CBS Moves Ahead With Some Layoffs in News
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008News operations at several local CBS stations started a series of job cuts this week as the network itself, CBS News, moved ahead with plans to lay off about 1 percent of its nearly 1,200 employees.
author By BILL CARTER, source www.nytimes.com
Senate Moves Ahead on Bills to Deal With Housing Slump
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008The 94-to-1 Senate vote was a clear sign of a growing consensus that further government intervention is needed to stem the crisis.
author By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and VIKAS BAJAJ, source www.nytimes.com
Stocks Surge on Hopes Financial Woes Are Easing
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Investors hoped that mortgage-related write-offs at UBS and Deutsche Bank could signal the last of Wall Street’s subprime woes.
author By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, source www.nytimes.com
Market Place: Study Is Setback for Some RNA-Based Drugs
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008A study published by the journal Nature is raising doubts about one of the hottest fields in biotechnology, RNA interference.
author By ANDREW POLLACK, source www.nytimes.com
To See a Stock Market Bubble Bursting, Look at Shanghai
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008After two years of soaring share prices, the Shanghai composite index has plunged 45 percent from its high, reached last October.
author By DAVID BARBOZA, source www.nytimes.com
March Sales Decline for Top 4 Automakers
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Executives said they are bracing for the industry’s slump to continue for at least several more months.
author By NICK BUNKLEY, source www.nytimes.com
Housing Bills Advance in Senate
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008The 94-to-1 Senate vote was a clear sign of a growing consensus that further government intervention is needed to stem the crisis.
author By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and VIKAS BAJAJ, source www.nytimes.com
Stocks Surge as Wall St. Hopes Financial Woes May Be Easing
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Investors hoped that mortgage-related write-offs at UBS and Deutsche Bank could signal the last of Wall Street’s subprime woes.
author By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, source www.nytimes.com
March Sales Decline for Top Three
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008The month was expected to be one of the worst for automakers since 2005 because of consumers’ worries about the economy.
author By REUTERS, source www.nytimes.com
O’Reilly, the Auto Parts Chain, Buys a Rival
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008O’Reilly Automotive said it would buy CSK Auto Corporation for $528 million, adding a West Coast presence for the parts retailer.
author By REUTERS, source www.nytimes.com
Reynolds Ads Oppose Move to Regulate Tobacco
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Reynolds, whose brands include Camel cigarettes, is attacking the F.D.A. as weak and overextended amid a congressional effort to empower the agency to regulate the tobacco industry.
author By STEPHANIE SAUL, source www.nytimes.com
Microsoft Open Format Standard Said to Get Global Approval
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Microsoft won an international standards designation for its open document format, apparently ending a year-long battle with some of its software rivals before a global standards-setting organization.
author By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN, source www.nytimes.com
National Standards to Rank Physicians Planned
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008The agreement represents a truce between doctors and health insurers in their long-standing dispute over how health plans rank physicians’ efforts in taking care of patients.
author By REED ABELSON, source www.nytimes.com
March Sales Decline at Ford and Toyota
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008The month was expected to be one of the worst for automakers since 2005 because of consumers’ worries about the economy.
author By REUTERS, source www.nytimes.com
tool kit: For Entrepreneurs, It’s All About Time
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Becoming more productive without having 25 hours in a day.
author By PAUL B. BROWN, source www.nytimes.com
CDU Enables Intelligent Control for Liquid Cooling of up to TenEquipment Racks
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008s (AFCOM) Data Center World conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Data center professionals from around the world are meeting at Data Center World to address key industry issues including data center…
author PR Web, source feeds.bignewsnetwork.com
Will Diesel Save the World
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008I recently returned from an extended stay in Europe, where most new cars run on diesel. Those cars are typically a lot more fuel-efficient than our gas guzzlers, which makes me wonder why there aren’t…
author Slate, source feeds.bignewsnetwork.com
The largest mobile ad network now serving ads for more than 3900 publishers worldwide
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008PRWEB ) April 1, 2008 — At the onset of the 2008 Spring CTIA-Wireless Tradeshow, AdMob announced today that they have served their 20 billionth advertisement, making it the first mobile adverti…
author PR Web, source feeds.bignewsnetwork.com
River sand mining banned in China’s largest freshwater lake
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008China banned river sand mining in Poyang, the country’s largest freshwater lake, on Tuesday to protect its aquatic environment. An official from the water resources department in the eastern Jiangxi P…
author People’s Daily, source feeds.bignewsnetwork.com
Japan economic gloom deepens
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Japanese business confidence has hit a four-year low as fears grow that corporate profits will be hit by slowing US demand, a report suggests. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) quarterly Tankan survey of 10,…
author BBC, source feeds.bignewsnetwork.com