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Elevator Ghost Footage That Freaks Out 1.3 Billion Asians
2008-05-12 23:09:00 This footage was recorded on February 21st 2008 at the Raffles City in Shanghai. Two men entered an elevator at approximately midnight, when both men1 Vote(s)
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AIG takes $9.1 billion write down - will raise capital immediately
2008-05-11 18:25:00 AIG the large financial congolmerate reported an $8 billion quarterly loss tied to $9.1 billion in credit-loss related write downs. It picked up a nice downgrade from Fitch for its troubles and also announced it will raise new capital immediately. Even better news for AIG shareholders is the company’s continued exposure to future losses in ...
Citigroup to Sell $400 Billion in Assets
2008-05-09 23:36:00 CEO Vikram Pandit plans to reduce its current assets by nearly $400 billion within the next three years. The will make Citigroup no longer be the largest bank. The bank currently owns around $2.2 trillion in assets, and has already announced plans to reduce its assets by $65 billion.
Foreigners Net Buyers Of VND51.6 Billion Of Shares
2008-05-09 13:04:00 Foreign investors were net buyers of VND51.6 billion ($3.2 million) of Vietnamese stocks Friday out of a total VND127 billion traded, the Ho Chi Minh Securities Trading Center said. Volume was 2.78 million shares, with foreigners accounting for 37.1% of the total, according to the stock market operator. (Dow Jones) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mayo Clinic Trustees Launch Public Phase of $1.25 Billion Philanthropy Camp
2008-05-08 23:24:00 Mayo Clinic's Board of Trustees today publicly announced Mayo Clinic's first comprehensive development campaign, including a $25 million leadership gift from the campaign's volunteer chair, emeritus trustee Bill Marriott. The Campaign for Mayo Clinic is a five-year effort to raise $1.25 billion in philanthropic support for medical research, education and clinical practice innovations that have the potential to revolutionize medicine in the 21st century as Mayo's founders did in the 20th century. Begun quietly in 2005, the campaign has raised $965 million to date for activities on all three Mayo campuses--Rochester, Minn.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz. The funds will support Mayo Clinic's strategic priorities, including:* Quality: Providing the best and safest care with excellent service while reducing costs. * Integration: Coordinating not only at the care-team level, but across Mayo's three campuses, as a learning organization to ensure that advances are c...
By: BasilandSpice
Foreigners Net Buyers Of VND121.2 Billion Of Shares
2008-05-08 14:37:00 Foreign investors were net buyers of VND121.2 billion ($ 7.58 million) of Vietnamese stocks Thursday out of a total VND304 billion traded, the Ho Chi Minh Securities Trading Center said. Volume was 5.4 million shares, with foreigners accounting for 57.7% of the total, the stock market operator said. (Dow Jones) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Linux Ecosystem to More than Double to $49 Billion
2008-05-07 21:55:00 Linux may be a free platform for many and a reasonably inexpensive alternative to Unix and proprietary platforms for others, but make no mistake. For years, Linux has been big business, and if projections made by the market researchers at IDC turn out to be correct, in a few short years the Linux server ecosystem spending on hardware, software, and services directly relating to the platform will hit $49 billion by 2011. That's more than twice the $21 billion in Linux-related server spending that IDC reckons the companies of the world accounted for in 2007.[Here are some more 'statistics' for you - Scott]
By: Server Tales
The Linux Ecosystem to More than Double to $49 Billion
2008-05-07 21:55:00 Linux may be a free platform for many and a reasonably inexpensive alternative to Unix and proprietary platforms for others, but make no mistake. For years, Linux has been big business, and if projections made by the market researchers at IDC turn out to be correct, in a few short years the Linux server ecosystem spending on hardware, software, and services directly relating to the platform will hit $49 billion by 2011. That's more than twice the $21 billion in Linux-related server spending that IDC reckons the companies of the world accounted for in 2007.[Here are some more 'statistics' for you - Scott]
By: Server Tales
The Linux Ecosystem to More than Double to $49 Billion
2008-05-07 21:55:00 Linux may be a free platform for many and a reasonably inexpensive alternative to Unix and proprietary platforms for others, but make no mistake. For years, Linux has been big business, and if projections made by the market researchers at IDC turn out to be correct, in a few short years the Linux server ecosystem spending on hardware, software, and services directly relating to the platform will hit $49 billion by 2011. That's more than twice the $21 billion in Linux-related server spending that IDC reckons the companies of the world accounted for in 2007.[Here are some more 'statistics' for you - Scott]
By: Server Tales
Sprint, Clearwire To Power $14.5 Billion WiMAX Initiative
2008-05-07 15:25:00 Sprint Nextel and Clearwire on Wednesday announced a $14.5 billion initiative to combine their wireless broadband businesses and form a new wireless communications company. Named Clearwire, the new company will focus on expediting deployment of the first nationwide WiMAX network to provide widespread mobile broadband. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is designed to provide wireless connections ...
