Google appoints Morgan Stanely executive Ruth Porat as new CFO
Google announced on Tuesday that Ruth Porat will be the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Porat served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice...
Lexmark acquiring management software firm Kofax Ltd for $1 billion
Lexmark International, Inc. is acquiring the customer management software firm Kofax Ltd.
Lexmark will buy all of the outstanding shares of Kofax for $11.00 per share,...
Slowing Gulf Stream may cool British temperature
The Gulf Stream, which prevents Britain from freezing over in winter, is slowing at its fastest rate in one thousand years. Does that mean...
‘Healthy’ beavers re-released on to a Devon river, UK’s only wild beavers
Five healthy beavers have been re-released on to a Devon river, the Devon Wildlife Trust announced, expressing ‘delight and relief’. These are the only...
Congestion charges urged for Scotland to meet climate change targets by Committee on Climate...
While praising Scotland for making progress towards meeting greenhouse gas emission targets, congestion charges should be implemented by the Scottish government to secure its...
Massive salamander prehistoric ancestor was top predator 200 million years ago
A distant relative of today’s salamanders, a massive crocodile-like amphibian that existed during the rise of the dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, was...
Blackstone buys “Times Square” office building in the City of London for £268.4 million
Blackstone Group LP has agreed to purchase an office building in the heart of London’s financial district, "Times Square", for £268.4 million from Land...
Panasonic is making some of its technologies royalty free to spur growth in the...
Panasonic is making some of its own software and patents royalty free in an effort to boost the development of the Internet of Things...
Chinese manufacturing dropped to lowest level in 11 months
Chinese manufacturing dropped to its lowest level in nearly a year as new orders decline, according to HSBC's preliminary manufacturing index.
The lackluster manufacturing results...
Huge explosion in the sky 345 years ago was a stellar collision, not a...
In 1670, European astronomers saw a spectacular explosion in the sky, which the European Southern Observatory says was not a nova, but a much...