Новости за 22.04.2012

Tennis Now's Ted LePak covers Monte Carlo results, reviews Fed Cup play this weekend, and John Isner talks about playing mixed doubles with Serena Williams in the Olympics! Stay tuned through the week as we bring you updates from the Barcelona, Bucharest, Fes, and Stuttgart tournaments!

The new investor bywords are big data. Initial public offerings last week for both Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) and Proofpoint (Nasdaq: PFPT) were smash hits because of it. Established companies like International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, reported better-than-expected quarterly reports because enterprises ordered more servers and software. Last month, two other giants, Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), did the same.

Electrical power in India is controlled by one company, the 90-percent state-owned behemoth Coal India Ltd., which also happens to be the largest coal-mining firm on the planet. Two years ago, when CIL went public, shares jumped 40 percent on the first day of trading; the IPO was one of the biggest Indian markets had ever seen. CIL controls 80 percent of coal production in the nation, giving it dominance in a country where coal provides for more than half of the electricity.

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One of the lifelines installed in 2004 broke over the winter of 2012. I replaced all of lifelines with bare stainless steel wire and I replaced all of the fittings.

Despite a fervent defense by the crews that fly the C-27J transport aircraft and legislators whose states stand to lose jobs from its demise, the Air Force is trying to cut the program just eight months after the twin-propeller mini-cargo plane made its first combat flight.

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