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redletterdave writes "On Thursday, former Boston Red Sox pitcher and tech entrepreneur Curt Schilling fired his entire staff at 38 Studios, his Rhode Island-based video game company, leaving more than 300 employees without jobs because the company couldn't repay its debt to the state. 38 Studios failed to pay Rhode Island's economic development agency $1.1 million, which was due last week, and ...

In airline news today, Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer (ERJ) said it is preparing a bid to sell light attack aircraft to the U.S. Air Force by the end of next month. The military is expected to make a decision in 2013. The move comes after the government cancelled a $355 million contract with Embraer and [...]

Amazon has added thousands of more items, ranging from bars of soap to rice cakes, to its site, which were previously considered uneconomical to ship because of the item's size, weight or low price.

David Moyes is chasing FC Copenhagen’s £6million-rated Senegalese striker Dame N’Doye – but will have to sell one of Everton's star names make the deal happen.

Why new cookie rules have angered the advertising industry

(Reuters) - The maker of a new digital video recorder that lets viewers skip television commercials at the touch of a button has asked a federal judge to let it sell the product, in a challenge to broadcast TV networks that oppose the technology.

There is no legitimate basis for concluding that Obama has failed American workers. Bush and changes in the global economy did that. These indisputable facts point to the vital question of when a president should be held responsible for job destruction and creation.

Sell puts on the world's largest retailer to buy its resurgent stock if they go on sale.

Smart businesspeople sell at the top of the market, and that time is now for a baseball owner, writes media columnist Jon Friedman

Mexican artist Diego Rivera's painting ‘Girl in Blue and White’ failed to find a buyer despite being the main attraction at a Latin American art auction in New York, organisers said.

Last month, Rakesh Rai sold $500 at a small vend on Delhi’s Janpath to mop up over Rs 25,000 and clear a loan he had taken from his roommate. But dealers, mostly unauthorized, on this street full of tourists are complaining that there are few like Rai who are coming forward to sell greenbacks they had saved from an overseas trip.

Also: Even in worst-case scenario, analyst believes SNC-Lavalin a compelling buy

F1 owners sell 21 per cent of the business for $1.6billion ahead of a planned flotation on the Singapore stock exchange this summer.

QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The Ukraine National Olympic Committee launched an investigation on Tuesday and suspended a top official accused of offering to sell thousands of dollars worth of tickets for the London Olympics on the black market.

In the last episode of TechStars, we watched a pair of teams pivot toward new concepts and deal with the consequences of that decision. In this epis…

I'm not the first to say the obvious, but the FT appears to have misunderstood the world: Some investors accused Facebook of taking advantage of enormous demand to sell at an inflated price it says, commenting on the way FB's shareprice dropped from $38-ish to $34-ish. To which the answer is... WTF do you think FB is, a charity? If you're overwhelmed by people desperate to hand over cash in e...

It would appear one man’s “overhang” is another man’s “catalyst“: Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster this afternoon cut his rating on shares of Yahoo! (YHOO) after the company announced a deal late yesterday to sell part of its stake in Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. That deal had prompted BGC Capital’s Colin Gillis to upgrade [...]

The announcement caps at least a year of on-and-off talks as Yahoo tried to sell its stake.

LONDON (Reuters) - British bank Barclays said it is to sell its 19.6 percent holding in U.S. asset manager BlackRock, worth $6.1 billion and which it has held for almost three years.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. may finally be nearing a deal to sell a part of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba....

Utah Sen. Mike Lee saw up-close how the housing bust can affect home owners, being forced to sell his dream home just months after taking of ...

The House of Representatives has voted to require the United States to sell 66 new fighter jets to Taiwan, with lawmakers saying the deal would close a growing military gap with China.

ADELE may be one of the world's highest selling artists, but there's one thing she can't sell - magazines.

Tim Tebow is definitely down with Jesus ... but he ain't down "MY Jesus" t-shirts -- and he's threatening legal action because he says a website is illegally using his name to sell the merchandise.TMZ obtained the cease and desist letter Tebow's…

by sanjeev kumar “It’s a rare opportunity for me to interact film and television business with the foreign national and specially film makers of international repute “ said Sandeep Marwah while conducting a master class at Gdansk Documentary Film Festival ay Gdansk, Poland.  Answering to the questions from the jam packed auditorium Marwah said, ”fifteen million people watch cinema e...

The Limpopo health department is planning to sell oversupplied medicine to other provinces to ensure stock was used before it expired.

Baseball commissioner has been putting off a decision on whether the team can move from Oakland to a new facility in San Jose, which the San Francisco Giants claim as their territory. Selig has to settle the situation once and for all.Of all the indignities visited upon Frank McCourt over the last couple years — fan boycotts, pickets outside Dodger Stadium, "Frankrupt" T-shirts — McCourt never ...

For those keeping score, .ME has been having one heck of a 2012 with strong support from major startups and big sales happening every single week. One of the areas where .ME has really shined is mobile where app developers are seeing .ME as a great extension to build their brands on. Given that mobile [...]

VOUCHER using a photo of missing girl British girl Madeleine McCann to sell discounted holidays in Portugal has outraged her family.

The Phoenix Coyotes are a step close to having an owner after three years of waiting

Company has $22B USD in assets, but is unlikely to be willing/able to sell them for different reasons

Wenn es so weitergeht wie in der ersten Mai-Woche, könnte sich die alte Börsenweisheit "Sell in May" bewahrheiten. Auch politische Faktoren sorgen für ein hohes Maß an Ungewissheit. Experten halten weitere Verluste deshalb für wahrscheinlich.

Die alte Börsenregel sagt: "Sell in May." Aber was ist mit den anderen Monaten? Wir zeigen ihnen wie der Dax die vergangenen zwölf Jahre abgeschnitten hat und ob die Wintermonate wirklich die Sommermonate schlagen.

THE CASE FOR ultimately approving the Keystone XL pipeline — always strong — has grown stronger. A key environmentalist argument against Keystone XL has been that the project would encourage the extraction of bitumen, a particularly dirty oil-like substance, from the “oil sands” in Alberta. If activists could “shut in” Canadian bitumen, limiting the ability of oil companies to sell the product,...

"Sell in May and go away" is an old trope on Wall Street, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been worthwhile advice.

Luxury cars are selling fast in Luanda, the capital of Angola.

The world's biggest tobacco company have gone to court in order to prevent the Australian government from forcing them to sell in unbranded packets.

AN ARTICLE in yesterday’s edition,concerning fees paid by the Government on outside consultants, stated that Minister for Health Dr James Reilly spent €300,080 on a report on the capitalisation, authorisation and sale of the VHI which the Government then decided not to sell. In fact, by the time the report was commissioned, the Government had decided against the sale and the report was instead ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A man whose response to jury duty was "No, no, no, no, no" and who said he'd rather be sleeping was nevertheless found qualified to remain a potential juror in Roger Clemens' perjury trial, which won't finish seating a panel before Monday....

Soccer:Mario Balotelli insists he feels lucky to work with Roberto Mancini and has no intention of moving away from Manchester City. Fresh doubts were cast over Balotelli’s future after he was sent off in the recent game against Arsenal and Mancini admitted he could be ready to sell the striker in the summer.

B&Q staff are to be allowed to enter homes, decide how to make them more energy efficient and then sell their own green products to householders, under a new Government scheme.

Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) major Marico Ltd, famous for brands such as Parachute coconut oil, Kaya skincare service, Saffola brands of oats and wheat flour, on Monday said it will sell 4.6% in the company to two foreign investors for up to R500 crore. The company will use the proceeds to fund acquisition of the personal care business of Paras from Reckitt Benckiser.

AUSTRALIANS have told of an aged care industry in crisis and of being forced to sell the family home to get care in a health emergency.

A Sony-led group has offered to sell several music catalogues which generated 15 million euros in royalties last year to win EU approval for its planned buy of record label EMI’s music publishing business, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday.  

A DECISION taken this week by five southern African countries to sell rhinoceros horn as a way to undermine poaching has been criticised by a leading conservationist, who says it will only increase the illegal practice.

Shane Cultra’s post about increased domain inquiries at Frank Schilling’s Internet Traffic outfit, clearly shows something that Sedo and other parking companies need to take note of. The increased number of inquiries and offers aren’t due to the beautifully crafted landing pages that Frank offers. Actually, I’m being sarcastic about the look of those headers [...]

The Japanese government is looking at selling shares in Japan Post to raise money for post earthquake and tsunami rebuilding.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has announced an agreement Monday night to sell the bankrupt team for $2 billion to a group that includes former Lakers star Magic Johnson and former Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals President Stan Kasten....

The couple look like they may be in L.A. for good, with their $28 million back home for sale

A girl wants to sell her 1.6m long hair.

AUSTRALIAN modern art is almost unknown abroad and our museums must do more to build overseas contacts, says the incoming Art Gallery of NSW head.

Over the past decade, the Japanese fashion chain Uniqlo has become among the most successful retailers in the world. Its success is due in large part to the fact that it has found a way to sell basic stuff that is not only affordable but also stylish and durable. And . . .

Even human law encourages sexual depravity and lust by its legalization of contraceptives, prostitution, swingers clubs, homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Apart from abortion, pornography is perhaps the most pressing issue of our age. It is a big business that victimizes everyone including those who market and sell it

Some airports offer travelers toe-tapping reasons to tune-in to the TSA spiel and security announcements.

Despite losing over $250 million last year, the company remains optimistic.

A Toronto animation studio is shopping a new series The F'n Osbournes based on the life of Ozzy Osbourne and his family Cuppa Coffee Studios who previously produced MTV's Celebrity Death Match and Comedy Central's Ugly Americans is hoping to sell 20 episodes of the stop-motion series at the Cannes...

THE World Club Challenge is Geoff Toovey's chance to show the NRL world the joint hasn't fallen down in the wake of Des Hasler's defection.

KIM Kardashian is showing off her body again to sell her goods, posting topless and bra shots.

PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. biotech firm Monsanto said on Tuesday it does not plan to sell its genetically modified maize MON810 in France this year, nor after, even though the country's highest court overturned a 3-year ban in November.

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In an increasingly fragmented music world, Adele managed to sell 13 million copies worldwide of sophomore album 21.

OUR STAFF REPORTERSHERGARH - The police have registered a case against four men under section 489-F of the Pakistan Penal Code for fraudulently issuing a bogus cheque of Rs1.3 million to a man here the other day. Tariq Mehmood s/o Shaukat Ali, a resident of Bunga Sodhiwala, told the police that he was a farmer and used to sell his crops to the accused Bashir and his sons Muhammad Ayub, Faqeer M...

You’d never know on the campaign trail that Newt Gingrich is no longer at the helm of his for-profit enterprise. There, his presidential activities and book-selling business mingle as one. In a hotel ballroom in Naples, Fla., late last month, Gingrich regaled political supporters with a rousing stump speech — then sidled over to a table in the corner to sell books. In Charleston, S.C., a few d...

FANS of an iconic anti-establishment band express dismay that a song is being used by a major store.

Walmart has announced a deal with Ticketmaster to sell tickets to events via in-store video screens Ticketing kiosks are being built into several of the big box chain's store across the United States which will allow customers to browse and purchase tickets for music sports theater and other events The...