classified mission [...]

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Boston Scientists Return Geriatric Mice to Teenage?

December 1, 2010
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Genetic scientists at Harvard Medical School have partially reversed age-related degeneration in mice by transforming gray-haired, feeble rodents from the mouse equivalent of “an 80-year-old person to a teenager”.  The study was published online last Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, and may lead to a new approach for tackling similar disorders in people. By [...]

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Euro-Crisis Deepening As US Sends Envoy

December 1, 2010
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Global concern about the euro zone debt crisis deepened today, as Washington sent a top U.S. Treasury envoy to Europe. G20 officials arranged a conference call to discuss the growing storm. Yesterday, investors had pushed risk premiums on Spanish and Italian government debt to record highs. However today, the bond spreads of Europe’s most southerly [...]

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Vitamin D Intake Guidelines – Conflicting Advice on the Sunshine Vitamin

November 30, 2010
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A panel of federal scientists on Tuesday tripled the recommended intake of Vitamin D for most Americans, and then cautioned that most people already get enough. They advise us to be skeptical of reports that far higher amounts offer benefits for diseases ranging from cancer to diabetes. The long-awaited new dietary guidelines say there’s no [...]

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WikiLeaks’ Founder Julian Assange Could Be Charged Under Espionage Act?

November 30, 2010
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be charged under the Espionage Act for making public classified U.S. government documents which he obtained illegally, a media report said here on Tuesday. The U.S. authorities are investigating whether Mr. Assange, also Editor-in-Chief of the whistle-blower website, violated criminal laws by disclosing the classified information, ‘The Washington Post’ reported. [...]

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