Mexico leftist moves into second place in presidential poll |
- Mexico leftist moves into second place in presidential poll
- Olympus shareholders choose new board
- Samsung Outsold Apple In Smartphones In Q1, Analyst Says
- DRAM Consolidation and the McKinsey Steel Model
- Don't Throttle Me: Other Ways To Manage Wireless Traffic
- Japan firms want 'safety first' on nuclear restarts: poll
- Men at Work musician Greg Ham found dead
- Two years after BP oil spill, offshore drilling still poses risks
- Maker Of 'Up With People' Movie Knocks Down IRS
- Mexico leftist moves into second place in presidential poll
- Japan firms want 'safety first' on nuclear restarts: poll
- Geithner Asks Mukherjee for Reassurance
- Ford Bets $5 Billion on Made in China
- 3 Features Of Great Startups: How To Make A VC Go All In
- Ireland Struggles to Retrain Workers
- Web Activists Target Ugandan Rebel Leader
- Colombia's FARC denies plans to surrender
- Let's Be Blunt: It's Time to End the Drug War
- Japan opposition censures ministers, piles pressure on PM
- Two Uighurs Released From Gitmo
| Mexico leftist moves into second place in presidential poll Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:57 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has moved ahead of the ruling party candidate in Mexico's presidential race, but still badly lags front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, a new poll showed on Thursday. The survey sponsored by Mexico media company Milenio showed Lopez Obrador with 19.3 percent support, compared with 17.9 percent for Josefina Vazquez Mota from the conservative National Action Party, or PAN. Pena Nieto of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, holds a wide lead, with 39.4 percent support, according to the poll. ...
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| Olympus shareholders choose new board Posted: 19 Apr 2012 10:34 PM PDT Japanese firms rejects former chief executive Michael Woodford's bid to be reinstated after whistleblowing scandal.
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| Samsung Outsold Apple In Smartphones In Q1, Analyst Says Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:24 PM PDT Next Tuesday, Apple will report results for the March quarter. The Street is expecting the company to sell in the vicinity of 32-33 million iPhones for the quarter. That?s a lot of smartphones. But it might not be anywhere close enough to make the company the calendar Q1 smartphone champion. ACI Research analyst Edward Zabitsky ...
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| DRAM Consolidation and the McKinsey Steel Model Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:57 PM PDT Today I had lunch with a venture investor who is an alumnus of McKinsey Consulting.?? This gentleman is the second McKinsey alum who has talked to me about the McKinsey steel model and how it relates to the DRAM business, the other being 15 years ago.?? The DRAM business? economic model has changed little over ...
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| Don't Throttle Me: Other Ways To Manage Wireless Traffic Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:51 PM PDT Guest post written by Jeffrey Glueck Jeffrey Glueck is CEO of Skyfire, a provider of browsers and other mobile device software. Over the last month much has been said about AT&T's decision to throttle those customers on unlimited data plans who use over 1.5 gigabytes in a month. As many have pointed out, carriers are ...
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| Japan firms want 'safety first' on nuclear restarts: poll Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:32 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly three-quarters of Japanese firms want safety guaranteed before idled nuclear reactors in the country are restarted, seeing no need to rush the process despite the impact the loss of the power source could have on their businesses. Japan is set to have no nuclear power within weeks for the first time in over 40 years following last year's crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which crushed public trust in nuclear power and prevented the restart of reactors shut for regular maintenance checks. ...
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| Men at Work musician Greg Ham found dead Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:06 PM PDT
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| Two years after BP oil spill, offshore drilling still poses risks Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:17 PM PDT Two years after a blowout on BP's Macondo well killed 11 men and triggered the largest oil spill in U.S. history, oil companies are again plying the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Forty-one deep-water rigs are in the gulf. The vast majority of them are drilling new holes or working over old ones, while the other behemoths are idle as they await work or repairs. A brand new rig — the South Korean-built Pacific Santa Ana, capable of drilling to a depth of 7.5 miles — is on its way to a Chevron well. Read full article >>   
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| Maker Of 'Up With People' Movie Knocks Down IRS Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:35 PM PDT In a big win for documentary filmmakers, judge says money losing film is a business, not a hobby.
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| Mexico leftist moves into second place in presidential poll Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:58 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has moved ahead of the ruling party candidate in Mexico's presidential race, but still badly lags front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, a new poll showed on Thursday.
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| Japan firms want 'safety first' on nuclear restarts: poll Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:33 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly three-quarters of Japanese firms want safety guaranteed before idled nuclear reactors in the country are restarted, seeing no need to rush the process despite the impact the loss of the power source could have on their businesses.
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| Geithner Asks Mukherjee for Reassurance Posted: 19 Apr 2012 10:29 PM PDT U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asked Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for reassurance that India welcomes foreign investment, and raised concerns related to proposed tax measures in the country.
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| Ford Bets $5 Billion on Made in China Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:28 PM PDT Ford said it would build its fifth car factory in eastern China as part of a plan to double its production capacity and sales outlets in the country by 2015.
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| 3 Features Of Great Startups: How To Make A VC Go All In Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:12 PM PDT Guest post written by Hadley Harris Hadley Harris is chief business development officer at Thumb and general partner at ENIAC Ventures, where he invested in Thumb. It's not everyday that a venture capitalist makes the leap from being an investor to a full-time position at one of the startups in their portfolio. Diving head-first into ...
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| Ireland Struggles to Retrain Workers Posted: 19 Apr 2012 10:48 PM PDT Years after the global financial crisis sent Ireland's economy reeling, the country's 14.6% unemployment rate is higher than it was in 2009, and the country has slipped back into recession.
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| Web Activists Target Ugandan Rebel Leader Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:35 PM PDT An activist group said hundreds of thousands of online followers could hit the streets Friday, plastering cities with posters to draw attention to the atrocities African rebel leader Joseph Kony is accused of committing.
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| Colombia's FARC denies plans to surrender Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:38 PM PDT Statement by rebel leader Timochenko says proposed negotiations with government do not mean submission on their part.
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| Let's Be Blunt: It's Time to End the Drug War Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:39 PM PDT Apple still thrives without Steve Jobs. Drug gangs would still thrive without Mr. Big. It's time to end the drug war.
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| Japan opposition censures ministers, piles pressure on PM Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:25 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's opposition-controlled upper house of parliament voted to censure two ministers in Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's cabinet, further complicating his task of gaining support for his sales tax hike plan in a divided parliament. Noda needs opposition backing to pass bills that would double the sales tax to 10 percent in two stages by October 2015 to help fund swelling welfare costs. ...
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| Two Uighurs Released From Gitmo Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:19 PM PDT The U.S. released the first inmates from Guantanamo since July 2010, sending to El Salvador two detainees whom a federal court ordered to be set free in 2008.
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