Archive for May, 2009
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MultiMedia SRL, international award for quality and commercial prestige
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Press Release 15.05.2009 MULTIMEDIA SRL – ROMANIA (MultiMedia) has been selected to receive one of the Majestic Symbols of Quality which aim to present a powerful tool in assessing progress and setting priorities for policies of International sector performance, especially in the specific fields of the Macro and Micro environment -zooming in the areas of [...]
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David Cameron is bet £100,000 he will renege on EU pledge (Times Online)
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
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Dying man wins bet he would live (BBC News)
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
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Losing weight proves to be punters’ best bet (BBC News)
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
A new method of losing weight by betting on your own success and having to pay up if you fail is gaining popularity in the UK.
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You bet-cha: Palin, Sanford wager on hockey series (AP via Yahoo! News)
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Alaska’s Sarah Palin and South Carolina’s Mark Sanford are already squaring off — and the presidential election is still three years away.
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US Airways is a gutsy contrarian bet right now (MENAFN)
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
US Airways is a gutsy contrarian bet right now
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Too early to bet on summer trash strike (Toronto Sun)
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Councillors and union officials say it’s too early to bet on a summer garbage strike, even though the city’s 6,200 outside workers — including trash collectors — voted 89% to strike earlier this week if talks break down.
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Emerging-Market Investors Rate China as Best Bet, Merrill Says (Bloomberg)
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
May 21 (Bloomberg) — China is the most-favored bet among global emerging-market stock investors following a “major U- turn” on growth expectations for the world’s third-largest economy, according to a Merrill Lynch & Co. survey.
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Starved girl: ‘lucky bet’ for accused dad (The Age)
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
A MAN accused of starving his daughter to death told police he woke on the morning of her death, checked the scratchings for the day’s horse racing and won his first bet, unaware that his wife was still with their dead seven-year-old daughter after finding her hours earlier, a court heard yesterday.
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Tipsy Trader Gets City Ban After £6.5m Bet (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
A tipsy trader has been banned from the City for making a £6.5m bet after a boozy three-and-a-half-hour lunch.
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Iconix Brand Group, Inc. Honored With Wal-Mart’s ‘Big Bet’ Award (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Iconix Brand Group, Inc. , today announced that the Company was awarded the Wal-Mart “Big Bet” Award, for the successful launch of the Company’s Op® brand and the re-launch of the Company’s Starter® and Danskin Now® brands.
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Now you can bet on the dole queue (Adelaide Now)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
HEARTLESS punters can now bet on how long the dole queue will get.
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Zephyrs cash in on Bet, blank Red Rovers (The Morning Call)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Bet throws five-hitter and Whitehall advances to play No. 1 seed Stroudsburg. In baseball there are big runs and little runs. They both look the same in the score book, but they have different effects on the opposing teams.
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Shin Bet: Terrorists Using Facebook to Entrap Israelis (Israel National News)
Monday, May 18th, 2009
(IsraelNN.com) The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) said Monday that terrorists are using the Facebook internet-based social network to try and entrap Israelis and gather sensitive security information.
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Beijing: You Can Bet On China’s Recovery (Forbes)
Monday, May 18th, 2009
China will take any additional measures to maintain the momentum of recovery, a top planning official said.
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Woo dominates Subic triathlon but local bet Catiil also shines (GMA News)
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Hong Kong”s Daniel Lee Chi Woo won his fifth Subic Bay International Triathlon Championship title with another dominating show in the men”s elite of the 2009 edition on Sunday at the Subic Bay Freeport. But local bet Neil Catiil also got his share of the spotlight as he gave the Philippines its first Top 5 [...]
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Popolare Net Falls Less Than Estimated on Rates Bet (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Friday, May 15th, 2009
May 15 (Bloomberg) — Banco Popolare SC , the first Italian bank to seek state aid during the financial crisis, reported a better-than-estimated drop in first-quarter earnings after benefiting from a derivatives bet on interest rates.
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Bet Dollar to Fall Against Canadian Dollar, Morgan Stanley Says (Bloomberg)
Friday, May 15th, 2009
May 15 (Bloomberg) — Investors should bet the dollar will drop against the Canadian dollar amid an improvement in the global economy, according to Morgan Stanley.
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Bet payoff: Lots of beer to Chicago mayor (UPI)
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 14 (UPI) — A bet is a bet and Vancouver, British Columbia’s mayor delivered food, snacks and lots of beer to Chicago’s mayor after the Blackhawks defeated the Canucks.
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Beyonce, T.I. lead BET Awards nominees with 5 each (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
For Beyonce and T.I., No. 1 is followed by five — BET Awards nominations, that is.
