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'Electric cars cause more pollution than petrol ones' Zeenews London: Though electric cars are heralded as an environment friendly solution in major cities, a study says their pollution levels are worse than petrol-powered vehicles. | A study on pollution in 34 Chinese cities found that electricity generated by power stations to drive electric vehicles leads t...
Yahoo's talks to sell Asian assets unravel Austin American Statesman | SAN FRANCISCO — As Yahoo tries to head in a new direction, the fate of the struggling Internet company's Asian holdings remains in limbo. | The negotiations to sell Yahoo's stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan abruptly broke off in...
Yahoo faces investor mutiny as Asia talks unravel Austin American Statesman | SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo's hopes for a fresh start under a new CEO faded Tuesday as its closely watched discussions to sell most of its Asian holdings unraveled and a frustrated shareholder announced that he will try to seize four seats on the s...
Apple bows to criticism over work conditions NZ Herald | Thousands of Chinese factory workers will be given the chance to detail the punishing conditions on assembly lines producing Apple iPads and iPhones after the United States company bowed to criticism and agreed to allow independent inspections of i...
Second City in China Halts Sales of Apple iPads The New York Times | BEIJING — The authorities in a second Chinese city were said Tuesday to have begun seizing iPads from local retailers in an escalating trademark dispute between Apple and an insolvent maker of computer displays, Proview Technology. | The tabl...
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Alibaba's wily Ma faces big Yahoo test Khaleej Times If anyone can pull off the labyrinthine deal between Alibaba Group and Yahoo Inc, it is Jack Ma, who founded the e-commerce group and within a decade unlocked China's huge online s...
Lenovo Warns About Global Hard Drive Shortage Newsfactor Lenovo Group Ltd., the 's second-biggest personal maker, said Thursday that quarterly profit grew by more than half but warned hard-drive costs would remain high amid a global shor...
EU seen approving Google's Motorola deal: sources Canada Dot Com | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google Inc is expected to win approval next week from European regulators, as well as from U.S. antitrust authorities, for its planned $12.5 billion purch...
AP: Yahoo's talks to sell Asian assets unravel Breitbart SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - As Yahoo tries to head in a new direction, the fate of the struggling Internet company's Asian holdings remains in limbo. | The negotiations to sell Yahoo's stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan abruptly broke off in a ...
AP: Yahoo's talks to sell Asian assets unravel Springfield News-Sun | SAN FRANCISCO — As Yahoo tries to head in a new direction, the fate of the struggling Internet company's Asian holdings remains in limbo. | The negotiations to sell Yahoo's stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan abruptly broke off in...
Chinese trademark row threatens global shipments from iPad manufacturers The Examiner | The issue of the iPad trademark in China is escalating quickly. As we wrote earlier, official had begun confiscating iPads as a trademark dispute between Apple and Proview Technology heated up, but now Proview has gone further, asking customs ...
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Deadly bird parasite evolves at exceptionally fast rate PhysOrg | When thousands of wild house finches started dropping dead from a mysterious eye infection in the Washington, DC, area in the winter of 1994, scientists were puzzled. | The birds had red, swollen, crusty eyes that left them unable to see or forage for food, until they eventually died from starvation or predation. Researchers soon identified the c...