News tagged with investment group
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?
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.
Feb 09, 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 & Earth / 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.
Other Sciences / 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.
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.
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.
Jun 26, 2010 |
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Offer puts value of at least $6.5B on Facebook
(AP) -- How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to put it at $6.5 billion to $10 billion.
Jul 13, 2009 |
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