Entries from April 2005

April 20, 2005

Pettigrew tapped as possible Secretary General to the Organization of American States

Prime minister discourages Pettigrew from mulling OAS chair as election looms: “OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin tried to talk Pierre Pettigrew out of any notion of leaving politics to become head of the Organization of American States after the foreign affairs minister recently emerged as a candidate. Sources told The Canadian Press the prime minister [...]

April 14, 2005

Del.icio.us nabs VC financing

Del.icio.us tastes funding | CNET News.com: “Web bookmarks manager Del.icio.us has drawn its first investors, selling a minority stake of the company to Union Square Ventures, Amazon.com and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, among others.”
This is an interesting development as it follows a flurry of other significant corporate development announcements from similar Internet e-commerce and services-based [...]

April 2, 2005

"What the hell!? You’re too big!"

Emperor penguins look up at a giant imposter at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo, Japan. Zoo director Teruyuki Komiya dressed up for a stint in the penguin enclosure for the annual April Fool event to display a human being at the zoo. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)