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Amazon Higher Despite Disappointing Earnings

Amazon Higher Despite Disappointing Earnings

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) looking to be a winner in today's trading session after posting its earnings Tuesday. The online retailer reporting EPS of 21 cents on revenue of $21.27 billion, missing the analyst estimate of 28 cents per share on revenue of $

RIM changes name to BlackBerry as BB10 launches

CEO Thorsten Heins unveils new BlackBerry 10 smartphones in New York

ED raids in Punjab, Delhi on drugs mafia

Jalandhar, Jan 30 (IANS) Tracking a money laundering scandal involving nexus between non-resident Indians (NRIs) and the drugs mafia, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday raided 15 locations in Punjab, Delhi and Chandigarh, officials said here.

Pakistan’s exports to India grow 66 percent

New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Pakistan's exports to India in April-December 2012 grew by 66 percent over the same period in 2011, while India's exports to it increased by 16 percent, officials said Wednesday.

India is Dubai airport’s biggest destination country

Dubai, Jan 30 (IANS/WAM) India was the single biggest destination country in 2012 for the Dubai international airport in terms of passenger numbers. The passenger traffic between Dubai and India continued to show robust growth last year, with total passenger traffic rising 7.4 percent year-on-year to 7.34 million.

Air India to hive off two subsidiaries

Mumbai, Jan 30 (IANS) As part of its turnaround plan, Air India will hive off two of its subsidiaries from Friday, an official said here Wednesday. The national carrier's ground handling and maintenance, repair and overhaul will be operated as separate profit centres Feb 1.

Toyota to recall one mn vehicles over glitches

Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp will recall over one million vehicles in the US, Japan, Canada, Mexico to fix problems related to airbags and wipers, Xinhua reported Wednesday. Around 752,000 Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles will be recalled to fix airbags that could be deployed inadvertently. Toyota will also recall 385,000 Lexus IS, including 270,000 vehicles in the US over wiper problems.

Finnair’s load factor up 5.7 percentage points

Helsinki, Jan 30 (IANS) Nordic carrier Finnair has reported a 5.7 percentage point rise in its passenger load factor during December 2012. Finnair's passenger load factor rose to 77.1 percent in the month under review as the airline saw a strong increase in Asian and European traffic. According to the airline, its Asian traffic measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) grew by 12.5 percent and traffic in Europe increased by 15.4 percent on an year-on-year basis

Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati among top 10 languages in Britain

London, Jan 30 (IANS) Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati are among the top 10 languages spoken in Britain, according to latest census figures. BBC reported that the number of people in England and Wales who could not speak any English was 138,

India, Spain to finance joint research on renewable energy

New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) India and Spain Wednesday agreed to finance joint research projects in the area of forecasting of wind power and fabrication of cost effective solar cells. Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah and visiting Spanish Minister of State for Research Development and Innovation, Carmen Vela Olmo, agreed to initiate a second call for research proposals to encourage joint research and development between research institutions as well as industry groups of both the countries, an official release said.