Goats star in centennial festival of Leyte town Inquirer | This extra value for business surfaced in a technology forum held during the Upscaling RED (rural enterprise development) Project Farmers' Field/Market Day and Second Villaba Goat Festival on June 10 in Villaba, Leyte. | Coinciding with the centennial celebration of the town's founding, the festiv...
Gaming gamble for Google Asia Times | Jul 31, 2010 <IT WORLD> | Gaming gamble for Google | By Martin J Young | HUA HIN, Thailand - Google is cooking up new recipes in its digital kitchen, with reports this week about a number of partnerships with online gaming companies. A social gaming platform seems to...
'Will we give the next Google, Facebook, or Twitter?' Indian Express | Which Indian companies today have the capacity to strike fear into the hearts of the innovators and would-be innovators across the world? The answer, according to Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, "If we were being honest, would be not ver...
Whistleblower site's greatest hits NZ Herald 8:57 AM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print Headlines have been dominated by WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, this week. Tom Chivers picks the website's top 10 scoops. | 1. Iraq Apache helicopter attack | Horrifying video footage showing 15 p...
Procedure to Plug Well Briefly Delayed The New York Times | The first part of a two-step process to plug BP’s busted Macondo well will be delayed briefly, Thad W. Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral who leads the government’s spill response, said Friday. | Blog posts about the oil spill in th...
Fires and Storms Kill at Least 28 in Russia The New York Times | MOSCOW — Stoked by parched forests, dried-out swamps and the hottest summertime temperatures ever recorded in Russia, wildfires burned down several villages in the central part of the country, killing about two dozen people, government offici...
Roethlisberger Arrives at Camp, Hoping to Put Off-Season Behind Him The New York Times | LATROBE, Pa. — Ben Roethlisberger arrived at training camp in a caravan with his offensive line, big men squeezed into a string of Mini Coopers. Roethlisberger, who was investigated after allegations of sexual assault and has been suspended f...
Upholders of status quo Khaleej Times The most conservative section of Pakistani society, wedded to old ways and incapable of fresh thought, is not the religious establishment. | We need to rid ourselves of this delusion. The fortress of conservatism, the last and most impregnable redoub...
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Gaming gamble for Google Asia Times | Jul 31, 2010 <IT WORLD> | Gaming gamble for Google | By Martin J Young | HUA HIN, Thailand - Google is cooking up new recipes in its digital kitche...
Iran Aims for Space, U.S. Aims for War WorldNews.com Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran plans to send a man into space by 2019, it evoked the bold i...
PricewaterhouseCoopers laying off 500 employees Herald Tribune | TAMPA, Fla. - PricewaterhouseCoopers is laying off approximately 500 in-house information technology employees - most from its offices in Tampa. | The company says the cuts are p...
Telecom gets $75m for AAPT consumer sale NZ Herald By 4:00 AM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print | Telecom has quit part of its Australian business with the sale of its retail business to rival iiNet. | The A$60 million ($75 million) deal will see iiNet buy AAPT's consumer division complete with 200,0...
Technology to combat car gangs 'too costly' NZ Herald By 5:30 AM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print | Transport Minister Steven Joyce scrapped a planned crackdown on professional car thieves despite the strong support from the Justice Ministry and police to introduce the compulsory technology. | Insuranc...
Salman Butt's admission shows referral process still doesn't appeal to all London Evening Standard Salman Butt had a look of surprise in his eyes. Less than 24 hours before the start of today's first npower Test against England, the Pakistan captain had just been informed that the controversial Umpire Decision Review System would be in the four-match series. | It seems extraordinary that an international skipper would be unaware of such a signif...
Greece and the Power of Negative Thinking The New York Times | Once the cradle of European civilization, Greece is now at the epicenter of Europe’s economic crisis. The now-fading consensus in the market and among opinion-makers was that Greece is likely to fail, taking the euro zone with it. The country’s sovereign debt, which a few months ago was priced only a few basis points above Germany&rsq...
