Sony's designs on your computer The Daily Telegraph Sony’s new laptops aim to look as good as they perform, and not cost the Earth. Matt Warman examines their chances in a cut-throat market. | Image 1 of 4 Sony's T-Series features a rectangular design, rather than the ultrabooks' usual wedge shape Image 1...
Obama weighs in on Euro economic crisis Independent online Camp David - Leaders of the world's most powerful nations were to focus their attention on Europe's economic woes on Saturday after President Barack Obama threw his weight behind French calls for more pro-growth policies. | Obama set the stage for a fractious G8 summit here by forging an alliance wi...
Austin Community College's video game program grows into key feeder for industry Austin American Statesman | In a recent class, Austin Community College student Richard Moss showed off his group's project: a demo of a submarine video game called "Treasures of Atlantis." | It was the end of the semester for a combined class of about 14 game designers and a...
World leaders back Greece, vow to combat financial turmoil Reuters | CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis....
WRAPUP 7-World leaders back Greece, vow to combat financial turmoil Reuters | * G8 favors boosting growth to balance austerity | * Obama reminds European leaders of high stakes in crisis | * G8 monitoring oil prices closely, ready to act | By Jeff Mason and Laura MacInnis | CAMP DAVID, Md., May 19 (Reuters) - World leaders b...
Turn Austin into city of peace for everyone's sake Austin American Statesman | Over the past weeks, I have listened to and read our community's reactions to a variety of issues affecting us: killings of people or animals whether by police or citizens, business incentives and fee waivers, the costs of utilities, banning of pla...
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FACEBOOK IPO LIVE: The social network goes public Kansas City Star Mark Lennihan Electronic screens inside the Nasdaq stock market announce the listing of Facebook shares before the start of trading, Friday, May 18, 2012 in New York. The world's d...
Spanish stocks focus of investor concern The Wichita Eagle | MADRID — The level of bad loans on the books of Spain's banks has risen to an 18-year high, the country's central banker reported Friday, increasing concern for the stabili...
With new competiton on way, some Austin-area hotels stepping up their games Austin American Statesman | As Austin gets set for an influx of new hotels, some of the area's existing hotel properties are stepping up their games with remodeling projects to stay competitive. | Among the projects in the works are a massive, 1,012-room convention hotel at E...
Financial crisis 'will drive up debt repayments for poorer nations' The Observer Primary school enrolment in Tanzania soared after the nation was granted debt relief in 2001. Photograph: Graeme Robertson | Poor countries can expect to see their debt repayments to the rest of the world increase by an average of a third by 2014, as...
Thai PM pledges to tackle rising consumer prices Xinhua | BANGKOK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday pledged that her government will expedite solving the problem of rising consumer prices, Thai News Agency reported. | The premier made her remarks as she visited a fresh produce market in central Nakhon Pathom province on her way to western province of Kanchanaburi for Sun...
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Hillary meets PM, Sonia; discusses nuke coop, terror Zeenews Zeenews Bureau | New Delhi:The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at 7 Race Course Road, the official residence of PM after meeting the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on late Monday. | Key strategic issues, including civil-nuclear cooperation, terrorism, situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iran an...
