Published on December 1, 2010 by Technology Slice
Engine Troubles Costs Qantas $100 Million – The cost to insurers of the damage to the A380 alone is expected to be about $US70m ($72.9m), according to the insurance arm of US-based Aon Group, The Australian reports. This is in addition to costs associated with business losses and disruptions that analysts predict will fall between [...]
Tags: 100 Million, 5m, 9m, A380, airline, Aon Group, Business Losses, Debris, Disruptions, Fleet, Fuel Systems, Hydraulics, Insurance, Insurance Arm, Large Hole, Rolls Royce, Rolls Royce Trent 900, Shrapnel, Turbine Disk, Wing Spar
Posted in Travel
Published on August 1, 2010 by Technology Slice
FaceBook Will Not Go Public Yet – While the 26-year-old Harvard dropout battles lawsuits from old business partners and rising concerns about privacy issues, he’ll also be forced to hone his skills as a CEO in the coming year as he fends off a big challenge from Google, the New York Post reports. “Facebook is [...]
Tags: 100 Million, Bets, Business Partners, Ceo, Cold Water, google, Harvard Dropout, Ipo, Lawsuits, New York Post, Old Business, Personal Data, Privacy Issues, Privacy Snafu, Private Firms, Running, skull, Social Networking Site, Speculation, Tv Interview
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Published on July 26, 2010 by Technology Slice
Starcraft II Could Sell 7 Million Copies – StarCraft II unit sales could reach 7 million in Activision Blizzard’s current fiscal year, generating $350 million in sales for the publisher and $171 million in operating profit, analyst Mike Hickey with Janco Partners said in a Friday research note.
Tags: 10 Years, 100 Million, 5 Million, Blizzard Entertainment, Contrary, Cowen Group, Creutz, Current Fiscal Year, Debut, Estimates, Janco Partners, korea, Mike Hickey, National Sport, Operating Margin, Operating Profit, Real Time Strategy, Starcraft, Starcraft Ii, Time Strategy Game
Posted in Games
Published on June 18, 2010 by Technology Slice
The Government says the old tax system has failed to keep pace with the spiralling profits generated by the big miners. The miners believe the new tax is not a tax on “super profits” but on very mild profits. This is how the tax would work. Under the current system, mining companies pay 5 per [...]
Tags: 100 Million, 5 Million, 60 Million, Business Company, Business New, Company Tax Rate, Current System, Depreciation, Effective Tax Rate, Federal Tax, Initial Investment, Miners, Mining Companies, Money, Operating Expenses, Pace, Profits, Royalties, Royalty, Rudd
Posted in General
Published on June 9, 2010 by Technology Slice
Google Releases Caffeine Infrastructure – The company says the new indexing system, dubbed “Caffeine”, will provide the largest selection of web content ever offered on Google. It’s faster – processing hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel every second – and takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database.
Tags: 100 Million, Alan Eustace, Australian Searches, Beta Testers, Freshness, Gigabytes, google, Google Com Au, Google Search, Hitwise, Indexing System, Inroads, Launch, Mysterious Formula, Search Business, Search Experience, Search Queries, Search Rankings, Senior Vice President, World Users
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