Uncategorized

Microsoft to buy back US$40 B of its stock over 5 years

Friday, July 21, 2006 Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT, HKSE:4338) has announced plans to buy back US$40 billion of its stock between now and 2011. (All further figures in this article are in U.S. Dollars.) Microsoft, the world’s largest maker of computer software, will make a tender offer to repurchase $20 billion of its own stock byRead More

Microsoft to buy back US$40 B of its stock over 5 years

Uncategorized

Wikimedia Foundation announces departure of general counsel Mike Godwin

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization which administers online collaborative websites including Wikipedia and Wikinews, announced yesterday that its general counsel Mike Godwin will leave his position thisRead More

Wikimedia Foundation announces departure of general counsel Mike Godwin

Uncategorized

United Kingdom Home Secretary proposes paedophile law

Monday, June 19, 2006 British Home Secretary John Reid has met criticism from several quarters for his suggestion that the UK should adopt a law allowing the public naming of known paedophiles. The United States has legislation known as ‘Megan’s Law‘ which Reid has suggested should be adopted. Such a law would allow concerned parentsRead More

United Kingdom Home Secretary proposes paedophile law

Uncategorized

San Diego Chargers upset Indianapolis Colts

San Diego Chargers 28 24 Indianapolis Colts Even without LaDainian Tomlinson and Philip Rivers, the Chargers made sure the Indianapolis Colts won’t repeat as Super Bowl champions. Now San Diego must make sure it doesn’t repeat its last performance at New England. That will be especially difficult without an injured L.T., who departed in theRead More

San Diego Chargers upset Indianapolis Colts

Uncategorized

Study: Socialized Canadian surgery half the U.S. cost with same results

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Americans pay twice as much for heart-bypass surgery as the socialized Canadian system, with no difference in outcome, according to today’s issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine in a study funded by American drug company, Pfizer Inc.. The research found that heart bypass surgery costs an average of $10,373 inRead More

Study: Socialized Canadian surgery half the U.S. cost with same results