Icahn pares Yahoo stake with sale of 12.7M shares
(AP) -- Financier Carl Icahn, one of Yahoo Inc.'s largest stockholders, has sold 12.7 million shares to whittle his holdings in the slumping Internet company down a percentage point to a 4.5 percent stake.
Aug 31, 2009
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Chips' year-over-year sales fall 18 percent in July, SIA says
Global chip sales fell a little more than 18 percent in July from the year-earlier period, but in a sign of improving demand, semiconductor revenue rose on a month-to-month basis for the fifth time in a row, an industry group ...
Aug 31, 2009
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Feds review mountain-dwelling pika for threatened-species list
No such thing as ethnic groups, genetically speaking
Central Asian ethnic groups are more defined by societal rules than ancestry. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genetics found that overall there are more genetic differences within ethnic groups than betwee ...
Aug 31, 2009
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Toxins in Lake Michigan fish linked to diabetes
This is a fish tale in which smaller is better than bigger, especially if the catch is to be eaten in any quantity.
Aug 31, 2009
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Businesses vulnerable to cyber attacks
Most of us think cyber crooks cast their phishing lines mostly to try to hook everyday consumers. But some businesses across the country have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars vanish from their bank accounts after cyber ...
Aug 31, 2009
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Lost sounds of the past brought to life (w/ Video, Audio)
Salpinx, barbiton, aulos, syrinx. Never heard them? Never heard of them? Neither had anyone else, for centuries. Until now.
Aug 31, 2009
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Does the distance a patient has to travel affect where they choose to get their care?
Do patients choose where to get their care based on how long it takes to them to get there? Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have recently documented a growing trend in the centralization of cancer surgery—more patients ...
Aug 31, 2009
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OpenAjax Alliance Delivers Software for More Secure Enterprise Mashups
The OpenAjax Alliance announced today the approval and availability of OpenAjax Hub 2.0 as an industry standard for more secure Web 2.0 mashup applications. Advances in security in Hub 2.0 can help protect enterprise mashups ...
Aug 31, 2009
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Pittsburgh paper to launch 'members-only' website
As US newspaper publishers mull charging readers on the Web, a Pennsylvania daily announced plans on Monday to put some content behind a pay wall.
Aug 31, 2009
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Overdiagnosis since introduction of prostate cancer screening
The introduction of prostate-antigen screening, or PSA, has resulted in over 1 million additional men over the last 23 years being diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer—most of whom were likely overdiagnosed, researchers ...
Aug 31, 2009
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Retail medical clinics can provide care at lower cost, similar quality as other settings
Retail medical clinics located in pharmacies and other stores can provide care for routine illnesses at a lower cost and similar quality as offered in physician offices, urgent care centers or emergency departments, according ...
Aug 31, 2009
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Huge chest of drawers hoisted aboard space station
(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle and station moved a giant chest of drawers from one spacecraft to the other Monday, and hitched it to the orbiting outpost.
Aug 31, 2009
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MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission
Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.
Aug 31, 2009
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