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Berkshire Hathaway Becomes Significant Anheuser-Busch Shareholder

Anheuser-Busch has recently learned that Berkshire Hathaway has become a significant shareholder, based on information available to the company.

Cluelesstrain: PR Blogging Practices

The Cluelesstrain has had a long run in the past five years. First, the train had to pull into the Online Practice in 1999.

Opera 8 CEO May Take a Dive

The words had scarcely come out of his mouth before people were on the phone to spread the word. Opera CEO promised that if downloads of the beta browser reached 1 million, he’ll swim from Norway to the USA, stopping only to have a cup of hot chocolate at his mother’s house in Iceland.

Falconbridge $221 Million In First Quarter

Falconbridge reported consolidated earnings of $221 million (basic earnings per share of $1.22 and diluted earnings per share of $1.21) for the first quarter 2005.

Google Beats Absurdly High Expectations

The stock market and analysts say Google will do great, and it does even better. How do they pull it off? …

Google’s Profits Skyrocket

Google continues to demonstrate exactly why their share price should be over $200-a-share and why they are still the king of search.

Allied Domecq Accepts $14.2 billion Bid From Pernod and Fortune

Allied Domecq has accepted a $14.2 billion takeover offer from Pernod Ricard and Fortune Brands.

Google Releases First Quarter Results

Google announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2005. Google reported record revenues of $1.256 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2005, up 93% year over year.

Archipelago Shares Skyrocket On Takeover From NYSE

Archipelago Holdings shares went up 55% after the announcement that the company agreed to be taken over by the New York Stock Exchange.

Crude Oil Prices Continue to Creep Up

Crude oil futures headed back up after dropping to $53 to $54.20 a barrel. All indicators show that oil supplies remain high and while the U.S. showed a drop in yesterday’s report, OPEC is still pumping near full steam.

Consumer Prices Jump In March

Consumer prices in the United States increased by more than expected in the month of March.

US Airways and America West Discuss Possible Merger

US Airways and America West have been in merger talks, and the companies are now looking for investors.

Samsung Pushes Flash Memory to 4Gbit with NAND.

Multimedia phones will get a huge memory increase after Samsung begins producing a new flash memory component in July 2005.

Launch Speculated for May 22

According to unconfirmed sources, NASA is scheduling the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, the first shuttle to orbit since the Columbia disaster, for May 22.

Oil Prices Float to the Top Again

Bad news for consumers hit the oil markets today when light sweet crude soared up to $53 a barrel as the U.S. announced dwindling crude and gasoline supplies for the first time in nearly three months and just before the summer travel season.

Sober Returns In German and English

English and German variants of the Sober virus are once again tracking across the Internet.

WS-Security Standard Is Ready to Roll.

Fourteen organizations joined together for the first time to demonstrate interoperability of the WS-Security OASIS Standard at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Los Angeles today.

Pfizer Revenues Up From Last Year

Pfizer revenues for the first quarter of 2005 grew 5 percent to $13.091 billion, compared to the first quarter of 2004, reflecting strong performances by Lipitor, Zithromax, and other product lines.

Prerelease Star Wars III – Go To Jail

Congress passes bill S.167, the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, targeted at those who record movies in a “motion picture exhibition facility.”

$52 a Barrel and Still Climbing

Oil prices shot above $52.51 a barrel on Wednesday morning as investors await U.S. reports on gasoline stocks for the summer driving season.

Health Canada Approves Cannabis MS Treatment

Health Canada has approved Sativex (Cannabis sativa L. extract) a new drug developed as adjunctive treatment for the symptomatic relief of neuropathic pain in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS).

No Rush to Buy Dual Core

With the release of dual-core processors this week, the tech world has been a-buzz. But it may be a while until the full utility of this advancement can be recognized.