US Northeast spot gas prices were trading above New York Harbor fuel oil prices Tuesday as a cold snap descended upon the eastern US. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line zone-6 New York spot gas was trading around $22/MMBtu Tuesday on ...
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Microsoft has finally concluded its protracted search and chosen its new CEO:Satya Nadella,who as executive vice president of the company's Cloud and Enterprise group has successfully steered the shift of the company's back-end server ...
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(Phys.org) —Advances in light-sheet microscopy have led to impressive images and videos of the brain in action. With this technique, a plane of light is scanned through the sample to excite fluorescent calcium sensors which proxy ...
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Steve Ballmer, still Microsoft CEO , is nearly $3.2 billion richer than he was a year ago, his good fortune driven by a 34.5% increase in Microsoft's share price during 2013. Ballmer, who as of September 2013 owned more than 333 million ...
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Sometimes when I think of the human brain,the theme from"Star Trek"starts playing in my own head.It's the music of great unknowns—and in certain ways the human brain,with more connections between its cells than there are galaxies in ...
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Scientists in Austria suggest a new definition for old age -- not involving chronological age -- but using life expectancy, health and cognitive function. Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov, population researchers at the International ...
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In an unreserved public auction in Montreal, Quebec, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, will sell more than 2,900 pieces of equipment and trucks. Bids for the Montreal, QC auction can be made in ...
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A new Trojan programme that targets users of online financial services has the potential to spread very quickly over the next few months, security researchers warn. The malware was first advertised on a private cybercrime forum in July, ...
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International credit rating agency Moody's has announced that it has raised the European steel industry outlook to stable from negative given the improving fundamentals in the European steel industry, reflected by slight growth in euro area ...
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Alvopetro Inc. ("Alvopetro" or the "Company") announces that it has closed a transaction with Petrominerales Ltd. ("Petrominerales") to sell its 25 percent interest in 10 exploration blocks located in the Reconcavo Basin and three marginal ...
Dole Food Company, Inc. today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), a leading proxy advisory firm, issued its report recommending that Dole shareholders support its previously announced merger agreement with ...
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U.S. crude-oil futures settled 1% lower Friday after the International Energy Agency warned that the U.S. fiscal crisis could harm demand and said supplies are rising faster than previously thought. Light, sweet crude oil for November ...
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Nokia's outgoing CEO Stephen Elop is to receive €18.8m ($25.5m) from Nokia and Microsoft due to contractual clauses pertaining to a change in control of the company. Revealed in a "proxy materials" document by Nokia, Elop's payout ...
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Shuanghui International, a Chinese food giant, is hopeful of closing the $4.7bn acquisition of American pork producer Smithfield Foods by 26 September 2013, following the approvals from the latter's stakeholders. The American producer has ...
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Uranium prices are at their lowest level in nearly eight years, as investors and utilities give up on a quick revival for nuclear power. The market for the radioactive fuel hasn't recovered from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ...
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