Oct
27

El viernes Microsoft juega la mayor apuesta de su historia

El viernes comienza una nueva era para Microsoft. Dejará de ser el rey de la computación personal tradicional y abandonará su histórica guerra bilateral con Apple (más la competencia con Linux en el terreno corporativo). Entrará en un conflicto multilateral, en el que chocará con dos compañías que, en sus áreas respectivas, la aventajan muchísimo: Google y Apple, que...
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Lil Wayne released from hospital, thanks fans

NEW YORK (AP) — Lil Wayne is thanking fans who prayed for him while he was hospitalized after a severe migraine and dehydration.The rapper’s management team says he’s on “mandated rest.” The Blueprint Group said Friday he was released from the hospital treatment and will return to work soon. It says the New Orleans-based rapper appreciates his fans’ support and love. Lil...
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FDA finds contaminants in drug linked to meningitis

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it found “greenish black foreign matter” and other contaminants in an injectable steroid produced by the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy at the heart of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak.It also found that vials from the same bin of the steroid contained what appeared to be a “white filamentous...
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The Trouble With 2 Percent GDP Growth

The market got a nice surprise on Friday morning when the Department of Commerce reported that the U.S. economy grew 2 percent (PDF) in the third quarter. That’s better than the consensus estimate of 1.8 percent by economists surveyed by Bloomberg, and a good bit stronger than the 1.3 percent pace in the second quarter. Investors were clearly expecting to be disappointed;...
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Indonesia arrests 11 people suspected of planning terror attacks on US, Australian embassies

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian police say they have arrested 11 people suspected of planning a range of terrorist attacks on domestic and foreign targets including the U.S. and Australian embassies.National Police spokesman Maj. Gen. Suhardi Aliyus says the suspects were arrested by an anti-terror squad in raids Friday night in four provinces. He...
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