LivePress.com
Companies News
US Wants New Resolution To Disarm Hezbollah
AHN
The United States intends to push for a new UN Security Council Resolution further detailing the mission of international peacekeepers and the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon, in particular the disarming of Hezbollah. Security Council Resolution 1701 brought a temporary halt to the month-long...
Companies News
Ustad Bismillah Khan, Dead At 91
AHN
Ustad Bismillah Khan, the popular Indian musician, has died. He was 91. According to the Indo-Asian News Service, Bismillah Khan, who received the nation's highest civilian award of Bharat Ratna in 2001, died early Monday of cardiac arrest at a Varanasi hospital....
Companies News
Honda To Build Manufacturing Center For Asia In Thailand
AHN
Japanese carmaker Honda Motor said on Tuesday it will build a $32.7 million spare parts manufacturing center for Asia to meet the growing demand for spare body parts in the region. Asian Honda Motor, the Bangkok-based regional headquarters of the company said the target for the completion of the...
Companies News
Warren Buffett To Auction His Car For Charity
AHN
Billionaire Warren Buffett is auctioning off his 2001 Lincoln Town Car on eBay to raise money for charity. The proceeds will benefit Girls Inc., a nonprofit youth organization that provides educational and recreational programs to girls....
Companies News
Russian refuses to accept math prize
YAHOO
AP - A reclusive Russian won an academic prize Tuesday for work toward solving one of history's toughest math problems, but he refused to accept the award — a stunning renunciation of accolades from the top minds in his field.
Categories Latest Companies News Related:
Microsoft
LG
Companies
Links
Trade links
Companies News Friendster looks to recover lost glory
YAHOO
Reuters - Friendster Inc. said on Monday it received $10 million in new funding to expand abroad and help its pioneering social-networking site survive in a market dominated by younger successors who stole its thunder.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Australia's Coles Myer says it won't be pressured on takeover bid
YAHOO
AFP - Australia's Coles Myer has said it would not be pressured into accepting a "highly conditional" takeover bid from private equity funds potentially worth 15 billion dollars (11.25 billion US).
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Elusive Russian recluse declines top mathematics prize
YAHOO
AFP - A Russian recluse who solved a complex riddle has won the mathematics world's version of a Nobel prize, but true to form refused to accept the honour nor attend the royal awards ceremony.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Wal-Mart marks progress in Japan market
YAHOO
AP - Wal-Mart's Japanese subsidiary said Tuesday its first-half losses grew fivefold, but the unit's chief executive reaffirmed his commitment to Japan even as the U.S. retailer abandons the German and South Korean markets.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Home builder Toll Brothers profit falls
YAHOO
AP - Luxury home builder Toll Brothers Inc. said Tuesday its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 19 percent as a downturn in the housing market resulted in a dip in revenue and caused the company to reduce the number of lots it controls.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News AP Blog: Candy protocol in Iraqi towns
YAHOO
AP - AP Correspondent Robert H. Reid covers Iraq events from Baghdad. AP Correspondent Rebecca Santana is embedded with the First Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division. Antonio Castaneda is embedded with the U.S. Marines, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Regiment.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Willy the Tortoise comes home
YAHOO
AP - Willy the tortoise made a break for freedom — well, break may be too strong a word. It was more like a slow crawl. But after a month on the lam, the 40-pound tortoise with a 2-foot-wide, gold-colored shell is back in the wading pool at his owner's home.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Cisco buys private on-demand TV company
YAHOO
AP - Cisco Systems Inc. is buying a private on-demand television company for $92 million cash, part of the network-gear maker's bid to become a consumer brand that delivers television, movies and other video on the Internet.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Toll Brothers posts lower earnings
YAHOO
Reuters - Luxury home builder Toll Brothers Inc. on Tuesday reported lower quarterly profit, hurt by falling orders and deteriorating market demand.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Some Dems want Lieberman out of party
YAHOO
AP - Critics of Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Israeli police search president's home
YAHOO
AP - Police raided the official residence of Israeli President Moshe Katsav as part of a sexual harassment investigation, seizing computers and documents, officials said Tuesday.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Bomb hits Canadian convoy in Afghanistan
YAHOO
AP - A suicide car bomber hit a Canadian military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, witnesses and a police officer said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News EU reinforces troops in Congo as fighting flares
YAHOO
Reuters - The European Union rushed more peacekeepers to Congo on Tuesday as the U.N. and foreign leaders struggled to end fighting between soldiers loyal to President Joseph Kabila and supporters of his election rival.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Suicide bomber hits NATO convoy in Afghan south
YAHOO
Reuters - A suicide bomber rammed a car into a convoy of NATO troops in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday, but there was no immediate report of casualties, witnesses said.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Italy offers to lead U.N. force in Lebanon
CNN
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has told U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan his country is willing to lead a U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
Sources: CNN
Companies News Bush urges GOP to focus on economy
YAHOO
AP - Even though he's not running for re-election this year, President Bush knows just what he would focus on if he were: the economy and taxes.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Toshiba Announces New Multimedia DVD Projector
YAHOO
PC Magazine - Toshiba's newest projector offering is reliable enough for work use, but has plenty of features geared toward home use as well.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Some 427,000 eastern Europeans come to UK to work
YAHOO
AFP - More than 427,000 people from the eight EU member states in eastern Europe have come to work in the UK since the bloc's enlargement in May 2004, according to government figures.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News Police: Bomb found, defused in Sri Lanka
YAHOO
AP - Police acting on a tip discovered and defused a powerful bomb planted in a box of vegetables on a bicycle in a busy shopping district in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, an official said.
Sources: YAHOO
Companies News EU to act Wednesday on tainted US biotech rice
YAHOO
Reuters - EU authorities plan to act this week to ensure that an unauthorized biotech rice detected in the United States does not enter the bloc's food chain, an official at the European Commission said on Tuesday.
Sources: YAHOO
Pages:   [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]