$3.2 Billion Investment from Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable & Br
2008-05-07 13:13:00 So what does a $3.2 Billion investment from Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks get you? By the looks of things, it will be a new mobile broadband company. Today we are hearing that Print and Clearwire are to combine WiMAX businesses, and this will create the new mobile broadband company. The ...
By: Product Reviews
$3.2 Billion WiMax Deal Goes Through. Take Cover.
2008-05-07 08:06:00 The deal to combine Sprint Nextel’s and Clearwire’s fledgling WiMax businesses that was rumored last March is finally expected to go through. Comcast and Intel are supposed to put in $1 billion each; Time Warner, $550 million; Google, $500 million; and regional cable provider Bright House Networks, $100 million. The new company, which ...
By: Fat Matrix
UBS reports 1Q net loss $11 billion
2008-05-06 17:26:00 ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss bank UBS, hard hit by the U.S. subprime crisis, reported a first-quarter loss of $10.97 billion and said Tuesday it will slash almost 7 percent of its work force. The 11.5 billion Swiss franc loss compares with a net profit of 3 billion francs in the same period last year. The ...
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Foreigners Net Buyers Of VND108 Billion Of Shares
2008-05-06 13:43:00 Foreign investors were net buyers of VND108 billion ($6.8 million) of Vietnamese stocks Tuesday out of a total VND253 billion traded, the Ho Chi Minh Securities Trading Center said. Volume was 5 million shares, with foreigners accounting for 50% of the total, the stock market operator said. (Dow Jones) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mukesh ambani's billion dollar home.
2008-05-06 09:30:00 Mukesh ambani’s billion dollar home.Top floor have open space for the view of mumbai city and ocean. From ground floor to 6th floor there will be parking space for all cars including visitors. Plants will be grown all around in the building to keep away from heat. There will be separate floor for the health. There will be yoga, dance, gym, restaura and many more features in it. Sure there will be a theater in separate floor with DTS dolby and latest projectors. Theater will also have snack bar and wine room in it.All the material and interior design used in this home, will be unique. you will not see it any where in the world. There will be also separate rooms for business meeting, parties, guests, and others. No need to surprise that bathroom may be bigger than some good homes in india also in term of money. There will be siver stairs and crystal decoration on the ceiling. Kitchen will be busy all the days to serve hundreads of guests.
The world's first billion-dollar house
2008-05-06 04:48:00 Not long ago I wrote about my trillion-dollar fantasy and my $2 billion dream house.Today, I'd like you to meet Mukesh Ambani, the world's fifth richest man. He is building the world's first $2 billion house--for real.EXTERIOR Antilla, the partially completed home of Mumbai-based petrochemicals giant Reliance Industries head Mukesh Ambani, will stand 27 stories high and is expected to cost $2 billion. Ambani, the fifth richest man in the world, his wife and three children currently live in a 22-story Mumbai tower the family has spent years remodeling and refashioning to meet its needs.BATHROOM One of Antilla's key design themes is the mix of lavish features seen in worldwide homes and elements that are distinctly Indian. The Gingko-leaf sink designs are a good example. Native to India, the leaves in the sinks are shaped in such a way that their stems guide water into the bowl created by the basket of the leaf.TRADITIONAL LOUNGE Ambani's home features countless lounges, offering...
By: Inner Sanctum
New World Resources May Raise $2.2 Billion in Biggest Czech IPO - Bloomberg
2008-05-06 01:17:00 New World Resources May Raise $2.2 Billion in Biggest Czech IPOBloomberg - 1 hour agoBy Andrea Dudikova May 6 (Bloomberg) -- New World Resources BV, the Czech Republic's biggest supplier of coking coal to steel mills, expects to start ...
?I Want the Oil Companies to Pay That $8 Billion?: Clinton Explains Gas Pla
2008-05-05 23:20:00 I'm confused. What does Hillary think she's going to do to force oil companies to eat $8 billion? What does she think she's going to do when they tell her "no"? With the "gas tax holiday", who's to say that the savings have to be passed onto consumers? The plan is simple: Offer a bounty for electric/renewable resources cars. For example: Offer say $10 billion to the first car company that can put together a car that gets 100+ miles to the charge/refill, passes ALL safety tests, and costs less than $25,000. You simply HAVE to force the hands of companies who have been dragging their feet on renewable resource using cars. If you don't, we'll all be paying through the nose for gas until it's too late. First car company that can do the above mentioned car, can count me as their first customer. Until that time, I'm hypermiling, and I have turned my 2005 Civic EX from 31-33mpg to 46mpg with some BASIC changes in my driving habits...
