New Delhi: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) faces fresh criticism after The Sunday Telegraph alleged that it made factual errors and used poor sources of evidence in a report on the potential of wave power. The...
Economics Sterling: The pound tumbled to an 8½-month low against the dollar as investors fled to the safety of the greenback amid concern about the continuing fiscal difficulties of some eurozone countries. UK housing market: Activity slowed in January, as snow...
Andrew Witty is not quite as young or as buff as Anderson Cooper, but he does do interviews in shirtsleeves from the slums of Nairobi and rural hospitals in Uganda. What makes that unusual is that Mr. Witty is not a roving CNN anchor, but the chief executive of...
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- USANA HealthSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: USNA) today was named a finalist in Contact Center of the Year category in the fourth annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service. The awards will be presented on February 22 in...
fashFASH-RETRO4.jpg Photograph by: Kim Hyug-Hoon, Reuters AMSTERDAM – More than a century into its existence, Philips is once again betting heavily on semiconductors. This time the consumer electronics firm is looking to harness their potential as a source of light. The...
CHICAGO, Feb 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) today reported sales and earnings for the fourth quarter and full year of 2009. Fourth Quarter Highlights -- Sales for the fourth quarter of 2009 were $127.9 million, a 21% increase compared to the...
When Terry Pratchett described, in his Dimbleby lecture last week, his father's cheerful macho stoicism – when all the tubes are in and "I'm no good to anybody, tell them to switch me off" – I recognised something of my father's own attitude to death in the last...
* Philips sees LEDs outpacing conventional light by 2015 * Lessons learned from semiconductors: packaged "solutions" * Price a hurdle while availability ramps up By Aaron Gray-Block and Harro ten Wolde AMSTERDAM, Feb 8 (Reuters) - More than a century into its existence,...
LAFAYETTE, La., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stone Energy Corporation (NYSE: SGY) today announced that for 2010 the Board of Directors has authorized a capital expenditure budget of $400 million. This figure compares with a $300 million capital budget for 2009 and...
