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Archive for March 2008

March 6th, 2008

Retailers Surprise By Beating Weak Expectations

Heading into February retailers have been struggling to meet same-store sale expectations. In a surprising release though led by Wal-Mart, February same-store sales were beat across the board.
Wal-Mart posted a 2.6% increase in same U.S.store sales excluding fuel sales, which topped projections of flat to 2% growth.
Other retailers include names such as Sam’s Club, Costco […]

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March 4th, 2008

Facebook Adds Google Exec as COO

The very popular and extremely fast growing Facebook.com today announced it will be added one of Google’s top executives to take on the position of COO.
The Google Exec is named Sheryl Sandberg. She was vice president of global online sales and operations for Google, and she will start her job at Facebook on March 24th.
This […]

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March 4th, 2008

New Hybrid System Announced by GM

Expect to see General Motors Corp (GM) releasing its first lithium-ion battery powered hybrid engine system to the market by 2010.
This new lithium-ion battery will deliver an impressive three times the power of GM’s current nickel metal hydride batteries.
Lithium-ion technology as it is called has been at the top of research teams priority lists recently […]

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