California olive oil producers press for import standards
Need olive oil? American shoppers are more likely to pick a European brand, which is cheaper and viewed as more authentic than U.S.-produced olive oil. But U.S. producers contend that 'extra virgin'...
View ArticleBulbs & beyond expects delayed start of Summer bulb buying season in the UK...
The online flower bulb mail order company Bulbs & beyond expects 2014 sales of dahlias, lilies, gladioli, begonias, ranunculus, zantedeschias, crocosmias, cannas, and other summer flowering bulb...
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Europe's PLATO to Hunt for Earth Look-Alikes
A new space observatory expected to launch by 2024 will seek out Earth-sized planets and super-Earths orbiting distant stars, the European Space Agency announced Wednesday. Dubbed "PLATO," for...
View ArticleWindstar Cruises Launches Exclusive Asia Offer
Guests receive 2-for-1 cruise fares, two free hotel nights and a free exclusive private event. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) February 21, 2014 Windstar Cruises is currently featuring an exclusive offer for the...
View ArticleHyundai, Design School Collaborate on PassoCorto Sports-Car Concept [2014...
Well, this Hyundai PassoCorto sports-car concept certainly came out of left field—but we’re sure glad it did. This hot little number is, for now, purely a design exercise, a collaboration between the...
View ArticleCarnage in Ukraine: What Next?
"The actions on the visa level are good but you need to arrest the accounts of those guys... because Yanukovych is not going down without taking very, many, many, many dead people with him." The words...
View ArticleNearly All WhatsApp Downloads Come From Outside The United States
Ninety-one percent of WhatsApp downloads come from outside the United States, according to data collected between January 2012 and January 2014 by App Annie. WhatsApp, the mobile messaging platform...
View ArticleA Lot Of People Have Already Binge Watched The Entire Season Of 'House Of Cards'
Did you spend your Presidents' Weekend glued to Netflix, watching the entire 13-episode second season of "House of Cards?" If you did, you're one of about 670,000. According to data from the firm...
View ArticleWhite House Hails Ukraine Deal, Awaits Concrete Action
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday praised an agreement between Ukraine's president and the opposition to end violence and said it should be implemented immediately. White House press...
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Ukraine Deal Eliminates Presidential Powers, Protesters Still Not Satisfied
Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich signed a deal with opposition leaders that curbs his powers, holds early elections and releases his 2010 presidential opponent, Yulia Tymoshenko, from prison. But...
View ArticleVertex's cystic fibrosis drug approved for another 150 U.S. patients
Kalydeco, which was the first drug to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis when it was approved in the U.S. in 2012, is now approved for patients with other gene mutations. The inherited...
View ArticleAmerica Is in Transition -- and So Is Its Foreign Policy
America is changing. So too is the rest of the world. But will America's internal changes carry broader implications for its role in the world, the influence and power it wields, and the foreign policy...
View ArticleAP National News Calendar
Standard & Poor's releases S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices for December and the fourth quarter, 9 a.m.; Consumer Confidence Index released for February, 10 a.m. Commerce Department...
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Hyundai Intrado Concept Images Slink Out Ahead of Geneva [2014 Geneva Auto Show]
It’s hard to keep a secret these days. Take Hyundai’s Intrado Concept for instance. Set for a Geneva reveal, the first images slipped out today and began making the rounds almost immediately. We...
View ArticleWhistle-Blowers, Painted from Life by Florence Hartmann
I have long reserved judgment on the whistle-blowers who periodically make public the bundles of documents, confidential diplomatic cables, and eavesdropping transcripts that they come across in the...
View ArticleEditorial: Ukraine’s chance for peace
ASHOCKING explosion of bloodshed in the center of Europe — Ukraine’s capital, Kiev — gave way Friday to a fragile accord that may be the last chance to prevent civil war in a nation of 48 million...
View ArticleGreenberg Traurig’s Silicon Valley Office Elevates Real Estate Attorney
Greenberg Traurig’s Silicon Valley Office Elevates Real Estate Attorney EAST PALO ALTO (PRWEB) February 21, 2014 The Silicon Valley office of international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has elevated...
View ArticleMRRBiz: Cardiac Arrest Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2014: Worldwide...
MarketResearchReports.Biz includes new market research report "Cardiac Arrest Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2014" to its huge collection of research reports. (PRWEB) February 22, 2014 GlobalData's...
View Article6 Greenberg Traurig Attorneys Appointed to Editorial Advisory Boards
6 Greenberg Traurig Attorneys Appointed to Editorial Advisory Boards New York, NY (PRWEB) February 21, 2014 Six shareholders at the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP have been appointed to...
View ArticleFannie Mae posts profit of $84 billion for 2013
Fannie said Friday that its full-year profit of $84 billion for 2013 was boosted by rising home prices and an accounting move capitalizing on tax benefits it had accumulated from losses on mortgages...
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