The Guardian:
He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itsel (Read More)
paidContent.org:
No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidConte (Read More)
VentureBeat:
We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise.One of our newest speakers is Randy Breen, chief op (Read More)
Xconomy:
IT, deals, Finance Wade Roush wrote: TheNextRound, a Framingham, MA-based startup that makes software for private equity and alternative investors, has been acquired by Windsor, CT-based SS&C Technologies for an undisclo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Writing a book will never be easy, but FastPencil's mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers from idea to published book. The servic (Read More)
Mashable!:
In the month or so since Twitter started rolling out its Twitter Lists feature, a number of web and Adobe AIR based clients have added support for it.However, we haven’t seen any native Twitter apps support Lists. Today Realm (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Zacks.com submits: After almost a year of initiating the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue the nation’s financial industry, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday that it would auction off sto (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Resistant strain discovered in Cardiff hospital, prompting concern among health officialsDoctors in Wales are investigating a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu that has been spreading from patient to patient in a Cardiff (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Usually there's at least a week of lag time between a photo leak and a spec leak, but BGR seems to have acquired full specs on the just-outed Motorola Motus. * Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE * Tri-band 7.2Mbps HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 (Read More)
Xconomy:
deals, VC, mergers and acquisitions Ryan McBride wrote: Dealmakers appear to be getting their business done before the week of Thanksgiving—because we’ve seen a decent stream of deal closings involving Boston-area life s (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Safety services provider Intertek Group said Friday that it is in discussions with Det Norske Veritas to acquire the vast majority of its business assurance division. It is expected that the considera (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Sports:
PHOENIX -- Reliever Aaron Heilman was acquired Friday by the Arizona Diamondbacks from the Chicago Cubs for two minor league prospects.
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paidContent.org:
Smashwords, which was one of the first eBook distributors to be have its self-publishing platform included in the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) digital bookstore, has acquired author com (Read More)
Xconomy:
people, Technology, events Gregory T. Huang wrote: It wasn’t so much the predictions as the discussion that was most interesting at last night’s annual predictions dinner, organized by the Washington Technology Industry (Read More)
The Guardian:
Profits jump at leisiure retailer as 'staycationers' shun expensive foreign holidaysLeisure retailer Halfords is celebrating the new era of austerity with a jump in profits after consumers stayed at home and splashed out on b (Read More)
The Guardian:
Half of a key American duo from the golden age of tap-dancingJimmy Clark, who has died aged 87, was the "straight-man" of the renowned tap-dancing Clark Brothers. As the last "brother" tap act from the golden era of swing, Ji (Read More)
Xconomy:
Biotech, deals, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LGND) said today it has received $2 million in milestone payments as part of research collaboration with Merck that is d (Read More)
mediabistro.com: AgencySpy:
What's been talked about for months will soon come to fruition as AOL plans to offer a voluntary buyout program to as many as 2,500 employees starting December 4th and through December 11th. The program coincides with the the (Read More)
GigaOM:
Java scalability specialist Terracotta has acquired the intellectual property associated with Quartz, a popular open-source job scheduler, part of Terracotta’s mission to integrate common open-source Java application compone (Read More)