Archive for ‘March, 2010’

Master 2010: Tiger Woods quickly back in the old routine with his old friends at his side

Master 2010: Tiger Woods quickly back in the old routine with his old friends at his side

Back with his old team: Tiger Woods checks the wind on the 15th tee with his caddie Steve Williams Photo: GETTY IMAGES She has every right to be dismayed not just by the haste of Tiger Woods’s reapplication from marriage counselling to chipping practice, but [...]

Recharging debate, Obama expands offshore drilling (AP)

Recharging debate, Obama expands offshore drilling 
    (AP)

AP - Shaking up years of energy policy and his own environmental backers, President Barack Obama threw open a huge swath of East Coast waters and other protected areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico to drilling Wednesday, widening the politically explosive hunt for more homegrown oil and gas.[Read more...]

Netvibes Makes It To Profitability By Appealing To Businesses

Netvibes Makes It To Profitability By Appealing To Businesses

Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini announced today that the startup founded five years ago has finally made it to profitability. The site has seen a lot of changes since then. It began as one of the original Web 2.0 personalized homepages, became a distributed widget platform, changed CEOs (when founder Tariq Krim stepped [...]

Dow’s Quarter Ends With Slip

Dow’s Quarter Ends With Slip

Stocks ended 2010’s first quarter with a thud as oil’s rally to a 17-month high weighed on the rest of the market, especially consumer companies. Markets Data Center Most Actives | Gainers | Losers New Highs and Lows | Money Flows Intraday Futures [...]

Kapoor designs 2012 Orbit tower

Kapoor designs 2012 Orbit tower

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Anish Kapoor: ‘I wanted the sensation of unstability’ [...]

Phones knocked out by flood at BT

Phones knocked out by flood at BT

People with affected phone lines will be unable to make emergency calls, warns BT. A major flood at a BT exchange in Paddington, London has affected broadband and telephone services across the UK.In a statement BT said it could not predict when either [...]

Nationalists issue terms for deal

Nationalists issue terms for deal

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Party leaders Alex Salmond and Ieuan Wyn Jones on a hung parliament’s ‘opportunities’ [...]

Kate Middleton: marshmallow-eater, party-planner, future Queen

Kate Middleton: marshmallow-eater, party-planner, future Queen

Kate Middleton has interesting views on party planning Photo: Getty She speaks! For many moons it had been assumed that Kate Middleton was not actually human – hair too glossy, teeth too white, skin too smooth – but some sort of mute android sent to the [...]

Sarah Palin to host first Fox News TV show

Sarah Palin to host first Fox News TV show

Sarah Palin on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Photo: REX Mrs Palin, the biggest draw in the Republican party since he resigned as governor last summer to pursue other interests, is viewed as a front-runner in the stakes to oppose President Barack Obama in the [...]

Obama clears way for oil drilling off US coasts (AP)

Obama clears way for oil drilling off US coasts 
    (AP)

AP - Reversing a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores, President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced an expansive new policy that could put oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.[Read more...]

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