Chennai, Sep 22 (IANS) At a time when big American financial corporations are falling like nine pins, software giant Microsoft Corporation joined five other non-financial corporate debt issuers in the US to be assigned a AAA rating by Standard and Poor’s Rating Services (S&P).
London, Sep 17 (IANS) University of Sunderland scientists have developed a hydrogen-powered car believed to be a step forward in creating a mass-produced green machine.
Sydney, Sep 19 (IANS) Latest fertility treatments helped younger and older women in Australia and New Zealand conceive 10,522 babies in 2006, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Kolkata, Sep 15 (IANS) Global computer-microprocessor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Monday described India as an “investment hub” and said it would give more focus on the Indian computer market in the coming years.
New York, Sep 16 (IANS)In the banking industry’s biggest restructuring since the Great Depression, stand-alone securities firms such as Lehman, Merrill and the now-defunct Bear Stearns are on the wane, giving way to more old-fashioned commercial banks which chase customer deposits and build branch networks.
Dubai, Sep 16 (IANS) A leading global consumer electronics major Tuesday launched what it claims to be the world’s only television with the holy Quran built in.
New York/Washington, Sep 16 (DPA) The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and fears of more looming bank failures sent US investors running for the hills Monday in the latest sign of a deepening credit crisis in the US.
Bangkok, Sep 15 (DPA) Asia’s main stock markets in Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong were closed for bank holiday Monday, but the rest of the region’s bourses dropped sharply on news of Wall Street’s deepening financial crisis.
New York, Sep 10 (IANS) Apple, the consumer electronics giant, has unveiled new versions of its popular iPod music player, but failed to deliver the surprises that finicky investors have come to expect from CEO Steve Jobs.
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) When Larry Page and Sergy Brin, two geek graduates of Stanford University, started a search engine called BackRub, they had no idea it would go on to become Google, the world’s biggest search engine, and would land them in Forbe’s richest peoples’ list.