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| Top Regional Business and Finance News |
| Bank of America shifts some projects back to US from India |
| ABW - 14 May, 2013 |
| Bangalore, May 14 -- Bank of America Corp., the second largest US lender by assets, has started to shift a small part of the projects it had awarded to India's software companies to local firms or its own centres to ward off political backlash against jobs being outsourced to India. |
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| $300M investment in Nook delivers next to nothing for Microsoft |
| ABW - 11 May, 2013 |
| Microsoft has gotten little from a 2012 investment of $300 million with Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it's poised to reap some rewards as it and its partners start to ship smaller tablets. |
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| Galaxy S4's US version needs added image processor for eye-tracking |
| ABW - 11 May, 2013 |
| Samsung has built several different Galaxy S4 smartphones, including a U.S. version running a Snapdragon processor that requires an extra image processor to enable heavily promoted user functions such as eye-movement recognition. |
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| Obama Visits Mexico Amid Shifting Drug War Strategy |
| ABW - 04 May, 2013 |
| Mexico City May 01, 2013 --U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Mexico and Costa Rica this week, starting with a flight Thursday to Mexico City, where he will meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto , who took office in December of last year. The two leaders may put most emphasis on trade and bilateral cooperation, but they also are likely to review efforts to defeat drug smuggling organizations based in Mexico. |
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| United States: Samsung maintains top slot in U.S. TV market for 60 months |
| ABW - 30 April, 2013 |
| Section: Business News - Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest flat-panel TV maker, maintained its status as the top flat-panel TV seller in the U.S. for 60 consecutive months, data showed on Tuesday. |
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| TIBCO Extends Reach of Its Enterprise Social Network tibbr With KPN and Amazon Web Services |
| Marketwired - 16 April, 2013 |
| PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/16/13 -- TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that tibbr® -- a leading enterprise social network -- has established a platform partnership with KPN, a leading European telecommunications provider and cloud services aggregator, and is also now available on AWS Marketplace, an online store where customers can find, buy, and quickly deploy software that runs on AWS. With this announcement, tibbr now uniquely provides the convenience of the one-provider, one-bill customer experience for enterprise social networking delivered through each of these trusted global cloud providers. |
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| BlackBerry Seeks U.S., Canadian Review of False Reports on Return Rates |
| Marketwired - 12 April, 2013 |
| WATERLOO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 04/12/13 -- BlackBerry® (NASDAQ: BBRY)(TSX: BB), a world leader in mobile communications, today said it would seek Securities and Exchange Commission and Ontario Securities Commission review of a false and misleading report about retail return rates for the Company's new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone. |
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| Alcoa Thrives Despite Weak Metal Prices in First-Quarter 2013, Maintains Expectations for Demand Growth, an Industrial Info News Alert |
| Marketwired - 12 April, 2013 |
| SUGAR LAND, TX -- (Marketwired) -- 04/12/13 -- Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Aluminum producer Alcoa Incorporated (NYSE:AA) (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) emerged from a difficult 2012 to see solid improvement in first-quarter 2013. Despite weak metal prices, the company reported record profits in its downstream business, and improved results in its midstream and upstream businesses. Industrial Info is tracking more than $6 billion in active projects involving Alcoa. |
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| Japan's All Nippon Airways Drives Multimillion Dollar Revenue Increase With HP Autonomy |
| Marketwired - 10 April, 2013 |
| PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/10/13 -- HP (NYSE: HPQ) -- HP Autonomy today announced that All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan's largest airline, is delivering an enhanced online customer experience and increasing revenue with HP Autonomy's market-leading multivariate testing platform, Optimost. |
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| Men v Women: The Economic and Financial Divide 2013 |
| MARKETWIRE - 28 Mar, 2013 |
| HALIFAX, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 03/28/13 -- The key findings for 2013 are: |
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| Top Press Releases |
| GOL and Delta Air Lines Report Codeshare Expansion |
| CLM - 14 May, 2013 |
| GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A., a low-cost and low-fare airline in Latin America announced a key milestone in its partnership with Delta Air Lines: the implementation of GOL codeshare on Delta's flights from Brasilia to Atlanta. |
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| McDonald's Posts Global Comparable Sales Decrease in April |
| CLM - 13 May, 2013 |
| McDonald's Corp. announced that global comparable sales decreased 0.6 percent in April. Performance by segment was as follows: |
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| Zynga launches new game "Running With Friends" |
| ABW - 11 May, 2013 |
| Global provider of social game services, Zynga has launched "Running With Friends" to global audience on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. "Running With Friends" is a high-speed 3D action-arcade game in which players around the world venture through the cobblestone streets of Pamplona, Spain, home of the annual Running of the Bulls Festival, as they try to outmanoeuvre, outrun and outscore their friends. The game includes social elements such as turn-based competition with real-life friends. Players complete with friends in three rounds to outrun their opponents by swiping their screen vertically and horizontally to dodge charge bulls and speeding cars. Players select their own in-game character and can choose to run as a ninja, ballerina or a zombie. "Running With Friends" was developed in collaboration with game developer, Eat Sleep Play. As the promotional partner at the launch of "Running With Friends," Dunkin Donuts will provide players with nine expert in-game tips for perfecting their game. Launching in nine languages including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, "Running With Friends" is available in the Apple App Store and is coming soon to Google Play. |
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| IFC Invests $25 Million in Brazil Hospitality Group |
| CLM - 10 May, 2013 |
| IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has become an anchor investor in BHG S.A.- Brazil Hospitality Group with a $25 million equity investment during the company's recent successful public offering of approximately $200 million. |
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| DJ Brazil's Petrobras to Sell Gulf of Mexico Stakes for $110 Million |
| OsterDowJones Select - 30 April, 2013 |
| SAO PAULO--Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.BR, PBR), Brazil's state-controlled oil company, said Tuesday that it agreed to sell its stake in six exploration blocks in the Gulf of Mexico and should receive about $110 million for the stakes. |
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| TIBCO Software Announces $300 Million Share Repurchase Program |
| Marketwired - 26 April, 2013 |
| PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/26/13 -- TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program pursuant to which the company may repurchase up to $300 million of its outstanding common stock. This program refreshes the company's previous $300 million share repurchase program, under which approximately $75.8 million was still remaining. |
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| U.S. Home Builders Continues to Impress in 2013 as Housing Market Shows No Signs of Cooling Down |
| MARKETWIRE - 28 Mar, 2013 |
| NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 03/28/13 -- U.S. home builders' impressive run has continued in 2013 as positive data supporting the U.S. housing markets recovery continues to roll in. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) has surged approximately 13.25 percent so far in 2013. Research Driven Investing examines investing opportunities in the Residential Construction Industry and provides equity research on KB Home (NYSE: KBH) and Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN). |
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| Tobacco Stocks Spike as Court Rules Against Health Warnings on Cigarette Packaging |
| MARKETWIRE - 21 Mar, 2013 |
| NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 03/21/13 -- The Tobacco Industry has been renowned for their stable revenues and hefty dividends. The average dividend yield of Altria Group, Reynolds American, Lorillard, and Phillip Morris International is approximately 5.0 percent, more than double the S&P 500's average dividend yield of 2.2 percent. Five Star Equities examines the outlook for companies in the Cigarettes Industry and provides equity research on Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) and Reynolds American, Inc. (NYSE: RAI). |
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| Toronto Stock Exchange Defers Consideration of Shareholder Rights Plan |
| MARKETWIRE - 08 Mar, 2013 |
| TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 03/08/13 -- Trimel Pharmaceuticals Corporation (TSX: TRL) (the "Company" or "Trimel") today announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") has notified it that the TSX will, in accordance with the practice of the TSX in connection with similar shareholder rights plans, defer its acceptance of the previously announced shareholder rights plan of Trimel (the "Rights Plan") until such time as the TSX has determined whether the Ontario Securities Commission will intervene pursuant to National Policy 62-202 - Take-Over Bids - Defensive Tactics. |
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| At Last! True ROI From Social Data |
| MARKETWIRE - 08 Mar, 2013 |
| SAN FRANCISCO, CA and AUSTIN, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 03/08/13 -- Building on top of their unique ability to determine personality and unique character traits from social media footprints, Whit.li today announces the simplest way yet for brands to understand the true composition of their social following. The Whit.li "brands app" enables companies to compare follower segments based on their interests, media habits and attitudes. |
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| Other Regional Headlines |
| Toronto mayor denies video showing him smoking cocaine |
| ABW - 18 May, 2013 |
| Washington, May 18 (ANI): Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has declined association with video-related clips that show him smoking cocaine. |
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| Bill Gates becomes world's richest man once again |
| ABW - 18 May, 2013 |
| New York: Bill Gates is once again the world' richest person.The 57-year-old co-founder of Redmond, ... |
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| Venezuela's Maduro Denounces US Remarks, Calls Obama Grand Chief of Devils |
| ABW - 05 May, 2013 |
| TEHRAN (FNA)- Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro took a swipe at Barack Obama, calling him the "grand chief of devils" after the US president declined to recognize his contested re-election. |
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| Democrat wants Nikki Haley to be sent back to 'wherever the hell she came from' |
| ABW - 05 May, 2013 |
| London, May 5 (ANI): South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian has defended controversial comments he made about Governor Nikki Haley. |
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| Barack Obama won't rush to act against Syria over chemical arms |
| ABW - 01 May, 2013 |
| Washington: President Barack Obama signaled on Tuesday he is no rush to respond quickly to ... |
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