Wait, the $360 Billion Check Guy Has a Girlfriend?!
2008-05-05 18:19:00 What kind of a moron tries to cash a $360 billion check? Better question, why does this moron have a girlfriend and I do not?
African food crisis: AfDB adds $1 billion to its agriculture portfolio
2008-05-05 13:57:00 Source: AfDB Tunis, 2 May 2008 ? The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Donald Kaberuka, announced on Friday, 2 May 2008, in Tunis that the Bank Group would add US$1 billion to its agriculture portfolio, raised to US$ 4.8 billion, as part of a short-term action to help address the food crisis in its ...
May 05, Foreigners Net Buyers Of VND44.3 Billion Of Shares
2008-05-05 13:55:00 Foreign investors were net buyers of VND44.3 billion ($ 2.77 million) of Vietnamese stocks Monday out of a total VND227.4 billion traded, the Ho Chi Minh Securities Trading Center said. Volume was 4.8 million shares, with foreigners accounting for 24.4% of the total, the stock market operator said. (Dow Jones) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The world fifth richest man with a net worth of $46 billion is all set to b
2008-05-05 06:52:00 While ordinary folks like you and I are busy fussing over what bank will offer us the cheapest home loan, Mukesh Ambani, the world?s fifth richest man with a net worth of $46 billion is all set to build a 22-storey home for his family of four. The gizmo-filled posh pad, named ?Antilla? is going ...
The World’s First Billion Dollar Home Sucks! How Would You Spend It?
2008-05-04 20:21:00 Just saw THIS pathetically un-embeddable video coverage of the world???s first billion dollar home???which is actually gonna cost $2 billion???and I felt pretty sick to my stomach. Sure, it???s just a small fraction of the guy, Mukesh Ambani???s, India???s richest person, $43 billion net worth and he has every right to what he wants with his hard earned money, but I couldn???t help but wonder how $2 billion might be better spent. For instance, for just about the same price Mukesh coulda woulda shouldla bought Wendy???s, whose 6,000+ stores bring in just over $500 mil in revenue each year. Or maybe take on a new industry by buying hot hot hot company Nanosolar. Then again, I guess a badass house is better than just throwing $2 billion away as Merrill Lynch chose to do Me: luxury goods and I don???t see to get along too well???I always lose or break them all???so I???d probly spend the money expand on my Tulane scholarship, building a worldwide financial education program???start youn...
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Inside Antilla - World?s First $2 Billion House
2008-05-04 05:47:00 The Ambani home, called Antilla, now available on Google Earth is being valued at $2 Billion and when completed, the residence will reach 550 feet into the sky and offer 400,000 square feet of living space. Normally that is the equivalent of a 60 storeyed tower, but in this case each floor is more than twice the height of a normal floor, with the result that the building will only have 27 floors when completed. Given the prevailing state of skyscrapers in Mumbai, this building will be more than twice as tall as the earlier tallest buiilding. The view from the top will be breathtaking, no doubt. Ambani's net worth was at $43 billion in March 2008.Kind of makes Bill Gates? $125 million home look like some sort of slum. Some other absurd facts about Antilla.1. 3 helipads on top. Mumbai corporation has not given permission for making this operational yet. 2. Hanging gardens within the structure 3. Swimming pool within the structure 4. A two storey Health centre 5. Parking space for 168...
Wild, Wacky & True: Man Tries to Cash $360 Billion Check
2008-05-03 17:08:00 Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company. The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business. Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immediately suspicious — perhaps the 10 zeros on a personal check tipped them off. Fuller, of suburban Crowley, was arrested on a forgery charge. He was released after posting $3,750 bail. Fuller said his girlfriend’s mother gave him the check to start a record business. But bank employees who contacted the account’s owner said the woman told them she did not give him permission to take or cash the check. In addition to the forgery count, Fuller was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon and possessing marijuana. Officers reported finding less than 2 ounces of marijuana and a .25-caliber handgun and magazine in his pockets. The man is an utter genius!
Exxon Reports 10 Billion Dollar Profit for the Quater
2008-05-03 00:46:00 There are about 300 million people in the U.S.A. If you gave each one $1 million, that would be $300 million. If you gave them $3 million, that would be $900 million. A BILLION is a Thousand Million? Exxon could give every person in the U.S.A. Three million dollars, and it would still not be a Billion Dollars. And their PROFIT for the last three months, was Ten Billion Dollars. And that was just ONE Oil Company?.. Paying too much for electricity ??? Duke Energy reported a PROFIT for the quater of $455 million.
