Facebook receives major Russian investment By Jo Hedesan WEDNESDAY MAY 27, 2009 Photographer: Megan & David Powell (The International) — Facebook announced today, May 27th, that it received a major financial backing from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian company supported by steel tycoon Alisher Usmanov. Digital Sky Technologies (DST) reportedly paid US $200 million for a 1.96% […]
Urban Renewal Schemer Arrested Over Checks From Developer
On Long Island, New York Nassau County Legislator Roger Corbin (Democrat-Westbury) was arrested on charges of tax evasion and lying to federal agents about 81 checks totaling $225,000 from developer Ranjan Batheja, one of those in the urban renewal scheme known as the New Cassel Revitalization Project. Corbin has not been charged with bribery or extortion […]
National Cyber Media Conclave 2009: A Digital Debut
It began with a click. The National Cyber Media Conclave (NCMC) made its debut at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune on the 28th March 2008. Organised by the students of SIMC, the one-of-a-kind event saw the evangelists of the cyber world discussing and debating on priorities of the cyberspace, digital activism, and customer […]
China’s Controversial Stem Cell Treatment Helps Blind Girl See
Foreign Patients Head to China For Chance of Sight A two-year-old British girl who was born blind and spent most of her life in the hospital now has her eyesight, thanks to a new stem cell treatment offered in China. The treatment takes stem cells from an umbilical cord and injects them into a patient’s […]
Scores survive Turkish airliner crash in Amsterdam
HAARLEMMERLIEDE, Netherlands (AP) — A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted out of the mist and plowed into a muddy field Wednesday near Amsterdam’s main airport, but nearly everyone on board — 125 people — survived. The nine dead included both pilots. The Boeing 737-800 was en route from Istanbul to Amsterdam carrying 134 people when it […]
Zimbabwean schools unlikely to open
THE 2009 education calendar is set to be distorted as schools are unlikely to open for the first term-slated for the 13th of January-owing to a critical teachers strike, as well as the unavailability of Grade seven results, a teachers body has revealed. Teachers have been on an unabated industrial action since September last year, […]
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