10 amazing group tours Toronto Sun | 2 sec. 3 sec. 4 sec. 5 sec. 6 sec. | Buy Sun Media photos | Europe's Rivers & Castles, AmaWaterways: Explore Europe's most stunning castles, scenic nooks and tranquil rivers on a group tour by ship with AmaWaterways. This 14-day vacation starts with a stay in Paris, before guests jet off to Luxemb...
Great Barrier Reef hurtling towards UN's 'World Heritage in Danger' List Newstrack India | Tweet | Sydney, Jan. 23 (ANI): The Great Barrier Reef near Australia could be stripped of its heritage status and placed on a UN list of world treasures in danger if action is not taken to better protect the natural icon from coal and gas developments, environment groups have warned. | A number of...
Elsevier Launches New Review Journal: Global Food Security Stockhouse | AMSTERDAM, January 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- | First issue now freely available on ScienceDirect | Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of a new...
McDonald's Sustainable Fish: All U.S. Locations To Serve MSC-Certified Seafood Huffington Post | Big news out of the McDonald's camp today: the chain will become the U.S.'s first national restaurant chain to serve certified-sustainable seafood at all of its locations. | Packaging for all fish dishes at McDonald's 14,000 U.S. locations will be ...
AdMonsters Strengthens Global Reach in Serving Digital Strategists PR Newswire | Google | LONDON, January 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- | AdMonsters Partners with Rising Media to Produce AdMonsters Conferences in UK and Europe | AdMonsters, the global leader in strategic insights on digital media and advertising strategy thro...
See Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in This Video Mashable | A scene from jOBS, the upcoming independent film about tech icon Steve Jobs, has surfaced and it gives us the first video glimpse of Ashton Kutcher as the former Apple CEO. | In this video, Jobs tries to persuade Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak that...
Singapore Joins Hunt for New Zuckerberg With Stanford-Style Dorm Bloomberg | As National University of Singapore students drifted to the college bar for Wednesday’s “Ladies Night,” Ishan Agrawal sat in his dorm’s common room, working out how to harness the Internet to fight corruption in India. | Agrawal, 22, is one...
Nokia 'Not Considering Android,' Plans Its Own Low-Cost Lumia Plus Asha Strategy Seeking Alpha | By Natasha Lomas | Despite recent suggestions that Nokia (NOK) is at least keeping an open mind about adopting Google's (GOOG) Android platform, the company has reiterated that it is sticking to its guns with Windows Phone and its homegrown S40-bas...
Amazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software To Compete Against Apple's Siri Seeking Alpha | By Ingrid Lunden | Amazon (AMZN) today announced that it is acquiring Ivona Software, a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies that competes with Nuance (NUAN) and is already used in the Kindle Fire for services covering text-to-speech, voic...
AppNexus Raises $75 Million Business Insider | Programmatic ad-buying exchange AppNexus just raised $75 million from TCV. | That's a lot of money! | It also makes AppNexus that much less likely to be acquired by Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, or Google any time soon. | It's may be too pricey...
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Let's bring relief to the reefs (Photos) The Examiner | Our delicate coral reefs are simply magical. They bestow a gift of nature upon us to admire. This has been the custom for millions of years now. | For that very reason, we must m...
Is rebuilding in hurricane zones wise? my SA | Washington -- Denise Tortorello, a real estate agent at Riviera Realty in Point Pleasant, N.J., said she can't tell yet where property values are headed since Hurricane Sandy dem...
Karl Rove touts Gov. Jindal a serious presidential candidate The Examiner | Former senior adviser for George W. Bush and political strategist Karl Rove told Louisiana business people this week in Baton Rouge that Gov. Bobby Jindal could be a serious cand...
Whole Foods CEO On Climate Change: John Mackey Says Warming Is 'Not Necessarily Bad' Huffington Post | Whole Foods CEO John Mackey shared his views on climate change recently, saying that he is "not a 'climate change skeptic,'" but, contrary to the scientific consensus, suggested that "climate change is perfectly natural and not necessarily bad." | ...
Review: 'Suburgatory' - 'Chinese Chicken' IMDb | A review of last night's "Suburgatory" coming up just as soon as I all the parks in the miniature city in my basement are clothing-optional... There were parts of "Chinese Chicken" that felt rushed — both in the rise...
Collective learning The Hindu In an effort to sensitize school children to protecting nature and the environment, the Young Men’s Christian Association organized a seminar presentation. Speaking at the occasion, the chief guest and resource person Dr. Stephan Scoffham, Prof...
Ice warnings as snow disruption continues BBC News There are warnings of ice across the UK, as snow continues to cause disruption in parts of the country. | Freezing temperatures are set to continue into Saturday, while forecasters warn of further snow for northern England and southern Scotland. | The Met Office has issued a yellow warning of ice, meaning take extra care, across many parts of the U...
Weather: Big Freeze Leads To Nine Deaths Skynews | The icy weather has led to the deaths of nine people from accidents and exposure to the freezing cold in the last week. Motorists walk back to their cars after a fire in Dartmoor blocked the road | Among those who died was 54-year-old James Hurst who fell over after he had been dropped off by taxi following an evening at a local pub on Saturday. ...