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Deals of the Hour / June 9, 2010, 7:12 am

New Version of Venere.com Booming Travel Blog: Now ...

They will be able to keep up to date by reading RSS feeds, following Venere's profile on Twitter and subscribing to the newsletter which offers dedicated promotions and deals. Venere has recently concentrated its efforts on improving connectivity ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-09T13:31:00Z)

Exxon Valdez: How That Disaster Destroyed The Economy ...

So there would be two sources of revenue: one from the sale of the loans, and another from the steady flow of repayments. Then someone had the idea of dividing up the securities into different levels of risk--a technique called tranching--and selling ... (Source: YAHOO! 2010-06-09T13:31:00Z)

Microchip Reaffirms Guidance

The sale included inventory, equipment, intellectual property, and certain other assets and liabilities associated with the product lines. Approximately 100 employees (18% of SST's workforce) were transferred to Greenliant as a part of this ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-09T13:52:28Z)

Strasburg exceeds the hype, and somehow remains immune ...

... to strike out at least 14 without walking anyone -- ought to sustain the interest in each of his starts, though so far Strasburg has proved immune to his own hype. "It's pretty impressive how he deals with all the attention," third baseman Ryan ... (Source: CNN Sports Illustrated 2010-06-09T13:52:28Z)

SpectraScience Provides Corporate Update and Outlook

With FDA approval for sale in the U.S. and the CE Mark for the European Union, the WavSTAT System is the first commercially available product that incorporates this innovative technology for clinical use. The Company's LUMA imaging technology has ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-09T13:52:28Z)

State may outsource technology work

As for state employees who currently hold jobs in areas that would be outsourced, Schafer has been looking at deals in Georgia, Texas and Virginia that have required the winning company to hire current government employees and "re-badge" them as ... (Source: Charleston Daily Mail 2010-06-09T14:06:47Z)

Libya orders UN refugee agency to close office

The agency mostly deals with refugees from Iraq, Sudan, Somalia and several other African countries. In many cases, the refugees land in Libya because of Italy's policy to push back those who are trying to flee there from North Africa and the Middle ... (Source: CNN 2010-06-09T14:06:47Z)

A Strasburg strikeout, from the bleachers

I mentioned this earlier, but one of the most striking things about watching the game in the crowd was seeing everyone celebrating together. Husbands hugging wives, buddies exchanging fist pounds, strangers giving each other high-five, and so on. It ... (Source: Washington Post 2010-06-09T13:02:22Z)

Goldman unlikely to settle Timberwolf: source

If Basis does sue over the Timberwolf deal, it would come less than two months after the SEC sued Goldman for civil fraud in connection with the structuring and sale of another CDO called Abacus 2007. FIGHT OR SETTLE? Goldman has vowed to fight the ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-09T13:38:09Z)

Move Over Europe, China Is Pushing To Bailout The Greek ...

As Western investors head for the hills, it turns out that China is turing the Greece crisis into an opportunity for expansion. Spurred on by government incentives and bargain-basement prices, the Chinese are planning to pump hundreds of millions ... (Source: The Business Insider 2010-06-09T14:06:47Z)

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