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Winning ticket for 590-mln-dollar Powerball jackpot sold in Florida
The winning ticket was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida. No further details on the lone winner was available. The numbers drawn Saturday were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52 with a Powerball number of ...
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A look back at NASAs planet-pinpointing space scope
The space agency says the Kepler space telescope is having equipment issues. With the mission threatened, we look back at Kepler's mind-expanding search for Earth-like ...
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Microsoft holds NGOs Connection Day in Accra
The event organised on the theme, "Technology for Social Good" was to help NGOs harness the power technology in the delivery of their social ...
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Microsoft poised to invest in promising ICT experts in Ghana
Accra, May 18, GNA - Microsoft is poised to invest in the young and promising Information Communication Technology (ICT) experts who are willing to transform Ghana through the power of ...
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The Zombies Have It Hyundai Expands Walking Dead Deal
A scene from the finale of last season of The Walking Dead, from Hyundai's Facebook page. After this summer, Hyundai will see one nifty product-placement platform disappear but is doubling down on another. USA ...
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France Must Take Deficit Cuts Seriously Bundesbank head
France has a special responsibility as a euro zone heavyweight to take deficit reduction rules seriously, even though its budget deficit is above target, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said in an interview published on ...
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These Cloud Stocks Can Fly Pros
cloud computing , which allows consumers and businesses to access data and applications anywhere, anytime. "You have to focus on cloud as a tech investor at this point," Ken Allen, technology portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price, told CNBC this week. "It cuts across the industry, across subsectors." Given cloud computing's potential, Wall Street analysts remain bullish on ...
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US business stockpiles flat in March sales fall
WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses left their stockpiles unchanged in March for a second month while their sales fell sharply. The Commerce Department says business stockpiles showed no increase in March on a seasonally adjusted basis. Businesses hadn't upped their restocking in February, either. Sales fell 1.1 percent in March compared with February when sales had risen 1 percent. A ...
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Sharp CEO California is what I know
May 14, 2013-SAN DIEGO, CA Sarah Cleary, right, a Sharp Rees-Stealy licensed vocational nurse at the Sorrento Mesa clinic takes measurements of 11-month-old Lili Ayson, center, during a visit with her father, Jeremy Ayson, left, of Mira ...
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Verizon Galaxy S4 starts shipping early
Samsung plans a hard-core Galaxy S4, says report While I've yet to see video footage, I can only assume that many happy dances have followed receipt of these emails. The Galaxy S4 on other carriers, ...
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China Housing Bubble Cools But Prices Still Higher
China housing prices continued to rise in April. China's property market cooled a bit in April, but home prices are still on the rise, the National Bureau of Statistics said Saturday. Of the 70 major Chinese cities tracked by NBS, 67 saw home prices increase in April compared to March, with the highest growth rate at 2.1%, down from the 3.2% in March. All the first-tier cities like ...
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Best Airports In The World
Probably no one, really. The better question is "who hates airports?" For the most part, it's often the airports that make flying such a chore. Some of them are better than others. According to the Airports Council International, these are the airports that travelers prefer. For customer service in South Africa to China, here's a look at the top three airports in six ...
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China Police Bust Terrorist Hoax
Authorities bust terrorist hoax. Chinese authorities caught a 43-year old man who made bomb threats that affected five flights bound for Shanghai on Friday. From 5:22 p.m. to 5:25 p.m. on Friday, police in the cities of Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou received phone calls claiming there were bombs on passenger flights. Police started an investigation immediately and ...
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SAPVoice Are Machines On The Net Making Humans Obsolete
. These sensors monitor the environment and send data to the cloud for analysis. Every physical object becomes a tool we can interact with in real time. And machines can communicate with each other to respond with no human intervention at all. This IT inflection point ...
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10 things cruise lines won’t tell you
It's been a tough couple of seasons for the cruise ship industry. First, the Costa Concordia, a 3,800-passenger ship operated by a unit of Carnival Corp., ran aground off the coast of Italy in January 2012. Thirty-two people were killed, while images of the abandoned ship, lying incongruously on its side. beside a picturesque beach town, flashed around the ...
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Is Tumblr the new Geocities
let's say 1999, you'd find that the scenario is exactly the same as it was for Geocities, a company Yahoo acquired for $3.57 billion in stock . The Geocities story can be seen as a usual lens to use when considering a Yahoo/Tumblr merger because it followed a similar blueprint to the story currently developing. Fred Wilson's VC ...
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How to Hire Great Employees
Investors say they invest in people as much as they invest in ideas, and when it comes to your company, it is not just top management that can make or break your business. Unpleasant or dissatisfied employees, poorly trained workers, rapid turnover, or a toxic work environment can all predestine your organization to failure. Here are the 5 lessons I learned about hiring from interviewing several ...
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Why CSR The Benefits Of Corporate Social Responsibility Will Move You To Act
Recently, I connected with dozens of corporate executives of large and small companies in an effort to understand the benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to the corporation. The question, I learned, is harder to answer than you might expect, principally because most corporate do-gooders approach their social good efforts with more of an eye toward impact on the community than on ...
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Bernankes advice for college grads
"During your working lives, you will have to reinvent yourselves many times," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told new graduates at Bard College at Simon's Rock on ...
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The Winklevoss twins are Bitcoin bulls
A few months ago, word spread that the twins, Cameron and Tyler, had set up their own investment firm and decided to focus on a curious market niche: ...
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Android has become a hedge against Microsoft and Windows
(Credit: Hewlett-Packard) Hewlett-Packard rolled out another Android device this week. This could become a pattern as PC makers hedge against a world that's less about Microsoft and more about Google. On Tuesday, the largest PC maker in the world -- a dubious distinction these days ...
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Tech fair broadens and brightens seniors world
The 72-year-old Chula Vista resident will soon be able to see her grandchildren in Ohio on a daily basis. She'll be able to comparison shop without leaving her home. And, she will reconnect with old friends all over the country. All these life improvements are thanks to what she learned at Saturday's Technology Fair for the over-50 ...
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Microsoft opens full-line store at Dadeland
Microsoft store manager, Gonzalo Di Paolo, shows off a Surface tablet and colorful keyboard inside the brand new Microsoft retail store that will be opening at the Dadeland Mall on Saturday, May 18, ...
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Yahoo board to meet on $1.1B offer for Tumblr
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is rumored to be planning a Monday announcement, possibly of Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr for a reported $1.1 ...
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Graff Shows New Luxury Watches Outside Baselworld 2013
Baselworld 2013 . However, company representatives were in the city of Basel, where the world's largest Swiss watch tradeshow is held, to display its new collection of luxury timepieces to the press at a nearby hotel. It is fairly common for companies to hold viewings of their products outside of the tradeshow grounds. There are a variety of reasons why a company would do this. In ...
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