06/11/2013

Twitter IPO looks imminent, at higher price

Twitter was on the verge of revealing the price of its stock offering Wednesday, giving the popular messaging platform a value of around $15 billion, media reports said.

300 Blockbuster video stores to close in US

The final curtain is falling on about 300 Blockbuster locations scattered around the United States, meaning the once dominant video-rental store chain will have just 50 franchised stores remaining open in the U.S.

Possible evidence of Arafat poisoning is reported

Swiss scientists have found evidence suggesting Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with a radioactive substance, a TV station reported Wednesday, prompting new allegations by his widow that the Palestinian leader was the ...

Singapore vows to hunt down Anonymous hackers

Singapore will "spare no effort" to hunt down hackers from activist group Anonymous who last week threatened to wage a cyber war against the government, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Wednesday.

Companies close to reusing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

Reusing the major greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial plants—rather than releasing its warming potential into the environment—is on the verge of becoming a commercial reality. Several large chemical companies ...

Team unveils carbon nanotube jungles to better detect molecules

(Phys.org) —Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have developed a new method of using nanotubes to detect molecules at extremely low ...

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