SA tycoon donates half his wealth :: South Africa's richest black man, mining magnate Patrice Motsepe, announces he is giving away half his wealth to improve the lives of the poor.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21259399#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Hotel giants: Global visas are key :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/GOfULM4-Pdw/
Is this the game-changer on climate? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/rkLyixTONJM/index.html
Rise of China creating conflict :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/RU0AVSUCtls/index.html
Photo Release -- Campaign to Fix the Debt, Business Leaders Continue Push for Comprehensive Agreement Over Debt :: WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Tuesday, January 8, the Campaign to Fix the Debt and NASDAQ OMX held a press conference to underscore the importance of continuing to pressure lawmakers and the Administration to agree on a comprehensive, bipartisan plan to bend down the unsustainable trajectory of our national debt. Businesses of all sizes from every sector of the economy have criticized the recent last-minute budget agreement for failing to provide the confidence to bolster growth. The Campaign and its affiliates remain as focused on this essential issue as ever, and expect our nation's leaders to be similarly engaged over the coming months. On Tuesday, prominent business leaders and senior Campaign leadership discussed their continued push for a bipartisan deal large enoug...
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Cocaine, Parke-Davis, Freud, Halsted, Statins, And Detroit :: Here: the story of how cocaine was discovered by the Europeans and Americans, how it affected two giants of medicine-- and how it played a key role in Detroit's economy and in the formation of what was once one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies. (Source: Consultant Live)
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CEO: 'Dopey' U.S. to hit fiscal cliff :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/oOBt7qUBZjs/index.html
With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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Trump: Europe is open for business :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/bYdx54Kzaqc/index.html
Iceland's tourism boom :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ZgN-21gvjgw/index.html
Spending on Physician Services Crawls Out of RecessionSpending on Physician Services Crawls Out of Recession :: A slowly improving economy helped explain a 3.6% increase in spending on physician services in 2011 compared with 2.8% in 2010, says CMS. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Stocks rebound after eurozone wobble :: A sense of confidence returns to markets, with European shares and the euro regaining their footing, and commodities moving higher
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f63e56f6-6f43-11e2-b6da-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
Dell to be bought back by founder :: Michael Dell is buying back the personal computer manufacturer he founded and that carries his name for $24.4bn (£15.5bn).
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21342632#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Euro zone economy shows signs of recovery :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>(Reuters) - The euro zone's battered <a class="mandelbrot_refrag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/economy?lc=int_mb_1001">economy</a> is probably recovering but the gulf between its two biggest members is widening, according to a survey on Tuesday that showed business optimism in the bloc at an eight-month high.</p>
<p>Markit's Eurozone Composite PMI, based on business activity across thousands of companies, and a good gauge of economic growth, rose in January to a 10-month high of 48.6 from 47.2 in December - an improvement on the preliminary reading of 48.2.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/euro-zone-economy-shows-signs-recovery-1062408
South African Farm Workers Win Huge Pay Increase; Farmers Warn Of Doomsday :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>South African farm workers have won an exorbitant pay increase, following weeks of bitter and violent strike action that killed one person.</p>
<p>Laborers on farms will receive a daily minimum wage of 105 South African Rand (about $11.80) for a nine-hour day, effective March 1, said the government's labor minister, Mildred Oliphant – up from the current level of 69 Rand, an astounding 52 percent spike in salary.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/south-african-farm-workers-win-huge-pay-increase-farmers-warn-doomsday-1062400
Coco Brown: Adult Film Actress Training To Be First Porn Star In Space :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Adult actress Coco Brown is vying to be the first porn star in space, the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4775634/coco-brown-to-be-the-first-porn-star-in-space.html">UK Sun</a> reports.</p>
<p>The star of such erotic films as "Black Panty Chronicles 2" and "Big Booty Bomb 2" paid approximately $100,000 in order to fly aboard a commercial space flight commissioned by the Dutch company SpaceXC, the newspaper details.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/coco-brown-adult-film-actress-training-be-first-porn-star-space-1062390
Zynga 4Q Earnings Preview: Existing Titles Continue To Underperform As Company Struggles With Transition To Online Gambling :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Social game developer Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq:ZNGA) is expected to swing to a loss in the fourth quarter because fewer people are playing the company's games.</p>
<p>The San Francisco-based company, which reports Tuesday after the market closes, is likely to report a $21.87 million loss, or 3 cents a share, on revenue of $212.1 million, compared with earnings of $37.15 million, or 5 cents a share, on revenue of $306.5 million a year earlier, according to analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/zynga-4q-earnings-preview-existing-titles-continue-underperform-company-struggles-transition-online
