ZURICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Leading European banks reported dismal profits on Tuesday, blaming everything from the continent’s debt crisis and Spain‘s property market crash to Facebook‘s disastrous stock market debut. Within a space of an hour UBS of Switzerland, Deutsche Bank , BBVA of Spain and Austria’s Erste Bank delivered the bad news on an industry […]
Archive for July, 2012
Def Con hackers go mainstream but still love to party
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – When Jeff Moss founded the Def Con hackers convention in 1993, he never imagined that two decades on, one of the key speakers at the annual Las Vegas event would be four-star General Keith Alexander, head of the U.S. National Security Agency. Once known as an excuse for computer geeks and […]
Microsoft relaunches Hotmail as social-friendly Outlook
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp unveiled a revamped, Facebook-friendly version of its free, online email service on Tuesday in an attempt to reverse market share losses to Google Inc’s fast-growing Gmail. The world’s largest software company is renaming its Hotmail service Outlook, giving it a sharp new look, social network links, and new features for […]
J.K. Rowling launches Harry Potter book club online
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Ugandans try to avoid touching amid ebola outbreak
Kampala residents have been urged to avoid contact after the deadly Ebola virus hit the city but security guard Joseph Karuba‘s job is to frisk people and he doesn’t have gloves. “The thing has come back — it came first time and we beat it, then it came again and we beat it and now […]
Revealing the Psychology of Playing Card Magic
Think of a playing card. Got one in mind? Although it may have felt like a free choice, think again: Most people choose one of only four cards, out of a deck of 52. For now, remember your card — we’ll return to it later. For thousands of years, magicians have amazed audiences by developing […]
Watch: Cancer Survivor Loses Hands, Feet to Bacterial Infection
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Watch: Eye Twitch Pesters Pediatrician for 10 Years
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Conergy Selected to Install 3.4 Megawatts of Solar Energy for Grimmway Enterprises
World’s number one grower of carrots installing additional 3.4 megawatts of clean solar energy Bakersfield, CA (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 Grimmway Enterprises Inc., the largest carrot grower in the world, is making its carrots green once again with the Conergy Projects Group. The solar experts at Conergy will install approximately 3.4 megawatts of solar energy […]
Power provider loses appeal of EPA oversight
DALLAS (AP) — The largest power generator in Texas lost an appellate court challenge Monday over federal supervision of state clean-air regulations. Dallas-based Luminant Generation Co. filed a lawsuit challenging how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency responded to state plans for implementing new clean-air standards. But in a 29-page ruling, a three-judge panel of the […]
Watch: Mayor Mike Bloomberg Promotes Breastfeeding
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