BBC came under severe fire from the broadcasting union Bectu and the National union of Journalists (NUJ) on Saturday after reports suggested that the company was planning to axe BBC Asian Network and 6 Music to keep its cost under control.
Leaders from both the unions had met BBC Director on Friday. Post meeting they said [...]
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Unions oppose BBC on Asian Network and 6 Music
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Batman beats Superman at the auction
Just days after the auction site ComicConnect.com claimed to break world records when it sold an original Superman Comics at $1 million, Batman took no time to steal the show. A rare, high-quality copy of ‘Detective Comics #27’, which marked the first appearance of Batman in 1939, sold for a whopping $1,075,500 on Thursday as [...]
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Gatorade drops Tiger Woods as brand ambassador
The sports-based drink from Pepsi’s stable Gatorade recently confirmed the fact that it has ended its relationship with Tiger Woods as the brand ambassador for Gatorade. It’s the third major brand to drop Woods from its marketing campaigns in the past couple of months following months of allegations of extramarital scandal, which has played out [...]
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EU warned Google for violation of privacy in street view
Google’s street view technology is now once again in trouble. Google’s Street View service launched in the United States in 2007. Google Street View now adds photo of real-life scenes from cities around the world to Google’s maps.
The European Union ordered Google through a letter to delete captured pictures after six months of its [...]
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Antarctic iceberg could end marine life
According to some scientists a massive iceberg has struck Antarctica, blocking another giant block of ice from a glacier.
The Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young, had further discovered that the two ice blocks are floating together about 62 to 93 miles off the eastern.
The 97-kilometer long iceberg, equivalent to the size of Luxembourg, had [...]
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Facebook’s wish granted- a concern for the rivals
Facebook the most popular social networking site has been granted with patents which were long awaited for. It’s a measure that potentially culminates other social network providers at their start.
It’s in line of the fact that laid the foundation stone of social networking, keeping a steady track of their friends and their ongoing activities. To [...]
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Facebook e-mails divert to wrong recipients
Wednesday night, a problem reported on Facebook, a social networking site routing e-mails to the wrong addresses which was quickly resolved. It was a serious problem, imagine your very personal conversations leak out & reach to any other’s mail box.
Facebook said, “Our engineers diagnosed the problem moments after it began and are working to get [...]
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VMW buying Software Assets from EMC for $200 Million
World leader in the information infrastructure and data storage company EMC Corp. and Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware Inc., global leader in virtual solutions from desktop through data center to the cloud has entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of some software products and expertise by EMC Ionix IT management business to VMware for [...]
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Kettle Foods of Salem sold for $615M
Nuts and snacks seller Diamond Foods Inc enter in to an agreement buy premium potato-chips maker Kettle Foods from a London based private equity firm Lion Capital LLP for $615 million all in cash, to double its presence in the growing potato chip market.
With acquisition of Kettle Company will synergies its revenues and expand [...]
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AIG posts a narrower loss in the fourth quarter
American International Group Inc. posted a loss for the fourth quarter but the Insurer managed to keep it down comparing to the loss reported in the same period last year. The loss reported in the fourth quarter ended December 2009 was mainly attributable to the charges tied to paying down its bailout debt and boosting [...]