TOKYO (Reuters) – Panasonic Corp may sell its Sanyo digital camera business to Japanese private equity fund Advantage Partners by the end of March, a source familiar with the plan said.A final decision on the sale will be made by the end of the year, the source said on condition he was not identified.Advantage Partners will pay several hundreds of millions of yen for the business, which makes digital...
Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies at 92
Label: LifestyleNEW DELHI (AP) — Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over a 10-decade career, died Tuesday. He was 92.A statement on the musician’s website said he died in San Diego, near his Southern California home. The musician’s foundation issued a statement saying that...
QLT’s experimental eye drug could be worth “hundreds of millions”
Label: Health(Reuters) – Canadian eye drug developer QLT Inc’s synthetic retinoid program, an experimental treatment for some inherited eye diseases that can cause blindness, could be worth “hundreds of millions” of dollars, the company‘s chairman said.Several potential buyers have approached QLT for the program — its only remaining product after it sold its eye drug, Visudyne, to Valeant Pharmaceuticals International...
Oil price rises on Fed stimulus hopes
Label: BusinessBANGKOK (AP) — The price of oil rose Wednesday as investors anticipated that new measures to perk up the U.S. economy will be announced at the end of the Federal Reserve‘s policy meeting.Benchmark crude for January delivery was up 8 cents to $ 85.87 per barrel at midday Bangkok time on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 23 cents to finish at $ 85.79 per barrel in New York on Tuesday....
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Egypt army given temporary power to arrest civilians
Label: WorldCAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Islamist president has given the army temporary power to arrest civilians during a constitutional referendum he is determined to push through despite the risk of bloodshed between his supporters and opponents accusing him of a power grab.Seven people were killed and hundreds wounded last week in clashes between the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and their critics besieging Mohamed...
Egypt army given temporary power to arrest civilians
Label: WorldCAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Islamist president has given the army temporary power to arrest civilians during a constitutional referendum he is determined to push through despite the risk of bloodshed between his supporters and opponents accusing him of a power grab.Seven people were killed and hundreds wounded last week in clashes between the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and their critics besieging Mohamed...
Google’s Gmail service suffers disruption
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Several Google Inc Web products, including the popular Gmail service, appeared to go dark for users on several continents on Monday.Google confirmed that “service disruptions” had affected Gmail and Google Drive, its online storage service. The two products are part of Google’s Apps suite, a Microsoft Office rival that caters to both consumers and businesses.By 10:10 a.m....
Jenni Rivera’s family hopes Mexican-American singer still alive
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The family of Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera said on Monday they are holding onto hope that she may still be alive, although U.S. officials said earlier that she died on Sunday in a plane crash in Mexico.“In our eyes, we still have faith that our sister will be OK,” Rivera’s brother Juan told reporters outside the family house near Long Beach, California.“We thank God...
FDA OKs J&J prostate cancer drug for pre-chemo use
Label: Health(Reuters) – U.S. health regulators on Monday expanded the approval of Johnson & Johnson‘s drug Zytiga for advanced prostate cancer to allow its use prior to treatment with chemotherapy.The widely-expected, expanded Food and Drug Administration approval, which came after the company demonstrated that Zytiga could extend survival if used prior to chemotherapy, is likely to significantly boost sales...
HSBC ‘to pay $1.9bn’ in US deal
Label: Business10 December 2012 Last updated at 19:30 ETHSBC is to pay US authorities $ 1.9bn (£1.2bn) in a settlement over money-laundering, say reports, the largest ever in such a case.The UK-based bank was alleged to have helped launder money belonging to drug cartels and states under US sanctions.Earlier this year HSBC admitted having poor money laundering controls following a US Senate investigation.Last month...
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