Alicia Keys Super Bowl National Anthem Criticized For Being Too Long :: <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Alicia Keys sang the national anthem before Super Bowl 2013, and it is unofficially the longest rendition in history to be sang at the football showdown.</p>
<p>Keys, who wore a floor-length red dress, sang the anthem while seated behind a white grand piano. Her version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" took two minutes and 40 seconds to sing.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/alicia-keys-super-bowl-national-anthem-criticized-being-too-long-1062216
Dell orchestrates $24bn buyout deal :: Founder Michael Dell leads investment group offering $13.65 per share for all outstanding stock of the world's third-largest personal computer maker
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d91a528a-6ee1-11e2-8189-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
iTunes launches Breakout Books section to highlight self-published titles :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/rY1qKeeEScE/story01.htm
Dell Agrees to Go Private in Management Buyout at $13.65 Per Share :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The speculation and the waiting game is over: Dell has agreed to go private in a management buyout, led by founder Michael Dell, for $13.65 per share. Dell shares were halted on the announcement.</p>
<p>The deal had been rumored for weeks and now is official. The deal, at $13.65 per share, represents a premium of about 3 percent over the closing price Monday.</p>
<p>The transaction values the company at approximately $24.4 billion and represents a premium of 37 percent over the average share price over the last 90 days.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/dell-agrees-go-private-management-buyout-1365-share-1062306
How Ugly Did Europe Just Get? :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Monday, global financial markets got beat down on what was effectively a repricing of sovereign and political risk in Europe. Bond yields rose, bank stocks fell, and broadly, risk assets traded weakly.</p>
<p>Europe just looked pretty ugly Monday. Beginning in Italy, 10-year government bond yields crept to two-month highs Monday on fears that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may be gaining in the polls ahead of the upcoming elections.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/how-ugly-did-europe-just-get-1062304
Liberty Global set for Virgin Media bid :: Deal would come more than five years after Liberty first considered making move for Virgin Media, and would mark Malone's biggest move into UK
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/397018ac-6f20-11e2-b6da-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
China Aims Missile Radar At Japanese Vessel Near Disputed Islands :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Tensions in the East China Sea continue to escalate over a group of disputed islands, as Japan accuses China of aiming a missile-guidance radar in the direction of a Japanese navy vessel.</p>
<p>Japan's Defense Minister, Itsunori Onodera, lodged a formal protest against Beijing over the missile threat on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Onodera said that the incident happened at the end of January near the Senkaku (according to Japan) or Diaoyu (according to China) islands, when a warship locked its missile radar on the Japanese destroyer Yuudachi.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/china-aims-missile-radar-japanese-vessel-near-disputed-islands-1062100
Dell Sets $24.4B Buyout That Could Be Topped By Competing Bid :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div><div class="field-item odd"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, said it will be acquired by CEO Michael S. Dell and Silver Lake Partners in a $24.4 billion deal that's the biggest private equity deal in technology. It could be superceded by a higher bid, if one emerges within 45 days.</p>
<p>The Round Rock, Tex.-based maker of PCs that's increasingly shifting to selling services, storage and software, is valued around $23.5 billion, based on Monday's share price of $13.27, down 34 cents, still about $75 billion below its previous highs of eight years ago.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/dell-sets-244b-buyout-could-be-topped-competing-bid-1062224
Michael Dell: PC pioneer looks back to the future :: Founder sees the PC maker that he wants to take private and transform into an enterprise IT services provider as 'very much a start-up at heart'
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/07caccaa-6f0e-11e2-b6da-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
Dell deal is done :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/SJy8gCUiy3w/story01.htm
VIDEO: Water bills to rise by 3.5% :: The average household water and sewerage bill in England and Wales is to rise by 3.5% over the next year, regulator Ofwat has said.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21341656#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Liberty Global eyes Virgin Media :: US billionaire John Malone's cable group Liberty Global is in discussions about a deal with Richard Branson's UK cable operator Virgin Media
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21337899#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Hollande warns on euro strength :: French president says euro is 'vulnerable' to irrational movements and calls for action to reform the international monetary system
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5ffe511a-6f7e-11e2-956b-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
VIDEO: Barclays mis-selling 'to be paid quickly' :: Barclays will pay compensation "as quickly as they can" to customers mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) and interest rate hedging products..
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21340761#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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