U.S. and Hong Kong named as the most competitive countries in the world, according to data from “2011 World Competitiveness Yearbook”, released by by the Lausanne-based Institute for Management Development (IMD).
The New York Mets may have a future star at second base in Justin Turner. Mets fans are crossing their fingers after his fast start in 2011.
Organizations hoping to relocate applications into the cloud have five preferences: rehost on infrastructure as a service (IaaS), refactor for platform as a service (PaaS), revise for IaaS or PaaS, rebuild on PaaS, or replace with software as a service (SaaS), according to a report by Gartner Inc, an information technology research and advisory corporation providing technology related insight.
Nearly a month after PlayStation Network went offline, Sony has restored the services and has thanked its loyal fans by offering them free games, movies and music as part of a 'Welcome Back' package.
Alarmingly frequent bubbles and busts in copper, wheat, crude oil, silver and pretty much all other natural resources might now be the collateral damage of QE
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: VF Corp, Domino's, Saks, Cliffs Natural Resources, Carnival, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Douglas Dynamics, Hewlett-Packard, Western Refining and Phoenix New Media Ltd.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: Gushan Environmental Energy, China Digital TV Holding, Phoenix New Media, Gammon Gold and Beazer Homes USA. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Douglas Dynamics, Western Refining, Hewlett-Packard, Endeavor International Corp and Gerdau S.A.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Gulf Resources, Sino Clean Energy, Photronics, ChinaCast Education, On Track Innovations, and Novellus Systems. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Metabolix, Callidus Software, TICC Capital, Integrated Device Technology, and AVEO Pharmaceuticals.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was refused release on bail on charges of attempting to rape a hotel maid because he is considered a flight risk. As this allegation emerged, prosecutors are working to verify similar previous incident reports on sex charges against him.
Members of Obama's administration outlined their plans for cyber security.
Malaysia is home to an estimated 3,000 wild elephants. When the animals come under threat, members of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks relocate the massive creatures to protected sanctuaries. To date, at least 600 wild elephants have been successfully relocated.
With a gutsy shut-out performance on a wet, dreary day in Chicago, San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong earned a spot in the hearts of Giants fans. Now, it is up to team management, whether or not to reward Vogelsong’s play with Barry Zito’s spot in the starting rotation.
Following are the Oppenheimer's top equity ideas for May. The stocks are based on their view of the company's fundamentals in the context of current market conditions.
Los Angeles will be a U.S. leader in electric vehicle adoption, according to a new study published by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.
The Bengals need to give up on the idea that Palmer will return
Sony began restoration of its beleaguered PlayStation Network on Sunday, much to the delight of its nearly 80 million global customers that have waited nearly 4 weeks for the service to be restored.
Finally good news for anxious Sony PlayStation fans - the Japanese company tendered a heartfelt apology on Saturday and said it would begin restoring the PlayStation Network services as early as this Sunday.
Sony Japan told customers today that it would begin phased restoration of its services of its beleaguered Playstation Network which has been suffering from an outage for nearly a month.
Sony Japan told customers today that it would begin phased restoration of its services of its beleaguered Playstation Network which has been suffering from an outage for nearly a month.
Sony told customers that it is moving closer to restoring services to its beleaguered Playstation Network, saying earlier this week that it would take be a few days, but so after a week the network is still offline.
Sony Japan told customers that it is moving closer to restoring services to its beleaguered Playstation Network, but the announcement states that service wouldn't be restored everywhere immediately.
The Lakers have plenty of possible replacements for Phil Jackson