NEC swings to annual net profit
Japan's NEC cast off two straight years of losses Friday, reporting it had returned to the black after a painful restructuring including layoffs and a business overhaul.
Business
Apr 26, 2013
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News tagged with investment group
Skype replaces Microsoft Messenger for online calls
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that recently-acquired Skype will replace its Messenger online chat service.
Internet
Nov 6, 2012
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Permira buys Ancestry.com for $1.6 bn
European private equity group Permira will take over the popular Nasdaq-listed genealogy website Ancestry.com for $1.6 billion in cash, Permira announced on Monday.
Business
Oct 22, 2012
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With Apple in, Dow would have set record long ago
(AP) -- Apple is the world's most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world's best-known stock index. So don't they deserve each other?
Business
May 10, 2012
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WWF urges banks to block Sakhalin oil plan and save whales
Environment group WWF on Thursday urged three European banks to block Russian giant Sakhalin Energy's plan to build an oil drilling platform that the group claims could harm the endangered grey whale.
Ecology
Feb 9, 2012
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NASA books 1st flight from New Mexico spaceport
(AP) -- NASA has booked a charter suborbital flight from Virgin Galactic's spaceport operations in southern New Mexico.
Space Exploration
Oct 14, 2011
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Compared to bloggers, journalists go deeper to cover sports
When sports stories become linked with other social and business issues, professional journalists tend to offer deeper and broader coverage than sports bloggers, according to Penn State researchers.
Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2011
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Mobile pay start-up Square valued at $1 bln: report
A group of investors plan to buy a stake in Square that would value the mobile payment start-up at $1 billion even as it competes with much larger rivals, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Business
Jun 29, 2011
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RIM shareholder calls for separate CEO, chairman
(AP) -- BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. is already struggling to keep up with rivals such as Apple Inc. Now it faces another challenge: dissident shareholders who are calling for changes in how the company is run.
Business
Jun 11, 2011
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News Corp. sells Beliefnet to BN Media
News Corp. sold Beliefnet, a multi-faith spirituality website it purchased two-and-a-half years ago, to an investment group on Friday.
Business
Jun 26, 2010
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