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Cryosat-2 Ready For LaunchDarmstadt, Germany (ESA) Apr 08, 2010 Following yesterday's launch dress rehearsal and the debriefing today, the Russian State Commission has given the go-ahead to launch ESA's ice mission tomorrow at 15:57 CEST. Today's go-ahead marks the last milestone along the road to launch the long-awaited CryoSat-2 satellite. By measuring the tiny variations in the thickness of ice floating in the polar oceans and changes in the vast ice sheets on land, the mission will provide scientists with hard evidence on the speed at which ice is diminish ... read more |
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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) April 7, 2010The UN will move 8,000 Haitians out of a makeshift camp to a new site almost three months after a huge quake ravaged the country, officials said Wednesday, but many more remain at risk as the rainy season approaches. In a race against the time, people left homeless by the January 12 earthquake will be moved from the Petionville golf club, which is prone to mudslides and flooding, to a new lo ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 7, 2010The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may seek to block Google's purchase of mobile telephone advertising company AdMob on anti-trust grounds, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the matter," said the FTC "appears to be laying the groundwork" for an anti-trust challenge to the 750-million-dollar acquisition announced in November. The re ... more 
Washington (AFP) April 7, 2010Online advertising revenue hit a record 6.3 billion dollars in the United States in the fourth quarter of the year, a bright spot in an otherwise dismal year, according to a report on Wednesday. Internet advertising revenue fell 3.4 percent in 2009 over 2008 to 22.7 billion dollars, according to the report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Ho ... more |
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Film futures market plan irks HollywoodNew York (AFP) April 4, 2010 Could you have predicted the record-shattering success of James Cameron's blockbuster film "Avatar?" Two US financial firms want to allow investors to bet on the commercial success of a film, but the notion of a futures market has drawn the ire of a broad coalition of Hollywood's entertainment industry. Arizona-based Media Derivatives is waiting for the green light from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a market regulator, to launch a new market dubbed the "Trend Exchange." If aut ... read more |
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