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Continental to start Newark-Munich service   11/19/2009
Continental Airlines Inc., the world's fifth largest airline, said Thursday it will launch daily nonstop service between its New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport and Munich on March 27.The new flight has been timed to provide connections at Munich to Continental's alliance...   Continue
ImmunoGen licenses technology to Amgen for $1M   11/19/2009
ImmunoGen Inc. said Thursday that Amgen Inc. licensed rights to a second potential cancer-treatment from the company for $1 million upfront.Immunogen develops cancer treatments using its Tumor-Activated Prodrug, or TAP, technology. The technology uses antibodies to deliver a killer agent to a...   Continue
Scathing audit says Newfoundland ferry service fails to offer reliable service   11/19/2009
The Crown corporation operating the ferry service that links Nova Scotia with Newfoundland is ineffective, inefficient and plagued with serious problems, the federal auditor general says in a report released Thursday.The scathing, five-year study by Sheila Fraser's office cites Marine Atlantic...   Continue
FairWest Energy posts Q3 loss, reverses year-ago profits; revenues down   11/19/2009
FairWest Energy Corp. (TSX:FEC) reports third-quarter loss of $1.9 million or 2.1 cents a share, reversing profits of $610,992 or 0.6 of a cent a share in the corresponding 2008 period. The junior oil and gas company's revenues were slashed to $1.3 million from $3.5 million.   Continue
3 charged in Pa. with redirecting Comcast traffic   11/19/2009
Federal prosecutors have charged three men with diverting traffic from the Web site of Philadelphia-based telecommunications provider Comcast Corp.Authorities on Thursday charged a 19-year-old from Newark, Del., a 20-year-old from Tumwater, Wash., and a 27-year-old from Kalamazoo, Mich. The men...   Continue
American Eagle Airlines starts new Miami routes   11/19/2009
American Eagle Airlines, a regional carrier for AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, said Thursday it started several new routes to and from Miami.The carrier began service between Miami and two new locations: Charleston (S.C.) International Airport and McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) in Knoxville,...   Continue
Fitch upgrades Tenneco ratings on better earnings   11/19/2009
Fitch Ratings on Thursday upgraded the issuer default rating on auto parts maker Tenneco Inc. by one notch thanks to cost-cutting, a better auto-making environment and a capital-raising effort that should reduce debt.The outlook is stable.Fitch upgraded the issuer default rating to "B'' from...   Continue
Intel investing in Paris research center   11/19/2009
Intel Corp. is teaming with a French university and government agencies to open a research center in Paris aimed at building faster supercomputers.Intel, the world's largest provider of microprocessors used in personal computers, said it will make a "multimillion" dollar investment in the...   Continue
SWEPCO buying Louisiana cooperative   11/19/2009
A subsidiary of power generator American Electric Power plans to buy a Louisiana electric cooperative for $94 million in a deal expected to save the cooperative's members 20 percent a year on their electricity bills.Southwestern Electric Power Co. said Thursday that the 30,000 members of Valley...   Continue
NY AG: AES Corp. agrees to pollution disclosures   11/19/2009
AES Corp., which operates several coal-fired power plants in the U.S., has agreed to put more information about global warming in its public financial disclosures.New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that AES, based in Arlington, Va., is the latest power company to agree to give...   Continue

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