Google chairman Eric Schmidt plans to sell 3.2 million "A" shares worth $US2.5 billion ($2.44 billion) over the next year, Google says in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The sale amounts to 42 per cent of Schmidt's ...
CRAiLAR Technologies Inc. which produces and markets CRAiLAR, a natural fiber made from flax and other bast fibers, has been named to the 2013 TSX Venture 50, a list assembled based on quantitative measurement of top performing publicly ...
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The mobile industry might be preparing to show off lots of new gadgets at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but a mergers and acquisitions specialist says the industry should forget about hyping them up and prepare for ...
Shanghai-based Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel) has announced that as of February 4 it has spent RMB 1.97 billion ($314 million), including commissions, to buy back 424 million of its own shares, paying between ...
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DELL has unveiled plans to go private in a $US24.4 billion ($23.4bn) deal which would give founder Michael Dell a chance to reshape the former number one PC maker. "I believe this transaction will open an exciting new chapter for Dell, ...
Facebook acebook-owned Instagram has begun letting a freshly launched website serve as a gallery for images taken by users of the smartphone photo-sharing service. "Instagram, at its core, is about seeing and taking photos on-the-go," ...
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An Iraqi telecom company raised nearly $1.3 billion Sunday on Baghdad’s small stock exchange in one of the region’s biggest share offers in years — a sign of investor confidence in the fledgling private sector despite ...
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Shares in toy giant Mattel hit a 14-year high after the company revealed its 2012 financial results last Friday. Its share price on the NASDAQ US stock exchange closed at $38.26 on Friday, February 1st, its highest since June 1998. ...
NEW YORK -- RIM's share price dropped more than 6% on Wednesday, after the company announced that it was changing its name to BlackBerry and unveiled two new smartphones, the touchscreen Z10 and the qwerty keyboard Q10. The BlackBerry ...
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The Wet Seal, Inc. a leading specialty retailer to young women, announced a corporate workforce reduction and certain other cost-saving and investment initiatives. The Company also announced the resignation of President and Chief Operating ...
At the time of the appointment of the current Board on 3 October 2012, the Victoria Directors made it clear that they wished to directly link the performance and reward of key personnel to the creation of wealth for shareholders. This link ...
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The Australian sharemarket has closed slightly weaker, snapping a 10-day winning streak, after markets in the US fell. At 4.15pm AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index had fallen 17.9 points, or 0.37 per cent, at 4878.8 points, and the ...
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The Australian sharemarket pulled back in late trading but still closed slightly higher, with investors unfazed by Julia Gillard announcing that the next federal election would be on September 14. At 4.15pm AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 ...
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The Australian sharemarket has closed higher, with investors encouraged by the recent strength of global markets. At 4.15pm AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index had risen 53.8 points, or 1.11 per cent, to 4889.0 points - its highest ...
One-off costs have caused profits at ingredients group CSM to fall in 2012, but sales growth and better-than-expected underlying earnings saw the firm's share price jump following its results announcement. CSM's share price rose by 4% in ...
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