Shareholders of Canadian rare earths processor Neo Material Technologies Inc., unanimously approved the takeover bid by Molycorp on Thursday, creating the industry's first integrated mines-to-magnets supplier. Under the terms of the deal ...
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With voting open on Facebook's proposed privacy policy changes, more than 110,000 users have weighed in -- and so far, the vote is heavily in favor of not making the change at all. Facebook historically had a rule that any proposed policy ...
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South Lanarkshire council has invested in an IBM XIV disk storage platform as part of its move to virtualisation. The IBM XIV environment supports email, file and print and virtualised line of business applications to minimise downtime. ...
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ALJ Regional Holdings, Inc announced that the ALJ stockholders approved the previously announced sale of KES Acquisition Company, ALJ’s majority owned subsidiary to Optima Specialty Steel, Inc for USD 112.5 million in cash pursuant to ...
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MENA reported that the Egyptian Stock Exchange rose on December 20th Thursday after the announcement of positive news related to the economy. This, combined with a brief period of political calm in between the two rounds of voting in the ...
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Computer Weekly has launched the third annual UKtech50, the definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the creation of a high-tech economy. We want ...
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PTI reported that corporate entities interested in setting up new banks including Reliance Capital and Religare have begun doing the groundwork after a key Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha last evening. In a major step to reform India's ...
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The US has confirmed it will resist efforts by China, Russia and their allies to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. The confirmation came in a statement issued by the US Department of State on US proposals to be ...
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Sprint Nextel will spend $2.2 billion to take complete ownership of Clearwire, a move that will help it expand its network capacity. Clearwire's board of directors has accepted the latest bid allowing Sprint to purchase the nearly 50% of ...
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Champion Iron Mine Limited announced that the execution of a definitive agreement with Northfield Metals Inc in respect of its previously announced agreement whereby Northfield has been granted an option to earn a 65% interest in seven iron ...
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In the history of all things political, musicians and celebrities have remained outspoken citizens who have voiced their views of modern society. Although these stars have had the ability to challenge the American government and influence ...
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Today, search engine Metro5 has announced the launch of it's open BETA program. The idea behind Metro5 is to deliver a set of up to 50 relevant results for each web search query, while taking social influence into account when ranking these ...
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UK - Immersive teamed up with Tait Technologies and Universal Music to deliver video pixel mapping for the X Factor's Final, broadcast, live on 9 December from the MEN Arena, Manchester. With a live audience of 12,000 the X Factor's ...
Despite vocal mistrust of e-voting, 151 Flemish municipalities in Belgium will use new electronic voting machines in October 14 elections. More than 60 percent of the country's Flemish citizens as well as voters in the Brussels region ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve the extension by five years of a controversial law, that its critics claim allows for the warrantless surveillance of electronic communications like email and phone calls of not only ...