Olympics sponsor comes under fire

Source: Tampa Bay Online

Big Macs, french fries and McFlurries will be on the menu at the London Olympics. And a British doctors' group isn't happy about it. As an official sponsor of the games. McDonald's will be the only restaurant allowed to sell brand-named ...
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Helium Shortage Threatens More Than Balloons

Source: NBC Los Angeles

It's peak season for balloon shops, but with a helium shortage, business is deflating. Shawn Agheassi, owner of Elegant Balloon in Studio City, says he is losing customers daily, and that business is down 50 percent. "I’m surv ...
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Indian govt to review steep petrol hike

Source: Khaleej Times

Nidhi Verma and Ross Colvin (Reuters) / 25 May 2012 IndiaÂs coalition govt opened the way for a partial rollback of the steepest petrol hike in the countryÂs history after two days of street protests and dissent from within its own ranks ...
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More on the Facebook follies, including a forecast of doom

Source: Down With Tyranny!

"I actually DO have a Facebook page. I didn't put it there, no-one knows who did or why. It is unvisited, like an anonymous and unattended grave, unadorned, gray and stale. But as unwanted as it is by all 901 million Facebook users and m ...
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Building wealth from healthcare

Source: Today Online

While recent news headlines have been dominated by natural disasters and sovereign debt crises, a greater concern looms over our heads. Globally, from the most developed countries such as the United States to emerging powerhouses such as China, governin ...
Full article at: Today Online  More like this  17 hours ago, 4:22pm CDT

Kingdoms of Amalur developer lays off entire staff

Source: Ars Technica

For metaphorical purposes, lets say the big red guy is the ballooning loan payments that 38 Studios (in armor) was fighting to stave off. 38 Studios / EA For many first-time game developers, selling 1.3 million copies of their ...
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Civil War Ballooning Revived This Memorial Day Weekend

Source: Gadling

During the Civil War, the clashing armies used many new technologies to try to gain an advantage. One military innovation was the balloon. Although the first balloon ascent had taken place in France in 1783 and the French army had ...
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Over-allocation kills cloud savings

Source: BetaNews

When it comes to the cloud and Amazon Web Services, IT administrators often buy far more than they need and fail to adjust to realities once they have a good understanding of their deployment's needs. These ...
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India set to lose $29b in airport land scam

Source: Gulfnews

New Delhi/Mumbai: India's government was hit by a fresh scandal after an official audit accused it of forgoing $29 billion in potential revenues by awarding a long-term airport land lease to a private company at a ...
Full article at: Gulfnews  More like this  21 hours ago, 12:38pm CDT