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July 28, 2011 – NEW YORK – MetLife Inc , the largest U.S. life insurer, posted a smaller profit on Thursday as natural disasters at home and abroad and a sharp increase in expenses ate into earnings. But the company beat expectations easily on an operating basis, and shares rose 2.5 percent in after-hours trading. [...]
Our view: Buy Share price: 1,373p (+9.5p) Amid all the doom and gloom across the stock market and beyond, GlaxoSmithKline gave investors a reason to smile yesterday. Yes, turnover was down in the second quarter, but the pace of decline was slower than before. Not just that, but profits were sharply higher, and the second-quarter [...]
ROME – Lottery and gaming giant Lottomatica Group said on Thursday its Providence-based subsidiary GTECH Corp. saw revenue decline 9.8 percent in the first half of 2011. GTECH Lottery revenue dropped to 381.8 million euros ($546 million at an exchange rate of 1 euro per $1.43) in the first six months of the year from [...]
Mozilla’s Firefox is still holding off the surge from Google’s Chrome web browser, but Google at least has expanded well beyond that initial platform, with the stunning success of Android. Now Ars Technica reports Mozilla is looking to catch up, having announced the introduction of its new mobile operating system Boot to Gecko, or B2G [...]
— Four Coastal Bend post offices are among the 3,700 nationwide that the U.S. Postal Service will review for possible closure: Roy Miller, 1340 S. Port Ave., Corpus Christi Six Points, 902 Ayers St., Corpus Christi Austwell in Refugio County Sarita in Kenedy County Citing more customers conducting postal business online, the postal service will [...]
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