By: Wildman's blog
Man arrested in Texas for trying to cash $360 billion check
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2008-05-02 13:33:00 AP - Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company. The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business. Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immediately suspicious — perhaps the 10 zeros on a personal check tipped them off.
Billion Dollar Home of Mukesh Ambani
2008-05-02 12:24:00 World's first Billion Dollar home is under construction, in India. The 27-storey skyscraper being built in Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani, could be the world's largest and costliest home with a price- tag nearing two billion dollar. Forbes magazine reported it in a report titled, "Inside The World's First Billion-Dollar Home." A Billion Dollar home! Can you believe this?After completion of construction work in January, Antilla, the Ambani residence will be 550 feet high with 4,00,000 square feet of interior space. The design of this skyscraper is based on Vaastu. Atop six stories of parking lots, Antilla's living quarters begin at a lobby with nine elevators, as well as several storage rooms and lounges. Down dual stairways with silver-covered railings is a large ballroom with 80 per cent of its ceiling covered in crystal chandeliers.Mukesh Ambani is the head of the Reliance Industries, an oil and petrochemicals giant. With a net worth of 43 billion dollars, Mukesh Ambani is the riches...
Thomson Reuters Won't Be a $15.6 Billion Mistake, Will It?
2008-05-02 11:32:00 When Thomson bought Reuters last month for $15.6 billion, they wasted no time in replacing the wire agency’s jellyfish-y logo with a bland orange starburst. They really screwed us over when we had to be at the Reuters building for a meeting and COULD NOT FIND IT because it was missing its big blue sign....
World?s First Billion Dollar Home
2008-05-02 01:59:00 Mukesh and Nita Ambani are building a new home! It will be 27 stories (550 feet) tall, and contain 400,000 square feet of interior space. But only 40,000 to 50,000 square feet will be dedicated to solely residential living space. The “garage” consists of six floors, and will hold 150 - 175 cars. The “house” will be located in ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "World’s First Billion Dollar Home", url: "http://www.phoenixrealestategu-y.com/worlds-first-billion-doll-ar-home/929" });
A fake cheque of £180 billion
2008-05-01 16:36:00 Can you dare to cash a fake cheque of £180 billion? A Texan man has actually dared to do so! Charles Ray Fuller, 21, went to the Chase Bank in Fort Worth with the £180 billion cheque and tried to cash it. But employees at the bank became suspicious after looking at the amount and called the account holder to verify it. Then the real thing came out and police arrested the guy.The account holder said that the suspect, Charles Ray Fuller, 21, was her daughter's boyfriend and did not have permission to take the cheque or cash it. So, police arrested Fuller on suspicion of fraud, along with unlawfully carrying a weapon and possession of marijuana.Interestingly, Fuller claimed before police that he was starting his own record label and had been given the money by his girlfriend's mother to help him start it. Man, are you kidding?
Share buybacks in India touch a record $1.1 billion
2008-05-01 14:00:00 MUMBAI: Notwithstanding the global credit concerns and high interest rates and growing inflationary pressures back home, share buyback deals in India are at record hig10 Vote(s)
By: Market Buzz
General Motors Reports $3.3 Billion Loss
2008-04-30 23:51:00 Struggling auto manufacturer, General Motors, reported a $3.3 billion loss for its first quarter. A huge drop in automobile sales here in the states have slowed down sales for the company. General motors also posted $1.45 billion in write-downs related to its mortgage division.
GM Posts $3.25 Billion Q1 Loss
2008-04-30 20:38:00 General Motors (GM) just can’t seem to escape its funk. The automaker is reeling from lender GMAC’s problems, a supplier strike, and its still money-losing North American business The auto company reported a first-quarter loss of $3.25 billion on Apr. 30, a huge turn in the wrong direction from the small profit it reported in the first ...
Deutsche Bank RREEF To Invest $1 Billion In Indian Real Estate, Infrastruct
2008-04-29 20:00:00 Deutsche Bank has officially rolled out their real estate investment management business - RREEF Alternative Investments (RREEF) - in India. The firm has5 Vote(s)
By: Market Buzz
[Scary] By 2100, there will be 1 billion people in the US, and about half o
2008-04-29 17:03:00 USA Today
U.S. population to hit 1 billion in 2100, prof says
2008-04-29 16:36:00 It’s often difficult to get the attention of my students. But when I told them that it’s possible that a few of them would see the year 2100, and that most of their children surely would, they stopped furtively texting under their desks and began paying attention. When I was born just after World War II, I told them, the population of the United States was about 141 million; of the world, about 2.7 billion. Now, 62 years later, Americans tip the scale at about 303 million; the world’s population has grown to about 6.6 billion. A little extrapolation of U.S. Census data, I told them, shows the American population hitting 518 million at mid-century and 758 million in 2100. The world’s population is likely to grow to 14 billion at century’s end. Imagine what that world ? their world ? would be like, I challenged them. But I was too optimistic. In a report to be released today, a Virginia Tech professor estimates that between 2100 and 2120 the population of...
Waterworld? Australian Gvmt To Buy $2.9 Billion in Water
2008-04-29 13:47:00 Australia's government promised Tuesday to spend about $2.9 billion to buy river water from farmers in a bid to address the country's worst drought in a century. The spending is the most expensive component of a $12.
By: Get rich
Zimbabwe: Home of the $10 Billion Hotel Room
2008-04-29 05:59:00 Sometimes numbers are deceiving. Case in point, a recent article concerning some scrupulous hotel and lodge operators in Zimbabwe, Africa. Government officials, set to launch a new “Save the Rhino” campaign have cracked down on the hiking of hotel and lodge prices to tourists. “An undisclosed number of Zimbabwe Tourism Authority officials were ...
By: The Adventurist
April 28, Foreigners Net Buyers Of VND131 Billion Of Shares
2008-04-28 13:46:00 Foreign investors were net buyers of VND131 billion ($8.2 million) of Vietnamese stocks Monday, out of a total of VND289 billion traded, the Ho Chi Minh Securities Trading Center said. Volume was 8.9 million shares, with foreigners accounting for 32.9%, according to the stock market operator. (Dow Jones) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Miley Cyrus, America's billion-dollar girl sensation
2008-04-27 21:08:00 LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Fifteen-year-old Miley Cyrus stars in a wildly popular Disney television series, sings to packed conc...
Is a New $10 Billion Dollar Project Planned for Las Vegas?
2008-04-27 20:01:00 You really have to Love Las Vegas. Where else in the United States would anybody even be considering a new Billion dollar project in the current state of the U.S. economy, much less a $10 Billion Dollar Project? Las Vegas already has the biggest project in North America currently under construction with the $9 Billion ...
6 BILLION OTHERS - the voice of the planet
2008-04-26 21:55:00 A couple of years ago, french photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand amazed us with a breathtaking perspective on ourselves: THE EARTH FROM ABOVE is a series of aerial photographs that reveal the stunning beauty of our planet. Now Yann is back. And he has landed his helicopter. To meet the people that inhabit the landscapes he’s been portraying ...
ICICI posts net profit of $1 billion
2008-04-26 19:46:00 India's second largest bank ICICI Bank Ltd posted a net profit of $1 billion (Rs.40 billion) during 2007-08 as compared to $775 million of the previous fiscal.8 Vote(s)
By: Market Buzz
Billion Indians but only few qualified
2008-04-24 23:57:00 By Buster As India continues to add to its already humongous population of over a billion, there is a sense of hope all around of our youthful demographics stealing a march over China. But when you talk with senior managers across in7 Vote(s)
By: Market Buzz
StumbleUpon milestone - five million users, five billion stumbles
2008-04-23 22:55:00 I am a big fan of StumbleUpon. I believe it is very underrated in the blogger community on the amount of quality traffic it can get you. Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. That’s right, 5,000,000th. (At the time TechCrunch reported this today it was at 4,994,826 registered users). Even though that number ...
goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com the next billion dollar compan
2008-04-23 16:24:00 Uptime monitoring service Pingdom.com has put together a list of thousands of domain names owned by Google based on an analysis of the root zone file. Sahar Sarid noticed TechCrunch picked up on the story and displayed a list of some of the more interesting domain names: * 30dayfitness.com * bayareaburritos.com * donationcard.com * essentialmommy.com * greengardengifts.com * mariolovespasta.com * thesecretofburritos.com * goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-oooooogle.com * google4kids.com * ...
Bank of England Announces $100 Billion Banking Rescue
2008-04-22 18:32:00 In an effort to restore liquidity to the U.K. financial markets, the Bank of England (BOE) yesterday (Monday) announced a $100 billion (50 billion pounds) rescue plan. The plan, similar to the U.S. Federal Reserve?s lending initiative, will allow U.K. banks to swap illiquid mortgage-backed assets for government bonds. The BOE hopes the plan will encourage ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bank of England Announces $100 Billion Banking Rescue", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/-22/bank-of-england-announces-10-0-billion-banking-rescue/" });
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