News tagged with industry
BP says US oil spill trial could 'last until 2014'
British energy giant BP is prepared for a multi-billion-dollar US legal case into the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill to last until 2014, its chief executive told the Sunday Telegraph.
Feb 26, 2012 |
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A wild online ride hits the digital piracy wall
On his way up, he fooled them all: judges, journalists, investors and companies. Then the man who renamed himself Kim Dotcom finally did it. With an outsized ego and an eye for get-rich schemes, he parlayed ...
Feb 25, 2012 |
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Bazaarvoice, Proto Labs surge in market debuts
(AP) -- A splashy Wall Street debut by Bazaarvoice Inc. and Proto Labs Inc. is the latest sign that investor appetite for initial public offerings has rebounded after a dismal IPO market in 2011.
Feb 24, 2012 |
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Games for nature
Can digital games and virtual worlds help us save nature? Conservation scientists Bruno Monteferri, Chris Sandbrook and Bill Adams explore whether computer gaming is a new frontier for conservation.
Feb 24, 2012 |
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Amadeus posts 2011 profit of 453.7 bn euros
The Spanish group Amadeus, a world leading technology provider for the travel and tourism industries, posted on Friday a jump of 657 percent in 2011 net profit, owing to one-off effects.
Feb 24, 2012 |
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The high price of losing manufacturing jobs: research
The loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs is a topic that can provoke heated arguments about globalization. But what do the cold, hard numbers reveal? How has the rise in foreign manufacturing competition actually affected the ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 23, 2012 |
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New family of legless amphibians found in India
Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India - unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Engineers develop cement with 97 percent smaller CO2 and energy footprint
Drexel engineers have found a way to improve upon ordinary Portland cement (OPC), the glue that's bonded much of the world's construction since the late 1800s. In research recently published in Cement and Concrete Composites ...
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Canada threatens trade war with EU over oil sands
Canada has threatened to lodge a World Trade Organization complaint against the European Union if the bloc labels oil from Alberta's tar sands as highly polluting, documents published Monday show.
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Fused genes tackle deadly Pierce's disease in grapevines
A gene fusion research project led by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist delivers a one-two punch to Pierce's disease, a deadly threat to California's world-renowned wine industry.
Feb 20, 2012 |
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The fate of a thin liquid filament (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have solved one of the printing industry's greatest challenges - whether a liquid thread will break up into drops.
Feb 20, 2012 |
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NEC develops smartphone solution that automatically recommends the appropriate path of incoming calls
NEC Corporation announced today the development of smartphone software that automatically recommends the best path for a user's incoming calls based on the software's estimate of a smartphone's movement. This solution is ...
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Glaciers: Fossil fuel signature found in Alaskan ice
New clues as to how the Earth's remote ecosystems have been influenced by the industrial revolution are locked, frozen in the ice of glaciers. That is the finding of a group of scientists, including Robert ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2012 |
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Youth shaping future of online TV, movies, music
(AP) -- Young people want their music, TV and movies now - even if it means they get these things illegally.
Feb 19, 2012 |
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US sites hacked as objections grow to piracy deal
(AP) -- Opponents of a controversial global copyright treaty counted three victories Friday as American government websites were hacked and the Eastern European nations of Poland and Slovenia distanced themselves from the ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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