While the top cat’s away, the mice won’t be playing just for cheese. Six-time Bridgestone Invitational champion Tiger Woods will miss the World Golf Championships event at Firestone Country Club for the first time since he became a PGA Tour regular in 1997. The world’s No. 1 player is recuperating …
Read More »Blog Buzz: McCain Attacks Obama With the Troops, and Vice Presidential Speculation Grows Odder (US News & World Report)
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Read More »TNT Slumps After Reporting 16% Decline in Second-Quarter Profit (Bloomberg.com)
July 28 (Bloomberg) — TNT NV , Europe’s No.2 express- delivery company, slumped as much as 11 percent after second-quarter profit fell short of analyst estimates and it said 2008 earnings will be at the low end of a forecast range. More: continued here
Read More »Former Google engineers launch new search engine – Bizjournals.com
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Read More »TNT Profit Falls 16% as on Strong Euro, Mail Earnings (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
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Read More »FedEx Ground subsidiary SmartPost selects DeSoto County for 21st distribution center (BizJournals)
FedEx SmartPost, a subsidiary of FedEx Ground, signed a 150,527-square-foot lease with Hillwood Investment Properties at DeSoto Trade Center Building Three in Southaven. More: continued here
Read More »PGA Tour Rookie Chez Reavie Claims First Win at Canadian Open (Bloomberg.com)
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Read More »Who is your favourite deliveryman? (The New Straits Times)
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Read More »Jupiter golfer Richard S. Johnson shoots for FedEx Cup after first victory (The Palm Beach Post)
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Read More »Sale of ex-Scarborough man's life on eBay falls through – Scarborough Today
Daily Mail Sale of ex-Scarborough man's life on eBay falls throughScarborough Today, UK –Jul 25, 2008By Staff Copy A former Scarborough man's dreams of making a fresh start by selling his life on eBay have been dashed. Ian Usher, who once ran a jetski …Ebay life auction man Ian Usher fails to …
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