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Cell phone handset maker Sony Ericsson will move its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta and close a half-dozen sites worldwide as it retrenches against what it expects will be a tighter market and cuts about 1,600 jobs globally.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter profit and revenue fell due to reduced volume in North American businesses and lower year-over-year iron ore pricing.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s profit more than doubled in the third quarter, helped by cost-cutting, new products and lower raw material costs. But its shares plummeted nearly 20 percent on its forecast for an operating loss in its key North American market this quarter.
A Germany-based solar company plans to open its first North American manufacturing site in Denver.
Nissan Motor Co. will show off the automaker's all-electric Leaf in a North American tour starting Nov. 13 in Los Angeles.
European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV on Tuesday named General Electric Co.'s Sean O'Keefe as chief executive officer of its North American division, effective Nov. 1.
Weatherford International Ltd. on Monday said weakened demand for North American drilling slashed its third-quarter profits by 79 percent, but an uptick in international revenue helped soften the blow.
The Toledo Zoo says one of the oldest female chimpanzees in the North American zoo population has died.
Rock band Def Leppard has canceled the final leg of its North American tour.
Shares of RailAmerica Inc., a North American railroad company that private equity firm Fortress Investment Group LLC bought in 2007, dropped Tuesday on their first day of public trading.
Less than a week after reporting a sharp drop in September sales, GM said its U.S. sales chief is leaving as the automaker struggles to prop up its falling share of the market.
Six months after actress Natasha Richardson died following a fall at the Mount Tremblant ski resort in Quebec, the company that operates the facility has announced helmet requirements at its North American resorts.
The owner of Sheraton hotels will offer thousands of guests a free night's stay in dozens of North American locations as part of a massive campaign that kicks off Wednesday to highlight the chain's $6 billion revitalization efforts.
Nearly three weeks ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates guaranteed themselves of becoming the first major North American pro sports team to endure 17 consecutive losing seasons. Then it got worse.
Cummins Filtration, a division of diesel engine manufacturer Cummins Inc., said Tuesday it is consolidating a "significant" portion of its North American filter assembly operations into one of its Mexican plants over the next several months, meaning the loss of about 400 jobs.
American wildlife officials and ranchers are raising questions over a plan to release a rare North American gray wolf to its historic range in northern Mexico: Will it stay south of the border and what can be done if it threatens livestock?
North American leaders say they will work together to fight swine flu and climate change.
A day before facing a potentially boisterous town hall in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama praised the spirited debate over his health care plans on Monday and predicted "sensible and reasoned arguments" would ultimately prevail in Congress.
International Paper Co. on Thursday reported a 40 percent drop in second-quarter profit but said the worst of the global recession appears to be over and that demand is steadying.
A joint U.S.-Canada expedition sailing next month to the icy waters off the northern coastline both countries share will help map the farthest reaches of the North American continent, but it won't deal with a long-running dispute over a resource-rich part of the Beaufort Sea.
Swedish wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson on Saturday said it had penned a deal to buy a majority of Nortel Networks' North American wireless business for $1.13 billion.
Although General Motors' North American sales dropped sharply last quarter as it headed into U.S. bankruptcy protection, strong growth in its Asia-Pacific region offset much of the decline, and the automaker ended up with global sales down 15 percent for the quarter.
A subsidiary of German auto parts maker Continental AG plans to expand operations at a North Carolina brake systems plant as it looks ahead to North American automakers eventually revving up production again.
The White House says President Barack Obama will travel to Mexico next month to meet with North American leaders.
With the NHL and NBA playoffs finally over, the North American team sports stage now belongs to America’s pasttime. And no team sport boasts as many unique, in-game traditions than the great sport of baseball, where each ballpark offers something new.
Happy Birthday, Zora Neale Hurston, African-American AuthorZora Neale Hurston turned challenges into motivation. In relentlessly striving for something bigger and better, she ultimately made a name for herself among the leading artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Pyramid Saimira, One of India's Cinema Powerhouses, Enters North American MarketOne of the world's biggest movie theater operators has acquired FunAsiA, a Texas company that offers a unique, Bollywood-based multimedia entertainment format appealing to the booming population of affluent South Asians.
North American Union manifesto demonstrates ideological ties to new form of NazismSociety would operate with "order", under the purposeful control and direction of "wise men", and the masses would know their place in this type of society.
Three Cents to Canada-U.S. ParityWith numbers not seen since the late '70s, there is considerable controversy surrounding the near-parity of the Canadian and American dollars. Will the value garnered through imports make up for the export loss?
Looking Out for Numero UnoMexico City—A watchword of Mexican politics is "Show me a politician who is poor and I will show you a poor politician." In accord with this adage, many Mexican officials enjoy generous salaries and lavish fringe benefits.
Prehistoric 'Chewing Tobacco' Yields Viable Human DNAIn a groundbreaking study, two Harvard scientists have for the first time extracted human DNA from ancient artifacts. The work potentially opens up a new universe of sources for ancient genetic material, which is used to map human migrations in prehistoric times.
An Inconvenient Solution Carbon trading, the increasingly accepted answer to global warming, will cost far more than we're being told.
Hot tempers on global warmingINTRODUCING Newsweek's Aug. 13 cover story on global warming "denial," editor Jon Meacham brings up an embarrassing blast from his magazine's past: an April 1975 story about global cooling, and the coming ice age that scientists then were predicting.
Van Halen to tour with Roth? Van Halen are reportedly set to reunite for an extensive tour of North America. The band will announce 50 North American dates with singer David Lee Roth beginning in October, according to Billboard. It will be their first tour together in more than 20 years.
Canada joins rush to claim the Arctic Canada raised the stakes in the battle to claim ownership of the Arctic by sending Stephen Harper, prime minister, on a three-day trek to the region, just days after the Russians planted a flag on the seabed at the North Pole.
GameTap Signs Exclusive Deal With CodemastersAll new titles to be available day and date only on GameTap
Monster.com to cut 800 jobsi found some humor in this. the website that gets people jobs fires some of their own.
Free Upgrades For GripShift!Free upgrades for new and current players are being implemented
BFG Tech Teams Up With iGamesBFG Tech Supports Dynamic Game Center Industry through Partnership with iGames
North American Union to Replace the USA? President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.
Earth's internal heat keeps continents afloatSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — If it weren't for the hot rocks down below Earth's crust, most of North America would be below sea level, report researchers who say the significance of Earth's internal heat has been overlooked.
Diesels Poised to Surpass Hybrids in the USAs Congress, the automakers and delegates to the G8 Summit spar about increasing fuel-economy standards and what other measures to take to insure energy security and curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions people around the world are increasingly taking matters into their own hands b …
Oregon researchers involved in new Clovis-age impact theoryDid a comet hit the Great Lakes region and fragment human populations 12,900 years ago?
Age Comet Impact TheoryTwo University of Oregon researchers are on a multi-institutional 26-member team proposing a startling new theory: that an extraterrestrial impact, possibly a comet, set off a 1,000-year-long cold spell and wiped out or fragmented the prehistoric Clovis culture and a variety of a …
Secret Soviet Plans for the Complete Removal of the North American ContinentSecret Soviet Plans for the Complete Removal of the North American Continent
DaimlerChrysler to trim 10,000 jobs and three plantsDaimlerChrysler is planning to make as many as 10,000 workers redundant and close up to three North American factories in a round of job cuts dubbed the "Valentine's Day Massacre" by union bosses.
DNA Gatherers Hit a Snag: The Tribes Don't Trust Them - New York TimesSOUTH NAKNEK, Alaska — The National Geographic Society's multimillion-dollar research project to collect DNA from indigenous groups around the world in the hopes of reconstructing humanity's ancient migrations has come to a standstill on its home turf in North America. Ski …
GM and Ford pledge assets to secure loansAs two of the three biggest American car makers turn over their assets in an attempt to save their sinking ship,the outsourcing of American jobs rears its ugly head.As money lenders and share holders battle it out the American tax payer will be the ones fitting the bill in the lo …
Malkin can't give growing reputation the slipYou could tell right away the kid was a hockey player.
"North America is a key market for PROSTEP's customers in Automotive, Aerospace, Heavy Machinery, and Electronics," said Bernd Pätzold, President & CEO - PROSTEP AG.
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