A strike at the world’s largest privately-owned copper mine, La Escondida in Chile, ends.

Posted by BBC News | Business | UK Edition as Business & Finance at 11:50 PM CDT

More students are having to work during term-time to pay spiralling costs, the TUC warns.

Posted by BBC News | Business | UK Edition as Business & Finance at 11:27 PM CDT

Sabeer Bhatia’s proposal for setting up a ‘Nano City’ has been given the go ahead.

Posted by rediff Business as Business & Finance at 11:11 PM CDT

Dewan Housing launches reverse mortgage for senior citizens.

Posted by rediff Business as Business & Finance at 11:11 PM CDT

A basic tenet of investing suggests that risk and return are directly correlated i.e. higher the risk borne, higher are the returns expected.

Posted by rediff Business as Business & Finance at 11:11 PM CDT

Thames Water announces it has withdrawn its application for a drought order covering the London region.

Posted by BBC News | Business | UK Edition as Business & Finance at 11:00 PM CDT

When a searcher types a word into Google or Yahoo, organic and paid results populate the return screen. Because competition for top rankings in search results is steadily increasing, business-to-business marketers are challenged to develop ever more sophisticated search strategies.

Posted by Kelly Shermach as Technology at 10:20 PM CDT

Mumbai Mirror

Khushwant Singh unhappy with today's writers Monsters and Critics.com - 2 hours ago New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Khushwant Singh, one of the pioneers of the Indian writing in English, feels writers today lack simplicity and the common man is turning his back to them. Rural business hubs to create more jobs Financial Express Govt, pvt cos ink deal to set up rural hubs Mumbai Mirror all 5 news articles

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China has announced it will adopt a digital TV broadcast standard that will combine two systems developed by the Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiaotong University. The decision, made by the Standardization Administration of China following a review of the short list of submitted proposals, will be the mandatory broadcast signal for such operations in China, beginning next August.

Posted by Erika Morphy as Technology at 9:30 PM CDT

Ottawa Citizen

Goldcorp to Buy Glamis Gold for $8.6B Houston Chronicle - 31 Aug 2006 Canadian gold miner Goldcorp plans to buy Reno-based rival Glamis Gold Ltd. in an $8.6 billion stock deal that will create one of the world's largest gold producers, the companies said Thursday. Gold miners in US$21b merger Malaysia Star Newest miner has golden aspirations London Free Press International Herald Tribune - 123Jump.com - Globe and Mail - Forbes all 105 news articles

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Microsoft appears to be in line to get more time to comply with all the provisions of its antitrust settlement with the federal government, with terms of the deal now stretching until 2012. The U.S. Department of Justice and Microsoft have jointly filed with the court overseeing the settlement for an additional 24 months.

Posted by Keith Regan as Technology at 9:02 PM CDT

Samsung said it plans to demonstrate wireless connectivity that is 50 times faster than current WiMax technology at its fourth annual 4G summit in South Korea this week. The firm claims that it has achieved mobile data speed of 100 megabits-per-second and fixed-point speed of 1 gigabit-per-second with its latest technology.

Posted by Jay Lyman as Technology at 8:55 PM CDT

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Hindu

Put Cenvat claims under scanner, DoE told Hindu - 59 minutes ago CLOSE SCRUTINY: Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram (centre), with Revenue Secretary, KM Chandrasekhar (left), and Minister of State for Finance, SS Palanimanickam, at a conference in New Delhi on Thursday. Close watch to be kept on Cenvat claims Chennai Online FM To Inaugurate Conference On Indirect Tax Indlaw.com Daily News & Analysis - Financial Express - Hindu all 8 news articles

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The US space agency gives the contract to build its new spacecraft Orion to Lockheed Martin.

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If you check your handset every time someone else’s rings, you suffer from ‘ringxiety’. Perplexed? The telecom boom is constantly inventing new-age lingo for ‘compunication’.

Posted by The Financial Express as Business & Finance at 7:52 PM CDT

The Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority is set to launch a “motor pool” that will protect consumers from paying higher prices for their automobile insurance policies.

Posted by The Financial Express as Business & Finance at 7:51 PM CDT

The UPA government on Thursday rejected a cheque of Rs 1,098 crore sent by Anil Aggarwal-owned Sterlite Industries for the residual 49% government stake in Bharat Aluminium Company.

Posted by The Financial Express as Business & Finance at 7:51 PM CDT

Egged on by Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd’s local dialing and the Rs 1.20-for-3 minutes plan between Delhi and Mumbai, India’s largest telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam is likely to introduce a new plan under which all STD calls will be of a 3-minute pulse against 30 seconds now, allowing subscribers to talk longer for the same price.

Posted by The Financial Express as Business & Finance at 7:51 PM CDT