HP trots out 0% financing (again) The Register | More than IBM or Oracle, IT supplier Hewlett-Packard is dependent on volume sales to make its top and bottom lines. And with the economy improving but still not in great shape, HP has reanimated some zero per cent financing deals from early last year in the hopes of helping it get a solid start to...
GE profit tops forecasts despite finance weakness Turkish Press | General Electric reported stronger-than-expected profits as the giant US conglomerate's results from energy and manufacturing offset weakness at its financial and media units. | Net profit was 3.0 billion dollars in the fourth quarter, down 19 percent from a year earlier, and was 2.9 billion dolla...
G-7 NOTEBOOK: Finance chiefs hear different tune Seattle Times IQALUIT, Nunavut - | Finance officials are taking a break in talks about the world's economic woes to listen to a different tune. | But Inuit folk singer Lucie Idlout's music comes with a serious message - and a challenge. Her song, "Lovely Irene," i...
Spooks scour gambling sites in terror finance probe The Register | The security services are running 23 ongoing investigations into the exploitation of gambling websites to finance terrorism. | The revelation shows the online gaming industry is still vulnerable, and a prime target for criminals and terrorists, eve...
Differences narrow on A400M financing Seattle Times BERLIN - | European aerospace company EADS and seven countries that ordered its A400M military transporter narrowed their differences on financing the troubled project Thursday, the German Defense Ministry said. | Representatives of the two sides who...
Russian Finance Minister Reveals Plan to Lift Technology The New York Times | MOSCOW - The Russian finance minister on Wednesday floated a new, top-down approach to catching up with the West in high technology, a problem that has bedeviled the economy here for decades in spite of the country's rich tradition in science. | Th...
On the Call: Microsoft's new finance chief addresses cost control strategy Star Tribune | SEATTLE - In November, Microsoft Corp. announced that Chris Liddell, the chief financial officer credited with helping the sprawling software maker tighten its belt, would leave the company. | Thursday marked his replacement Peter Klein's first tim...
Could Court's Campaign Finance Ruling Affect Net Neutrality? The New York Times | A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that throws out limits on corporate political-endorsement spending is giving new hope to opponents of net neutrality regulation proposed by the U.S. Federal Communication Commission. | In Citizens United v. Federa...
Congress Finances Program to Use Technology in Education - NYTimes.com Newsvine | This will be interesting. One of my gripes about EETT (Enhancing Education Through Technology) was there really was nothing to get any significant pilot started. Here in our district of 15 school we receive about $15,000 per year. After the 25% for...
Researchers Finds Three Routines Can Cut Kids' Obesity Risk Pravda RU | Eat dinner as a family six or seven times a week, limit the time the child watches TV to less than two hours a day, and make sure he or she gets more than 10.5 hours of sleep a night. BREAKING NEWS Ukrainian Election Ends with Tymoshenko's Defeat Yulia Tymoshenko In and Out Politics More... | Those three simple household routines are associated w...
Wall Street Lower on Economy and Debt Worries The New York Times | Stocks fell moderately on Wall Street in early trading Monday as investors remain wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting debt concerns in Europe. | Major indexes have been on a roller coaster lately as investors try to determine whether a nascent global economic recovery is sustainable. | Traders are still grappling with co...
