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Steve Balmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, has announced its intention to acquire Yahoo Inc for US$44.6 billion. This move is understandable as Microsoft is loosing out to Google in the search engine race. Google is growing leaps and bounds since its IPO in 2004.
Corporate mergers and acquisition seem to be the trend these days. […]

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Another neighbor is renovating his house. He is a new comer to the neighborhood. He bought the house from the previous owner whom I knew very well. The previous owner has upgraded and moved to a semi-detached house. This is the fourth house within my block that is under going major renovation.
The new owner has […]

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Christmas is around the corner. The Christmas tree in my house is already up since last weekend. In fact we put up the Christmas tree as a family project. Last year, my daughter was too young to help out. This year, she was so excited about the Christmas tree and its decorations. She decided on […]

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Commercial vehicles are very dangerous on the roads. I am sure most of you have had many unpleasant experiences dealing with these vehicles. The drivers sped along the highway dangerously without taking the consideration of the safety of other road users. No matter if it’s a truck driver or a bus driver; they will zigzag […]

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While surfing on the internet looking up for information on Las Vegas and its casinos, I found a nice site that provided a comprehensive review for online casinos. It list almost 500 online casinos and provide comprehensive reviews and ranking for each of them
This site gave their own editor’s and players’ reviews for each site. […]

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More people are moving from brick-and-mortar business model to ecommerce. Even homemaker and school kids can do business on the internet. They just need a personal computer, broadband and some nice products. Many companies provide ecommerce facilities to enable people to start up their business easily. They provide end-to-end solution to get the business of […]

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I like browsing blogs online to read about whatever stories people want to tell the rest of the world. Among the blogs that I like to browse are those socio-politico blogs where the bloggers strive to bring awareness to the rest of world about any issues pertaining to the community and country.
There is another group […]

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I have been shopping online for a long time but only limited to buying books from Amazon and magazines from National Geographic. Each time I did an online transaction over the internet, I have never stopped wondering about the engine behind such marvelous ecommerce software.
Recently, I discovered a website featuring shopping cart software that allows […]

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My mobile phone, Nokia N70, is among those models listed which are supposedly to have the faulty battery. According to Nokia, a particular batch of BL-5C type batteries is prone to overheating when the phone was being recharged. There were many instances of overheating reported worldwide and I am not surprised at all. I do […]

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China is in the spot light again for the wrong reason. A fortnight ago, we have the Mattel product recall for their Price & Fisher products Now, a New Zealand government is investigating the claim by TV3’s ‘Target’ consumer program watchdog group  that woolen and cotton clothes imported from China contained a very high level […]

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