Posts tagged with 3 billion

1 comment, 07/06/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in apple, download, iphone, mobile, Movies, Music, News, program, Technology, World News

In the music business, they would call it a comeback. Almost a decade ago, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, European technology entrepreneurs, unleashed the Napster-like file-sharing program Kazaa on the Web, allowing millions of users3 bll to freely download songs, movies and TV shows. Kazaa... Read more...

Schools Chief Ackerman Discloses New, Million-Dollar Security System at South Phila. H.S.

1 comment, 13/05/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in General

A startling admission today from Philadelphia schools superintendent Arlene Ackerman: the district spent $1 million to install security cameras at South Philadelphia High School in the wake of racial violence there. Ackerman was testifying before City Council on the district's $3-billion-plus b... Read more...

FEATURED VIDEO

AstraZeneca Pays $520 Million Fine Over Marketing Of Seroquel

1 comment, 27/04/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Health, mac, News, program, World News

AstraZeneca has completed a deal to pay $520 million to settle federal investigations into marketing practices for its blockbuster schizophrenia drug, Seroquel, the Attorney General, Eric Holder, said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. “AstraZeneca paid kickbacks to doctors as part of an... Read more...

US Postal Service Hopes to Cut Saturday Mail

2 comments, 01/04/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual, Stranger than fiction

Facing a $238 billion budget deficit by 2020, the U.S. Postal Service filed a proposal to Congress recommending they be allowed to cut their Saturday service. According to MSNBC.com, the financially strapped agency believes that one less day of service will save them billions. Their projected s... Read more...

Banks earn $2.8B in 3Q; FDIC says dangers persist

0 comments, 25/11/2009, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Illuminati, News, Politics As Usual, Stranger than fiction, World News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The apparent end of the recession and stabilizing financial markets have not cured the banking industry, as souring and past-due loans have reached the highest levels in 26 years, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday. Banks earned $2.8 billion in the third quarter... Read more...

Are the Earth's Oceans Hitting Their Carbon Cap?

0 comments, 19/11/2009, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in World News

Like the vast forests of the world, which continually suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen, the planet's oceans serve as vital carbon sinks. Last year the oceans absorbed as much as 2.3 billion tons of carbon, or about one-fourth of all manmade carbon emissions. Without the a... Read more...