je.st
news
Tag: big
Big Blue Posts Mixed Fourth Quarter
2015-01-20 23:48:05| Electronics - Topix.net
International Business Machines Corp reported a better-than-expected quarterly adjusted profit, helped by increasing demand for its fast-growing cloud business. Net income fell to $5.48 billion, or $5.51 per share, in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, from $6.19 billion, or $5.73 per share, a year earlier.
Calif Forests: Where Have All the Big Trees Gone?
2015-01-20 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-and climate change seems to be a major factor. The number of trees larger than two feet in diameter has declined by 50 percent on more than 46,000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds. No area was immune, from the foggy northern coast to the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the San Gabriels above Los Angeles. In the Sierra high...
Big Oil Gets Serious on Cost Cuts in Worst Slump Since 1986
2015-01-19 08:34:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Major oil companies are awaking from their slumber and facing up to the magnitude of the crash in crude prices. From Royal Dutch Shell Plc canceling a $6.5 billion project in Qatar to Schlumberger Ltd. firing about 9,000 people and Statoil ASA giving up exploration in Greenland, the oil industry this week concluded that the slump is no blip.
Big Oil Gets Serious on Cost Cuts in Worst Slump Since 1986
2015-01-19 06:12:17| Electronics - Topix.net
Major oil companies are awaking from their slumber and facing up to the magnitude of the crash in crude prices. From Royal Dutch Shell Plc canceling a $6.5 billion project in Qatar to Schlumberger Ltd. firing about 9,000 people and Statoil ASA giving up exploration in Greenland, the oil industry this week concluded that the slump is no blip.
Progress in big fight for internet access in schools
2015-01-19 05:15:14| Wireless - Topix.net
Evan Marwell sensed a problem in 2011 when he suggested that his daughter's seventh-grade teacher use a popular online education course in class, and she replied, "It doesn't work." It worked fine, actually.
Sites : [462] [463] [464] [465] [466] [467] [468] [469] [470] [471] [472] [473] [474] [475] [476] [477] [478] [479] [480] [481] next »