The high-speed mobile version of Apple Inc's iPad will hit store shelves on April 30, and international pricing for the tablet computer will be spelled out on May 10, the company said on Tuesday. The popular touchscreen device has sold more than 500,000 units of its Wi-Fi model in the U.S. in the week after
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The Statistical Service announced Tuesday the following statistics on farm output. Eggs and chicks The number of eggs for hatching placed in incubation in December reached 62,700 eggs for laying and 1,702,300 eggs for meat. Compared with the previous month, eggs for laying recorded a decrease of 16% whereas the eggs for meat recorded a
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Industrial turnover fell in January as the industrial turnover index dropped by 5.0% over the year earlier to 103.2 (base 2005=100). Industrial production in the same period fell by 3.2%. The manufacturing turnover index for January 2010 fell by 10.3% to 92.1. Manufacturing production in the same period was down by 6.9%.
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Lending bail-out funds to Greece at high interest rates would make an economic recovery impossible, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday. IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard also said the Group of 20 nations should focus on reducing their own debt and deficit. "Of course, Greece
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Greece managed to place 1.95 billion euros ($2.63 billion) of 13-week T-bills on Tuesday but had to pay paid a high yield of 3.65 percent, up from 1.67 percent in a previous Jan. 19 sale. The debt-stricken country also announced on Tuesday that unemployment had risen to a six-year high of 11.3 percent in January,
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European shares rose on Tuesday, buoyed by corporate earnings optimism, while concerns over Greece's parlous fiscal situation weighed on the euro. Investors anticipated strong numbers from Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), which deflected attention away from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's fraud charge against it. Sentiment was also lifted by Citigroup reporting its best
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Flights from large parts of Europe were set to resume on Tuesday under a deal to free up airspace closed by a huge ash cloud, but strengthened eruptions from an Icelandic volcano threatened to unravel the plans. British air traffic controllers warned a new ash cloud was headed for major air routes, prompting British Airways
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A December cyberattack on Google Inc computers hit the company's password system that millions of people worldwide use to access almost all of the company's Web services, The New York Times said, citing a person with direct knowledge of the investigation. The closely-guarded program is considered a crown jewel at Google, enabling users and employees
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The videoconferencing industry is getting a boost in demand from the disruption to business travel across Europe caused by a volcano in Iceland, Cisco Systems said. "The only evidence is anecdotal, but you will not get a demo room in any of the Cisco facilities," said Fredrik Halvorsen, former Tandberg CEO and head of the
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Cyprus spent less on social protection than the EU average in 2007, according to a newly published report entitled Social Protection in Cyprus 2007. Social Protection expenditure includes old age, sickness, disability, unemployment. housing and other categories of benefits. In 2007 social protection expenditure amounted to EUR 2,880.4 mln (EUR 2.9 bln) compared with EUR
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