News Analysis: Some might say that Google is Apples biggest threat, but when it comes to revenue in the mobile market, Motorola and Samsung stand above the rest. – Apple is undoubtedly a
mobile powerhouse. The companys iPhone is selling like gangbusters and its
iPad continues to dominate that market. By the looks of things, it doesnt seem
that there is a single company in the mobile marketplace that has any chance of
threatening Apples position.
Of cour…
Meet The Biggest Loser’s newest trainers. Ever since Jillian Michaels announced that she will be leaving her post as the hard-driving trainer on NBC’s The Biggest Loser at the end of the season, Reality Fans have been eagerly waiting to meet the latest additions to the training panel. On Tuesday night we got our first [...]
The biggest scaremongers regarding the threat from terrorism are themselves promoting terrorism.Don’t believe me?Well, Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh says that the Bush administration (and especially Dick Cheney) helped to …
Singer Taylor Swift says her father is her biggest fan and supports her professionally. “My dad (Scott Kingsley Swift) is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans,” contactmusic.com quoted her as saying. Swift also [...]
Ronald Reagan gave big tax cuts to the wealthy.So it is dramatic that Reagan’s director of Office of Management and Budget – David Stockman – calls the Bush tax cuts “the biggest fiscal mistake in history”.Specifically, Stockman told Dylan Ratigan that…
Patrick House lost more than 200 lbs. and gained a hefty cash prize on Tuesday night’s season finale of The Biggest Loser. The 28-year-old sales rep from Vicksburg, Mississippi won the 10th season of NBC’s popular weight loss reality competition and took home the $250,000 prize. Seven months ago, House was a 400-pound, pre-diabetic, and [...]
Jillian Michaels has barked her last order on NBC’s The Biggest Loser. On Friday, Michaels confirmed that she will bid adieu to the popular weight loss reality competition at the end of its current season to take some time off to concentrate on becoming a mom. With the exception of a brief absence in 2006, [...]
Government of Singapore Investment Corp. said it more than doubled its stake in China International Capital Corp., making it the second-largest shareholder of the first Sino-foreign investment bank.
GIC, the manager of more than US$100 billion ($131 billion) of Singapore’s reserves, increased its stake to more than 16.35% from 7.35%, Jennifer Lewis, spokeswoman of the city’s sovereign wealth fund, said today in response to a query. The stake was bought from Morgan Stanley.
In the first definitive sledge launched against Australia by a cautious England side since its arrival three weeks ago, middle order batsman Kevin Pietersen has taken aim at captain Ricky Ponting”s aggressive approach. Ponting has made a point of targeting Pietersen and rival skipper Andrew Strauss at every chance since August, but Pietersen has hit [...]
The world’s biggest ever ‘kiribath’, or rice cake, has been prepared in Sri Lanka to celebrate the re-inauguration ceremony of Mahinda Rajapaksa as the country’s President on Friday. Rajapaksa took the oath of office on an open-air stage outside his seafront office. According to the BBC, some 12,000 kilograms of white rice, 1,500 coconuts and [...]
The rise in Singapore office rents exceeded the 3.2% average for Asia but lagged the 10.8% increase in Hong Kong over the same period.
One thing is for sure – the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be the biggest television event in history. The sudden announcement has forced networks to shuffle the schedule, reports the Age. Taking the cue from William”s parents” wedding at London”s St Paul”s Cathedral in 1981, which was witnessed by about [...]
Two large studies from Northwestern Medicine have confirmed that a healthy lifestyle has the biggest impact on cardiovascular health. “Health behaviors can trump a lot of your genetics,” said Donald Lloyd-Jones, chair and professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a staff cardiologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “This research shows [...]
News Analysis: Facebook, the world’s top social network, is offering a new messaging platform that will rival Gmail. Now it’s possible that eventually Facebook could best Google, at least in the e-mail space. – When it comes time to look at Google and its prospects for the
future, few see it as a company that should worry. After all, the search giant
reigns supreme in search and other online services and continues to expand its
empire in the mobile business. It’s arguably positioned more effectively tha…
Miranda Kerr, who is expecting her first child with husband Orlando Bloom, has revealed that she will not rush back to work after giving birth insisting her career is no longer her biggest priority. “For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn”t complex at all,†the Sydney Morning Herald quoted her as [...]
Armed with 500 million users and 2 million-plus Like buttons worldwide, Facebook stands to gain the most from investing in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)’ sFund venture. – Lost in the sound and fury over Kleiner Perkins Caufield amp; Byers’ (KPCB’s)
creation of the sFund was the fact that investor Facebook stands to gain the
most from the new venture.
Amazon, Facebook, social gaming giant Zynga, Comcast, Liberty Media and
Allen amp; Co. Oct. 21 joined venture c…
Global Logistic Properties (GLP) (GLPL.SI) is set to raise $3.9 billion ($3.01 billion) if it exercises its greenshoe option, making it Singapore’s second-biggest IPO since SingTel’s (STEL.SI) $4 billion float in 1993.
Global Logistic Properties (GLP) (GLPL.SI) is set to raise $3.9 billion ($3.01 billion) if it exercises its greenshoe option, making it Singapore’s second biggest IPO since SingTel’s (STEL.SI) $4 billion float in 1993.
Microsoft is prepping the biggest Patch Tuesday update yet, with a total of 16 security bulletins. – Microsoft is poised to break its record for the most Patch Tuesday security
bulletins ever for the second time in 2010.
On Oct. 12, the company is set to release 16
security bulletins to cover a total of 49 vulnerabilities in Windows,
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office and the .NET
framework. …
Live Internet TV | Online TV technology allows you to watch over 4,500 HD channels right on your PC.
