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May 13 2008 5:26 AM
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Emphasys Medical Inc., which developed a medical device to treat emphysema, has canceled its plans for an initial public offering, citing market conditions, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday. In September 2007 when Emphasys filed for the IPO, the company estimated that the offering price could total up to $86.3 million. The same month, Emphasys filed for premarket approval of its first product, the Emphasys endobronchial valve.
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Apr 29 2008 4:36 AM
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Company sources revealed that the all new edition of call/ contact center consulting services has enabled customer interaction management a lot more easier. They further stated that these consulting services are capable enough to bring out a completely new revolution that will entirely change the way business operates these days. With its advance features, it easily manages several tasks that were quite difficult to handle otherwise.
"After utilizing highly advance call center consulting services your business will grow far and wide within no time.
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Apr 28 2008 2:57 AM
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When Eos Airlines Inc. launched its first flights in 2005, the startup carrier named for a Greek goddess came with enthusiastic business travelers looking for more space who didn't mind hefty fares for premium service across the Atlantic. The airline reconfigured Boeing 757s meant for 220 passengers with 48 seats that could extend into a fully flat bed. Flights served wine, champagne, cocktails and gourmet foods. There were individual DVD players, and helicopter rides to the airport were offered to some travelers. The price for the New York to London flights, which it offered twice a day, ranged from $3,500 to $9,000 roundtrip.
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Apr 25 2008 2:34 AM
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Chinese and European Union leaders launched a high-level dialogue Friday on tensions over China's swelling trade surplus with Europe amid friction about Tibet. "Our meeting today marks a significant step towards the strengthening of the strategic partnership between China and Europe," European Commission President Manuel Barroso told Premier Wen Jiabao as they met in the Great Hall of the People, the seat of China's legislature. The 27-nation EU is stepping up pressure on Beijing for action over its trade surplus, market barriers and currency controls -- areas where Washington long took the lead.
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Apr 23 2008 4:41 AM
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Online auction company eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) owns just over 28% of classifieds company Craigslist. eBay bought in during 2004. Now, eBay is suing Craigslist and its management for diluting its share in Craigslist, something it contends the classified company can not do. "The recent actions by the Craigslist directors have disadvantaged eBay and its investment in Craigslist," Michael Jacobson, eBay's senior vice president and general counsel according to The New York Times. All of this is a great mystery. eBay has not said what it paid for its stake.
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Apr 15 2008 4:12 AM
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The mobile banking segment in the country is set to receive a big boost following the decision of State Bank of India (SBI) to roll-out its mobile banking service within a month. The public sector lender is understood to have finalised a technology partner to take the service to its nearly 1 crore customers pan-India, a senior bank official told PTI here today. SBI will join a handful of banking majors including Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays, Union Bank and Yes Bank, who are already active in this space. "The technology platform is ready for the launch of the mobile banking service.
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Apr 10 2008 4:49 AM
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Special prosecutors have summoned Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee for a second round of questioning, an official said Thursday, as a probe into alleged corruption at South Korea's largest business conglomerate nears an end. Lee has been called to appear Friday afternoon at the office of the independent counsel conducting the investigation, said an official at the office, refusing to give her name. Yonhap news agency earlier quoted Yun Jung-sok, a senior prosecutor, as saying Lee would be summoned. "That's how we understand it," Samsung Group spokesman Yim Jun-seok said in response to a call seeking confirmation. He had no further comment.
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Mar 28 2008 5:22 AM
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Jan 29 2008 10:35 PM
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Jan 21 2008 11:04 PM
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abid
LG electronics debuted the world's only Blu-ray/HD DVD player, the Super Multi Blue, at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, CES. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jan 20 2008 10:24 PM
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Jan 13 2008 10:14 PM
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abid
Last week's CES featured quite a number of new devices running on Linux. It is unfortunate that I could not make it to Las Vegas to personally check out the cool gadgets so I rely on others to feature it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jan 01 2008 10:47 PM
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abid
Happy New Year! Since starting this blog in June 2006, I've talked a lot about the tools and resources needed to bootstrap a business without significant investment. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dec 27 2007 11:04 PM
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Oct 29 2007 12:39 AM
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abid
NBC and Fox are set to launch an advertising-supported online video site that hosts programming from varied entertainment companies in a bid to seize viewers from Google Inc.'s YouTube, the broadcasters said. A test version of the site, Hulu.com, goes online Monday, with plans to premiere a final version in a few months, company officials said. The site, developed by News Corp. and NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co., offers free viewing of full-length films and TV episodes, supported by advertising. Read the rest of this entry »
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it would
launch the advanced version of its Xbox 360 game console, Xbox
360 Elite, on October 11 in Japan, a country where sales of its
game gear trail far behind rival machines from Nintendo Co.
Ltd. and Sony Corp....
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When CNBC announced that it was investigating "unusual trading" by finalists in its million-dollar stockpicking contest last month, Greyson Masters felt cheated. A middle-of-the-pack finisher in the field of 20 in the contest's final round, Masters says the outsize gains by some contestants now under suspicion of breaking the rules ....
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Upper Deck Co. said on Monday
it would launch a hostile tender offer to acquire baseball
trading card company Topps Co. Inc. <TOPP.O> for about $425
million.
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The British company ArmorGroup International seems to thwart its domestic rival as it likely to offer $475 million bid for U.S. security contract in Iraq, to provide shields to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and gathering intelligence for the Army....
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Canadian Media mogul Thomson Corp. seems to create a biggest data company as the Reuters Founders Share Foundation set to back the takeover deal.
Now the acquisition looks almost certain to go ahead because the Reuters Founders Share Company has...
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As rankings go, it may not have the popular appeal of Mr. Blackwell's annual Worst-Dressed List. But business leaders and policymakers pay plenty of attention to the World Competitiveness Yearbook issued every May by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), a business school in Lausanne....
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Hedge funds are fueling some of the biggest fortunes in history. For evidence of the funds' success, check out their managers' take-home pay: Jim Simons, the founder of Renaissance Technologies, took home $1.7 billion in 2006, according to Institutional Investor's Alpha....
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