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Apple iPad 2 Commercial Debuts Today

Apple iPad 2

On the first year anniversary of Apple iPad, the company also launched Sunday the commercial for its latest touch screen tablet iPad 2. The new advertisement, which is dubbed as We Believe, explains the strategy of Apple. The company showed through the ad that they are not only focus on product specifications, but most importantly [...]

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Minmetals Plans To Purchase Equinox For $6.5 B

Minmetals Resource

Minmetals Resource, the Honk Kong unit of the largest metal trader in China, plans to purchase Equinox Minerals for $6.5 billion. Equinox is the biggest copper mine in Africa and Minmetals want to gain control to run the company with their supervision. According to the Hong Kong-based firm, they offer for C$7 per share, or [...]

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ACM Awards Brings Country Singers to Las Vegas

ACM Awards

The country singers participated in the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) in Las Vegas hoping to get lucky not only on the awards night but also on the nearby casinos. Joey and Rory, husband and wife singers, who won the top new vocal duo in 2010, were seen at the black jack [...]

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Google Android tops mobile platform, comScore says

Google Android

According to the mobile report of comScore, Google Android topped the mobile platform, increasing seven points since November last year. It also increased its top place in the market share with 33 percent. Following next to Google Android is Research in Motion (RIM) with a market share of 28.9 percent. Apple landed in the third [...]

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Cancer rates in US drop, probability to survive increases

Cancer rates

The government research reported that the rates of cancer in the United States dropped from 2003 to 2007, while the probability to survive in this illness increased. The Yearly Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer demonstrated a turn down of somewhat below one percent every year for new diagnoses of cancer for [...]

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FDA Panels Vote Not to Require Package Warnings on Products with Food Dyes

Products with Food Dyes

Majority of the panel voted not to require package warnings on the products that uses food coloring. According to a panel of Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there is not enough evidence that can directly show that food coloring can really cause hyperactivity to children. The panel of FDA said that more studies are needed [...]

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Researchers say screening does not cut prostate cancer mortalities

prostate cancer screening

According to researchers, they discovered no distinction in the rate of prostate cancer mortalities between men who does not screened and those who were occasionally screened. The researchers studied over 9,000 Swedish men for two decades and yet testing for prostate cancer does not cut the risks of dying from this kind of illness. Regular [...]

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