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Chip start-ups faced financial blows in 2013
2014-01-19 10:36:04| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Venture capital funding, public offerings, and acquisitions in the semiconductor industry is said to have fallen considerably in 2013 and will continue to do so.Last year, 32 semiconductor funding deals raised $357.8 million; the dollar amount decreas...... What is a semiconductor? A class of materials, for instance silicon and germanium, whose ... (more)
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Faced With Sea Ice Loss, Emperor Penguins Alter Breeding Tactics
2014-01-09 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Confronted with the loss of sea ice in some parts of Antarctica, four colonies of emperor penguins have come up with an innovative breeding strategy to adapt to their changing environment. Using satellite images, an international team of scientists tracked the four colonies from 2008 to 2012. In the first three years, the emperor penguins hatched and incubated eggs in their customary fashion atop the sea ice that freezes during the Antarctic winter and spring. But in 2011 and 2012, sea ice did...
Reflecting on the Challenges Faced in 2013
2013-12-30 19:19:00| National Hog Farmer
By Justin Roelofs, AgStar Financial Services, ACA, Mankato, MN As the end of 2013 approaches, most pork producers are glad to see a new year coming. At AgStar, we monitor a financial database which includes a large portion of AgStars portfolio with producers across the country and nearly one million sows' worth of production. The data shows that the average producer will not see much in the form of positive earnings for 2013. With the drought creating high feed prices and large positive basis on corn for much of the year, its not hard to tell why. On top of that, there were negative basis issues early in 2013 on lean hogs and weve cycled back to large historical negative basis on hogs today. read more
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VIDEO: When energy 'big 6' faced MPs
2013-10-29 21:02:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Senior executives from Britain's big energy firms have been defending their pricing policies.
Bolivar homeowners faced with staggering flood insurance rate increases
2013-10-28 15:15:33| Real Estate - Topix.net
Staggering flood insurance rate increases could slow sales of older homes and possibly even lead to foreclosures for Bolivar Peninsula residents after adoption of a new federal law designed to rescue the federal flood insurance programs from financial straits.Homeowners on the peninsula hope legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate to amend the ... (more)
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