New buyer must cough up CYP 133 mln Global banking giant HSBC is ready to dispose of its 21.16% stake it controls in the Laiki Bank group, ending weeks of speculation of
A stressed Dutch mother has offered her one-year-old son for free through an auction website on the Internet, national public radio reported Wednesday. The Marktplaats website, the Dutch subsidiary of Ebay, has
A Taiwan company has developed a solar-power notebook computer to save computer users the trouble of charging batteries by plugging them in. Micro Star Industry (MSI) said it spent a year to
The number of unemployed persons registered at the District Labour Offices on the last day of December 2005 increased by 364 compared with November 2005 and reached 13,786 persons or 3.9 %
Total exports of goods continued to rise strongly in November 2005, reaching CYP 68.2 mln, an increase of 29.3% on November 2004. On a year-to-date basis, total exports rose by 23.7% to
Texas Instruments Inc. said it is selling its sensors and controls unit to private equity firm Bain Capital for 3 billion dollars to focus on its mobile-phone chips business. The sensors division
Microsoft is joining forces with music broadcaster MTV to provide music over the Internet, according to a release from the software provider in Redmond in the U.S. state of Washington. The new
