With the holiday travel season fast approaching, videogame makers are making sure they have games and consoles handy for trains, planes and automobiles — and so are holiday destinations. Nintendo is introducing two limited edition Nintendo DS bundles on November 28 which include a Mario Red Nintendo DS with the "New Super Mario Bros." game
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An Australian restaurateur left holding a hefty unpaid bill when five young diners bolted used the popular social network website Facebook to track them down — and they got their just desserts. Peter Leary from seafood restaurant Seagrass on Melbourne's Southbank was fuming when the diners ate their way through the menu, pairing oysters, trout
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Apple Inc, facing a tight U.S. consumer spending environment, is gearing up for a one-day sale on Friday and at least one analyst expects the company to offer discounts of up to 15 percent. The day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, is the traditional kickoff to the U.S. holiday shopping season and one of
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Louis Plc (LUI.CY) released a disappointing set of 9M08 results posting a loss of EUR 2.8 mln compared to a profit of EUR 30.4 mln in 9M07 attributable to shareholders primarily related with the weak performance in the cruise business. Group revenues decreased by 14.6% Year-on-Year to EUR 227 mln owing to a weaker performance
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Orphanides Plc (ORF.CY) reported a 26% Year-on-Year increase in sales during the first nine months of 2008 to EUR 125.5 mln on the back of an increase in the number of the Company’s supermarkets in Cyprus, but there was a mild decline in overall profitability due to intense competition in the sector. Gross margins mere
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Ermes Department Stores Plc (ERME.CY) that among others includes the Debenhams, Avenue and Next stores in Cyprus reported unchanged net profits during the first nine months of 2008 with profit at EUR 5.15 mln unchanged from 9M07 when profits amounted to EUR 5.13 mln. EPS was reported at EUR 0.029. Total sales however gained an
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The European Commission has decided to refer Cyprus to the European Court of Justice over the award of a public contract for Vasilikos Power Station, the EU’s executive body announced in Brussels Thursday. The Commission will refer Cyprus to the European Court over the tendering procedure launched by the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) for
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Indian commandos freed hostages from Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel on Thursday but battled on with Islamist militants who launched an audacious attack across India's financial capital, killing more than 100 people. The gunmen arrived by boats in Mumbai on Wednesday, before fanning out and attacking luxury hotels, a landmark cafe, hospitals and a railway station,
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By Neil Chatterjee and Kevin Lim Wealthy Indians living overseas were shocked by the latest attacks on the country's financial capital, but still see their home country as a good place to invest given its long-term growth potential, bankers said. Joseph Poon, head of Macquarie Private Wealth Asia in Singapore, said both his Indian and
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Euro zone economic sentiment hit 15-year lows in November and inflation expectations among companies and households fell off a cliff, boosting the case for a bigger than 50-basis-point rate cut by the ECB next week. A monthly European Commission survey showed that growing pessimism in industry and services pulled euro zone economic sentiment down to
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