With B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell’s humbling win of a second consecutive term in government in the province in more than 22 years, albeit with a much-reduced 45 seats instead of the landslide 77 of 79 scored in 2001, it is easy to be hungry for his announcement of a new cabinet. Let’s take a look [...]
Tiscali: Sale of Excite to Ask Jeeves: “Tiscali announces the sale of Excite Italia BV to Ask Jeeves Inc. for a total cash consideration of EUR 6.1 millions. The divesture of Excite Italia BV, which owns the Excite brand in key European countries, ratifies Tiscali’s focus of its portal activities under the Tiscali brand and [...]
At first glance, it is very easy to consider the decision by Belinda Stronach, MP for the Ontario riding of Newmarket-Aurora, as unprincipled and hypocritical - and that’s the tact the federal Conservative caucus wants us to take. However, after taking a moment to reflect on this historic and dramatic bolt from Conservatives to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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)
IAC/InterActiveCorp announced on Monday it has proposed to Ask Jeeves, Inc., in an estimated $1.85 billion all-stock deal, less the cash and equivalents Jeeves has in its bank accounts, to which Ask Jeeves replied that it has accepted the marriage proposal.
The two companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal that would see Ask [...]
Call Centre Clears Hurdle: “At Monday’s regular (Kelowna) City Council meeting, Council approved the rezoning of a property on Leckie Place, a part of the old Western Star truck plant. The property was rezoned from heavy industrial to business industrial to allow for a call centre for a financial services company. The call centre could [...]
Rezoning For Call Centre: “City council will be looking at a rezoning application Monday afternoon that could create 400 jobs in Kelowna.”
Kelowna, B.C., could be getting its third major call centre if a rezoning application is approved by the Council of the City of Kelowna, according to Castanet.net news producer Ray Turner. It already has [...]
(Readers’ Note: I wanted to provide you with this interesting, biographical sketch by The New York Times’ technology writer John Markoff on a new San Francisco-based “podcasting” company called Odeo. It was started by Audioblogger founder Noah Glass and Blogger co-creator Evan Williams. Normally, I do not make a habit of reprinting copyrighted news pieces; [...]
