Progress Index Post office makeover to be finished in JuneProgress IndexPatrick Kane/Progress-Index Photos Rick Jones, left, and Tony Porter apply paint stripper on the upper portion of the Post Office's cupola, which was removed by crane and placed on the ground. Restoration work continues on the 1936 building. by markus …

Telegraph.co.uk Key facts about SkypeInternational Business TimesThe Luxembourg-based Skype is owned by an investor group led by Silver Lake and which includes eBay Inc, Joltid Limited and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz. …Microsoft Near Deal to Acquire SkypeWall Street …

IN RE eBAY SELLER ANTITRUST LITIGATIONLeagle.comPlaintiffs, several eBay auction sellers ("Plaintiffs"), appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant eBay, Inc. ("eBay") in this putative class action alleging monopolization and attempted monopolization of the online … More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Skype's Road To $8 Billion (MSFT, EBAY)San Francisco ChronicleSkype is all-but confirmed to be acquired by Microsoft for over $8 billion, including debt. It's a long road for a company founded back in 2003 that went through fundings, acquisitions, divestures, and a postponed IPO. It started in the small …

Food stamps go mainstreamphillyBurbs.com (blog)One in seven Americans takes food stamps. That's 44 million people or 14 percent of the population, a record. Put another way, the highest number of Americans ever require government assistance to eat. These are hard times for millions of people, … More: continued here

by markus schmidt PETERSBURG – The major makeover of the city’s main post office on Franklin Street will likely wrap up next month.”We’ll probably be done by the end of June,” Norm Kuras of Kuras Maintenance and Repairs from South Carolina said yesterd More: continued here

New Patterns of Concrete Stamps for Concrete Pool DecksAzom.comConcreteNetwork.com is exploring how concrete pool decks can be renovated using concrete stamps. The latest and existing pool decks can make use of recently released concrete stamp products. During summer, stamped concrete is one of the … More: continued here

Liverpool postal workers walk out over sackingsLiverpool Daily PostROYAL Mail bosses and union officials last night ended wildcat strikes which broke out at two Liverpool sorting offices after six staff were sacked. Around 200 staff walked out yesterday morning at the Sandhills and Brunswick sorting offices, …Liverpool unofficial postal strike …

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New Royal Mail stamps feature Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia starsGolf TalkA new set of Royal Mail stamps celebrates mythical Britain by featuring the villain in the Harry Potter movie and book series and the lion Aslan from the Narnia movie and book series. Eight stamps were launched … …