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• Microsoft to buy comparison shopping sites
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is buying a Munich, Germany-based Web comparison shopping site and its parent company for about $486 million in cash. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker says the acquisition of Greenfield Online Inc., which owns Ciao, a ...
• Oil climbs on fears Gustav will hit the Gulf
Traders were also reacting to a report in Britian’s Daily Telegraph, citing an unidentified business source, that Russia may cut oil supplies to Germany and Poland as early as this weekend in response to the threat of European Union sanctions over ...
• Studio offers ‘Valkyrie’ extras settlement
In America, these things happen,” he said, referring to the $11 million demand. “You have a different system in Germany. If you lose an arm, it’s not worth a million dollars.
• Surprising GDP helps stocks close sharply up
Overseas, Japan’s Nikkei stock average edged up 0.12 percent. Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 1.32 percent, Germany’s DAX index added 1.57 percent, and France’s CAC-40 jumped 2.02 percent.
• Giant clams may have fed early humans
These are all strong indications that T. costata may be the earliest example of marine overexploitation," said researcher Claudio Richter, a marine ecologist at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany.