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Sales disappoint, but tax gain lifts Amgen profit

2013-04-24 02:02:04| Biotech - Topix.net

Tax credits helped biotech giant Amgen report first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations, but sales growth disappointed investors.

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EU: Lifts trade and economic sanctions against Burma

2013-04-23 13:37:50| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

The European Union has lifted the last of its trade and economic sanctions against Burma/Myanmar in response to what it describes as "the remarkable process of reform" that has taken place in the country over the past two years.

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Facebook lifts the lid on its water, energy use

2013-04-23 11:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: Two years ago, Facebook created the Open Compute Project to rewrite the rules for data centre efficiency, by using approaches that could be shared with other organisations. This week, it started publishing the results of that work in the form of two public dashboards that track near real-time energy and water usage at its locations in Prineville, Oregon, and Forest City, North Carolina. Its progress so far is notable. Facebook estimates that the "vanity-free servers" and best practices embraced...

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Hasbro: Monopoly token naming contest lifts sales

2013-04-23 04:41:11| Toys - Topix.net

Hasbro reported first-quarter results Monday that beat Wall Street expectations as the toy maker benefited from an online contest that let people vote to eliminate one of its Monopoly The newest Monopoly token, a cat, rests on a Boardwalk deed next to a die and houses at Hasbro headquarters, in Pawtucket, R.I. PAWTUCKET, R.I. - Hasbro reported ... (more)

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