Akio Nakagawa’s boutique U.S. investment firm earned a $687 million fee from Olympus for a 2008 deal that made it the biggest advisory payment in history, and which the Japanese camera maker now admits was used to hide investment losses. The whereabouts of the former PaineWebber banker had bee ...
Some 84 percent of iPhone users said they would pick iPhone also when they replace their cellphone, while 60 percent of consumers who use smartphones running Google’s Android said they would stick with phones using the same software. Only 48 percent of people using Research In Motion’s c ...
The bear was one of the first animals put down as deputies hunted 56 lions, tigers, bears and other beasts freed on Terry Thompson’s Zanesville, Ohio, farm, said Muskingum County Sheriff Matthew Lutz. The bear, which was “showing aggressive behavior,” got within 7 feet of the deput ...
The first lab-grown hamburger will cost around 250,000 euros ($345,000) to produce, according to Mark Post, a vascular biologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, who hopes to unveil such a delicacy soon. Experts say the meat’s potential for saving animals’ lives, land, ...
The mostly Hispanic and black study participants did not necessarily eat traditional foods from Mediterranean countries, but the closer their diets were to the spirit of Mediterranean eating — with plenty of fish, healthy fats like olive oil, whole grains and vegetables — the lower their ...
The chief executive of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), the world’s second-largest maker of mobile phone network equipment, has warned employees NSN cannot expect any more money from its parent companies, a ...
Putin, president from 2000-2008 and now prime minister, is expected to easily recapture the presidency in an election in March. But opinion polls indicate a parliamentary vote in a week could loosen his United ...
The bear was one of the first animals put down as deputies hunted 56 lions, tigers, bears and other beasts freed on Terry Thompson’s Zanesville, Ohio, farm, said Muskingum County Sheriff Matthew Lutz. The ...
Some 84 percent of iPhone users said they would pick iPhone also when they replace their cellphone, while 60 percent of consumers who use smartphones running Google’s Android said they would stick with ph ...