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Microsoft announces plan to acquire GitHub for US$7.5 billion
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 On Monday, United States technology giant Microsoft announced their plans to acquire GitHub, a San Francisco, California-based web-based hosting service for software version control using Git, for 7.5 billion US Dollars (USD). In the official announcement at the Microsoft News web site, the company said they Continue Reading
Prince Harry of Wales to be awarded for humanitarian work
Monday, April 23, 2012 The UK’s Prince Harry of Wales is to be presented with a humanitarian award for Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership by the Atlantic Council, according to an announcement made by St James’s Palace today. The recognition is for serving war veterans and the armed forces. He is to Continue Reading
Local council in Australia rejects McDonald’s development plan
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 The development application for a McDonald’s restaurant at Minyama, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in Australia, has been rejected by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council. “We knocked back a Hungry Jack’s on Nicklin Way because of the nuisance code,” said divisional councilor Chris Thompson. “We already have Continue Reading
Google claims that lawsuit threatens Internet
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Google, the owners of YouTube, claimed in a court briefing today that the one billion dollar lawsuit against the company “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information.” Viacom Inc. is suing Google over 150,000 videos, for which Viacom owns the copyright, that Continue Reading
Elon Musk sells $3.6 billion in Tesla stocks, company in debt
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Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control
Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the Continue Reading
Indian banks propose to use gold deposits as CRR/SLR
Monday, June 30, 2014 State Bank of India (SBI) and Bank of Baroda (BoB), two of the largest public sector banks of India, proposed on Saturday their gold deposits should be allowed to count toward their state-mandated cash reserve ratio (CRR) or statutory liquidity ratio (SLR). Arundhati Bhattacharya, the chairperson Continue Reading
Google, Sun Microsystems to collaborate on software development
Friday, October 7, 2005 On Tuesday, Google and Sun Microsystems announced that they are working to get software such as Google Toolbar and OpenOffice.org (both products of Google and Sun Microsystems, respectively) more widely available. The companies stated that this collaboration will make software by each respective company more enhanced. Continue Reading
Annual rich list shows Ireland now has six billionaires
Sunday, April 3, 2005The annual Sunday Times Rich List published today showed that Ireland now has six euro billionaires, up from four last year. The combined wealth of Irelands 250 wealthiest is €42.3bn. Topping the list was the new entrant Hilary Weston with a fortune estimated at over €7.2bn. Weston Continue Reading