The small Coast Guard inflatable vessel was 20 yards from the panga, an open fishing boat that law enforcement officers say...
‘The Daily’ doomed by dull content and isolation
Label: TechnologyLOS ANGELES (AP) — It was too expensive. It lacked editorial focus. And for a digital publication, it was strangely cut off from the Internet. That’s the obituary being written in real time through posts, tweets and online chats about The Daily, the first-of-its-kind iPad newspaper that is being shut down this month.Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corp. said Monday that The Daily will publish its final issue...
Court upholds $319M verdict in 'Millionaire' case
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $319 million verdict over profits from the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and rejected Walt Disney Co.'s request for a new trial.A jury decided in 2010 that Disney hid the show's profits from its creators, London-based Celador International. The ruling Monday by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found...
Global Update: GlaxoSmithKline Tops Access to Medicines Index
Label: HealthSang Tan/Associated PressGlaxoSmithKline hung on to its perennial top spot in the new Access to Medicines Index released last week, but its competitors are closing in. Every two years, the index ranks the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies based on how readily they get medicines they hold patents on to the world’s poor, how much research they do on tropical diseases, how ethically...
Collecting on travel insurance is not smooth sailing
Label: Business When it comes to travel, especially involving something as pricey as a cruise, it's wise to take precautions. You never know when you may have to cancel your trip.Bill and Sally Mathews paid $1,140 for travel insurance as part of about $12,600 they plunked down in March for a July cruise along the Danube River with Grand Circle Cruise Line."We've...
Dec
02
Coast Guard officer is killed after suspected smugglers ram his boat
Label: World A veteran U.S. Coast Guard officer was killed Sunday after suspected smugglers rammed his vessel near Santa Cruz Island, casting...
Young down by boardwalk for benefit show
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Neil Young said Sunday that he couldn't see performing in the area devastated by Superstorm Sandy without doing something to help people who were affected by it.Young and his longtime backing band, Crazy Horse, will hold a benefit concert for the American Red Cross' storm relief effort Thursday at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. The New Jersey coastline areas were...
Call That Kept Nursing Home Patients in Sandy’s Path
Label: HealthChang W. Lee/The New York TimesWorkers were shocked that nursing and adult homes in areas like Rockaway Park, Queens, weren’t evacuated. Hurricane Sandy was swirling northward, four days before landfall, and at the Sea Crest Health Care Center, a nursing home overlooking the Coney Island Boardwalk in Brooklyn, workers were gathering medicines and other supplies as they prepared to evacuate. ...
Chinatrust Bank to move U.S. headquarters to downtown L.A.
Label: Business Chinatrust Bank has agreed to move its U.S. headquarters to downtown Los Angeles from Torrance.The bank will rent two floors...
Dec
01
After a billion, what next for Facebook?
Label: World MENLO PARK — In just eight years, Facebook signed up more than half the world's Internet population.Now it's going after the...
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