BRUSSELS - European Union regulators on Wednesday dropped an antitrust investigation into U.S. memory chip company Rambus Inc. after the company pledged to cap royalty fees for DRAM memory chip patents. Rambus, based in Los Altos, California, will a
Soft drink brand Gatorade says it is to drop a Tiger Woods-endorsed product but said it was not related to revelations about the golfer's private life.PepsiCo-owned Gatorade said the decision to axe the Tiger Focus drink was made a few months ago. S
TOKYO, December 9 – Japan’s Nikkei average lost 1.3 per cent on Wednesday as debt problems in Greece and Dubai damped investor confidence and pushed up the yen, weighing on Honda Motor and other exporters.Adding to the downbeat tone, revised gross d
LONDON - London shares fell at the start of trading on Wednesday, extending heavy losses from the previous day amid anxiety about government debt in Dubai and Greece. In opening deals, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index lost 0.13 percent to stand at
OXFORD, Pa. - Obese students at a historically black college near Philadelphia won't have to take a fitness class to graduate after all. Lincoln University faculty nixed the idea this week amid complaints the so-called fat course undermined a scho
The US jobless rate fell back to 10 per cent in November, as the economy shed the fewest jobs since the recession started two years ago, offering a promising sign that the labour market is starting to mend.Official figures released on Friday showed
BAGHDAD - A mysterious TV channel praising Saddam Hussein dropped off satellite airwaves on Monday, just three days after it began broadcasting. The chairman of the so-called Saddam Channel told The Associated Press it will return by the weekend aft
Marcello Lippi's interview with Italian magazine L'Espresso hit the shelves on Friday, and the Italy boss gave other significant indications about the 23-man party who will travel to the World Cup finals in South Africa next summer. Some excerpts
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