Building.co.uk Work starts on £150m Royal Mail siteConstruction EnquirerLend Lease has started pre-construction work on a major mixed-use scheme for Great Portland Estates at the east end of London's Oxford Street. The 2.3 acre Rathbone Place site was formerly occupied as a sorting office by the Royal Mail Group. Sources …Lend Lease hot favourite for £500m…
EBay accused Wall Street activist Carl Icahn of playing with the truth Wednesday as it defended itself against a fresh assault on the company's directors. "Carl Icahn doesn't let the truth get in the way of a good story," the company said after Icahn repeated charges that eBay board member Marc Andreessen profited to the…
Neighbors: Corning Post Office to be named in honor of Spc. Ryan JayneThe Journal News | LoHud.comThe sacrifice made by U.S. Army Spc. Ryan P. Jayne will never be forgotten if legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gilibrand and U.S. Rep. Tom Reed passes. The legislation proposes to rename the U.S. Post Office at 198…
Man's face slashed in dispute over food stamps cardThe Times-PicayuneA dispute over a food stamps benefit card led to a woman severely slashing a man's face with a broken bottle on a busy Central City street Monday afternoon (Feb. 25), witnesses said. New Orleans police responded to a signal of aggravated battery by … More:…
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Modesto Bee One in 10 Sacramento residents on food stamps; number rising fastSacramento BeeThe number of Sacramento households on food stamps doubled between 2007 and 2012, with about 75 more people added to the program every day, new federal statistics show. The U.S. Congress recently passed $8 billion in cuts to the food stamp …Tina Dupuy:…
FedEx has lost track of the Super Bowl XLVII game jersey of Nate Stupar, a linebacker who is now with the Jaguars, but was on the roster for the 2012 NFC Champion 49ers. More: continued here
The Guardian Is it any wonder they priced it wrong? Huge £5.8bn gulf across Royal Mail…This is MoneyPrivate investors were prevented from fully cashing in on the Royal mail float bonanza by high demand for shares. They were invited to apply for as much as they wanted, but in the end those who applied up…
The rivalry between the U.S. and Canadian men’s hockey teams at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia is looking rather genteel, now, compared to the punches being thrown between eBay Inc. and billionaire investor and notorious rabble-rouser Carl Icahn. More: continued here
EBay Inc. [s; ebay] on Wednesday fired back at activist investor Carl Icahn, who this week attacked the e-commerce giant for what he claimed were "multiple lapses in corporate governance" and "certain material conflicts of interest" on the part of several eBay board members. More: continued here