Bojangles IPO raised $147.3 million, shares surge
Shares in Bojangles surged by as much as 47% in their market debut Friday.
The Charlotte-based chain of fast food restaurant had an initial public...
US job growth recovers, unemployment at seven-year low of 5.4 percent
Job growth in the US rebounded in April, with the country’s unemployment rate dropping to almost a seven-year low of 5.4 percent.
The results quelled...
Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips fined $11.5 million for violating hazardous-waste laws
Oil giants Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips will have to pay $11.5 million in fines after a California state judge approved the settlement of a...
Meet Dextrous Blue – the robot that sorts and folds clothes
Dextrous Blue is an 8-foot tall robot designed to do one of the most mundane household chores – sorting and folding clothes. Its creators, from...
500 million-year-old brain provides clues on how heads first evolved in early animals
How did heads first evolve in early animals? The discovery of a 500 million-year-old fossilised brain may provide insight into identifying a point of...
Cosmic dinosaur egg – globular cluster – on verge of hatching
A cosmic dinosaur is about to hatch, say scientists, who have discovered what may be the first known example of a globular cluster on...
Beautiful Gentoo penguin chicks hatched in Edinburgh Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo announced the arrival of the season’s first penguin chicks – two Gentoo penguins - that hatched this week, one in the early...
Syngenta rejects $45 billion takeover offer from rival Monsanto
Agrochemical giant Syngenta AG announced that it rejected a 41.7 billion Swiss-franc ($45 billion) takeover offer from rival Monsanto Co.
Syngenta said that the deal undervalued...
Defunct Russian spacecraft burns on re-entry over central Pacific Ocean
Russia’s Progress M-27M spacecraft that was supposed to have brought over three tons of food, oxygen, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station,...
Universe is full of planets with water delivered from asteroids and comets
The Universe is probably full of planets with water which got to them from water-laden comets and asteroids crashing into them, as occurred on Earth,...