- UncategorizedGoogle buys DoubleClick for $3.1 billion
Friday, April 13, 2007 Google has announced its intention of taking over the Internet advertising agency DoubleClick in a deal worth $3.1 billion. DoubleClick has also confirmed the deal and hopes it will be completed before the end of 2007.…
- UncategorizedMOEA Taiwan signs MOUs with 5 global WiMAX companies to connect with networking industry world-wide
Monday, October 22, 2007 VIPs at Press Conference for the Memorandum of Understanding Signing between MOEA Taiwan and Global WiMAX Companies. At the 1st day of WiMAX Forum Taipei Showcase & Conference, Ministry of Economic Affairs of R.O.C. Taiwan (MOEA…
- UncategorizedEdmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer
Thursday, November 8, 2007 Edmund WhiteAll photos: David Shankbone What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett…
- UncategorizedBelgian Archbishop lectures on health care and religion
Friday, March 23, 2007 Yesterday, Belgian Archbishop Godfried Danneels visited the Catholic University of Leuven to give a lecture on health care and religion, entitled “Care for the body, care for the mind”. Some 120 people, mainly professors at the…
- UncategorizedLondon court jails man after Dark Web ricin sting
Friday, September 18, 2015 Mr Justice Saunders today imprisoned a man for eight years at the Old Bailey in London after an FBI sting in which he tried to buy ricin on the Dark Web. Everyone needs to know that…
- UncategorizedLarge chimpanzee shot and killed by police in US after it attacks woman, officers
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 A 200-pound pet chimpanzee has been shot and killed by police in Stamford, Connecticut in the United States after it got loose from its cage and attacked a woman. The chimp has been identified as ‘Travis’…
- UncategorizedLatest trial of the One Laptop Per Child running in India; Uruguay orders 100,000 machines
Thursday, November 8, 2007 India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During…
- UncategorizedPolice track kidney doctor to Brampton, Canada
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Interpol handout. The hunt for alleged kidney harvester, Dr. Amit Kumar, has led investigators to Brampton, a city in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) of Ontario, Canada. Indian investigators allege that Kumar is the kingpin of…
- UncategorizedCanada’s Scarborough East (Ward 44) city council candidates speak
Wikinews This exclusive interview features first-hand journalism by a Wikinews reporter. See the collaboration page for more details. Saturday, November 4, 2006 On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for…
- UncategorizedAgriculture’s impact on human evolution clarified
Thursday, March 9, 2006 University of Chicago, Illinois biologists Dr. Benjamin Voight, Dr. Sridhar Kudaravalli, Dr. Xiaoquan Wen and Dr. Jonathan Pritchard have identified regions of human DNA showing the strongest marks of natural selection within the last 5,000 to…