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Semantic Wikipedia search toolPowerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established Web search services such as Google. |
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Play with trains, for real
Tube Lines has brought together the talents and expertise of world-class engineers, project managers and professional support staff.
StanChart hiring 10,000 new workers
Asia-focused banks Standard Chartered expects to add at least 10,000 staff this year, hiring talent from among those fired by shrinking rival banks.
Berlusconi opens door a crack
Silvio Berlusconi said he could permit Alitalia's sale to Air France-KLM if the ailing Italian carrier was given equal footing in a deal, softening his previous stance on the takeover.
- Retail: Grand Theft Auto 4 breaks $500 million
- Automotive: Staff take redundancy
- Construction: Danish production fall
- Finance: UK rates at 5 pct
- Hospitality & Leisure: Throwing away a fortune
- Gap Year: Gadgets threaten Internet's future
- Accountancy: Bailout still a dirty word
- Management Consultancy: $3 bln drive to double profits
- Insurance: JC Flowers' Friends adventure
- Investment Banking: UK mortgage slump
- Retail Banking: Demonstrators disrupt French bank
- Capital Markets: Labour cuts income taxes
- Civil & Structural: Sacyr sets Eiffage exit
- Electrical/Electronic: Hitachi facing another loss
- Energy: World sanitation goals slip
- Aerospace: Alitalia posts loss
- Telecommunications: Modular illuminated pushbutton switches
- Climate Change: Ingenico eyes growth
Food can pass resistant bacteria
The use of antibiotics and other anti-microbial agents throughout the food chain contributes to the growth of resistant bacteria which can be passed on to humans through food, EU's food agency said on Thursday.
- Pharmaceuticals: Aspirin benefits
- Environment/Energy: Ice shrinks in Arctic sea
- Food & Drink: Nippon Suisan slashes profit
- Healthcare: Somalia's crisis
- Research: Staph A camouflage
- IT: Social networks need to be useful
