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Google Mum About Buying Groupon for $2.5B

Google has allegedly acquired Groupon for $2.5 billion, giving it a major weapon in the local deals war with Yahoo, Facebook and other Internet powers. – Google has allegedly acquired local deals startup Groupon for $2.5 billion,
which would mark the company’s second-largest acquisition, after its $3.1
billion DoubleClick deal.
VatorNews cited an quot;unnamed insider quot; confirming the deal,
though Google declined to comment quot;on rumor or…


Singapore to meet $25b a year biomedical output target

Singapore will meet or exceed a target of $25 billion a year in biomedical manufacturing output by 2015, the city-state’s Economic Development Board said at a briefing today.
 
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Government to spend $2.5b over 5 years on labour training

Singapore will spend $2.5 billion over five years in continuing education and training, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam told Parliament in the nation’s budget speech today.
 

CapitaMall Trust raises notes’ ceiling to $2.5b

CapitaMall Trust Management, a unit of Southeast Asia’s biggest developer CapitaLand (CATL.SI), has raised its ceiling of a multi-currency medium-term note programme to $2.5 billion from $1 billion.

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Unused Servers Cost Businesses $25B Annually: Study

A survey sponsored by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy found that one in six servers about 4.7 million worldwide are doing nothing useful, costing businesses as much as $25 billion a year. The survey of global IT professionals also found that many are lacking the necessary tools and know-how to find and get rid of unused servers.
– About one in six servers worldwide are doing nothing useful for their companies, wasting about $25 billion a year, according to a survey of global IT managers.
The study, conducted by Kelton Research and commissioned by automation software maker 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy, found that about …