Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:10:06 +0200 (AFP/File) - A consortium led by Apple and Microsoft won an auction for some 6,000 patents held by bankrupt Canadian firm Nortel, their $4.5 billion bid beating Google and Intel, Nortel announced.(AFP/File/BORIS HORVAT)
Power lines in north-west England. A consortium led by Hong ...
Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:00:07 +0100 (AFP/File) - Power lines in north-west England. A consortium led by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing said Monday that it has completed a 9.28 billion-dollar takeover of the British power distribution network of French electricity giant EDF.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)
A New Zealand fundraising consortium was reported Saturday to ...
Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:00:22 +0200 (AFP/Getty Images/File) - A New Zealand fundraising consortium was reported Saturday to have run foul of US tycoon Donald Trump, pictured here on September 2010, for using the card-playing term "Trumpcard".(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mike Stobe)
The sun sets over the Kuwait City skyline. A consortium led ...
Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:50:03 +0200 (AFP/File) - The sun sets over the Kuwait City skyline. A consortium led by South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co has made the lowest bid of 2.6 billion dollars for a long-delayed Kuwaiti causeway project, the tenders committee said Monday.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)
An international consortium of geneticists on Saturday will ...
Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:40:02 +0200 (AFP/File) - An international consortium of geneticists on Saturday will activate a DNA barcode library in Toronto representing almost 80,000 species, the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL) announced. To mark the event, Toronto's CN Tower -- the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere -- is to be illuminated as a giant bar code, iBOl said.(AFP/File/Geoff Robins)