Here is a question most people have never been asked and even fewer have agonized over: Should you take a check for more than $5 billion? Or walk away?
3 hours agoAlthough it seems counter-intuitive to consider the physical location of cloud-computing equipment, the Wikileaks-Amazon incident provided an important reminder that location matters when it comes to cloud computing.
U.S. computer chip maker Intel at one point won a vital concession from the Russian government by threatening to pull its operations from the country, a leaked diplomatic cable claimed Tuesday.
Forget high school kids and troubled housewives. Retail theft has gone high-tech, as more stores adopt cutting-edge technology to battle a crime that has evolved beyond traditional shoplifting.
A month after EleASoft launched a software for entrepreneurs, the company was told by potential investors at Investissement Quebec its product could become obsolete because it was not web based.
NEW DELHI - The Indian government is talking to companies using Research in Motion's BlackBerry to gain access to their employees' secure communications when it is deemed necessary, an official told the Wall Street Journal.
Research In Motion has bought Swedish design company The Astonishing Tribe as the BlackBerry maker seeks to enhance the look and functionality of its screens ahead of the launch of its Playbook tablet.
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3 hours agoThe decision by the Bank of Canada to leave rates untouched at one per cent at the same time as the U.S. has decided to leave existing tax cuts in place while in the midst of another stimulus round shouldn't have come as a big surprise.
Canada has one of the most unbalanced democracies in the developed world. The average federal riding in Prince Edward Island, for instance, has only one-third as many voters as the average riding in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.
In 2009, AIDS activist and former NDP politician Stephen Lewis spoke to an audience at the University of Lethbridge about global health. During questioning, someone asked Lewis about famed Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo.
In my most recent book, I reprint some words from a British Embassy cable, sent from Baghdad to the Foreign Office in 1976. The subject is Iraq's new leader. His quiet coup d'etat is reassuringly described as "the first smooth transfer of power since 1958."