DETROIT: General Motors bondholders felt they deserved something like a 58 percent stake in the company in exchange for their billions of dollars in debt. What they were offered wasn’t even close. As a result, the largest industrial bankruptcy in U.S. history is now all but certain. The bondholder rejection virtually ensures GM will file .
SAN FRANCISCO–Google spent Wednesday morning trying to get developers excited about the next generation of Web technologies by showing off how future Web applications will mimic desktop apps. “It’s time for us to take advantage of the amazing opportunity that is before us,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt, kicking off Google I/O 2009 in San .
If you want to consider a difficult computational problem, try thinking of the algorithms required to animate more than 10,000 helium balloons, each with its own string, but each also interdependent on the rest, which are collectively hoisting aloft a small house. That was the challenge the production team at Pixar faced when it set .
PETALING JAYA: Her relatives noticed the scars on the boy’s head three years ago and her colleagues at a music school saw bruises on his face all the time. When they confronted the single mother, she just brushed it off saying her five-year-old son was naughty and was always falling down. However, the truth came .
SHAH ALAM: Being the daughter of a Cabinet minister is not a ticket to a privileged in life, and certainly not an assurance to a better future without having to work hard. With this principle in mind, Sabrina Mohd Shafie, daughter of Rural and Regional Development Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal, strived to prove her ability. .
PETALING JAYA: At the Serdang Hospital, as doctors showed Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil his wounds, the eyes of the boy rescued from abuse lit up after viewing himself in the camera. He started to smile, and showed his chipped and missing tooth. Those present were shocked to see .
BM says that if its former head of mergers and acquisitions, David Johnson, were to depart for Dell it would be a violation of his contract, and last week sued Johnson in federal court. IBM says it is concerned that Johnson working at Dell would cause him to divulge IBM trade secrets to Dell. Johnson .
Sir Alex Ferguson admitted Man United lost to the better side as Barcelona won the Champions League final 2-0 in Rome. United were bright in the initial exchanges but after Samuel Eto’o opened the scoring after 10 minutes, there was only one team in the game as Barca over-ran their opponents in midfield. Lionel Messi .
SHAH ALAM: A university student who was sexually assaulted in her hostel six months ago is suing Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) for negligence. The 21-year-old girl, a second-year Hotel and Tourism Management student, filed the suit at the Sessions Court here on Tuesday. In her suit, she said that the university failed to prevent unauthorised .
Manchester United discovered what it is like to lose a European Cup final as brilliant Barcelona ruled Rome with a 2-0 win. If there is any consolation in failure to become the first side to retain the trophy in the Champions League era, it is that they lost to a side as fluent and brilliant .
