Create your own free news widgets.

The stricken UK housebuilder reached a refinancing agreement after more than nine months of negotiations just days ahead of a deadline to seek approval from creditors

Four provinces deemed in breach of agreements ordered to pay total of $54.8-million

Agreement extends waiver of certain borrowing conditions until April 21

HP held merger talks with Sun last year, has no plans to return.

The first quarter of 2009 was remarkably, if predictably, quiet where mergers and acquisitions in the tech sector were concerned. While it's still too early to tell if the current run-up in stocks will unfreeze the M&A market, the first sector to see renewed activity may well be in IT...

MLB.com, the official Website of Major League Baseball, is using Adobe's Flash Platform to stream games to viewers. Adobe and MLB.com announced a two-year agreement in November for MLB.com to use Flash to deliver all of its live and on-demand Web video offerings beginning this season, which officially started April 6 for most teams. Adobe Flash Media Server software is the video streaming engine behind the games, enabling fans to view live games from their desktops by taking advantage of Flash technology. MLB.com enables fans to view games through its subscription service, MLB.TV. For the 2008 season, MLB.com used Microsoft's Silverlight to stream games to viewers, but decided to go exclusive with Adobe's Flash beginning with the 2009 season. Microsoft has taken exception to Adobe's claims of ubiquity and also cited many sports events that have been or will be streamed using Silverlight, including the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 2009 NCAA men's basketball tournament, the Masters Gol

NEW YORK, April 7 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- ESPN and Tecate, theMexican cerveza con caracter, announced today a ground-breakingsponsorship agreement that aligns Tecate with ESPN's Spanish and...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 7, 2009) - Midway Gold Corp. ('Midway') (TSX VENTURE:MDW)(NYSE Alternext US:MDW)(NYSE Amex:MDW.A) has filed a 43-101 Technical Report supporting an updated mineral resource estimate for the Spring Valley Project, Nevada. The Inferred mineral resource estimate of 87.75 million tons grading 0.021 ounce per ton (opt) gold for a total of 1,835,615 ounces of gold was reported March 3, 2009. On March 8, 2009, Midway announced that it had signed a definitive agreement with Barrick Gold Exploration Inc. for an exploration agreement and option to joint venture the Spring Valley project.

The Associated Press plans on hunting down unauthorized users of its online content, a move that some reports say could put it on a collision course with Google News. Google and the Associated Press have been in conflict in the past, and worked out previous agreements concerning news dissemination. Neither company has acknowledged any sort of dispute. - Google claimsto not be in the Associated Presss crosshairs over the news agency's edict aboutonline content, thanks to a previous deal struck between the two companies. In an April 6 statement,the Associated Press said it would take measures to protect its news content quot;frommisapprop...

LONDON (Reuters) - The head of the Office of Fair Trading said on Tuesday that customers would suffer if the government failed to prevent the recent mergers of troubled banks from leading to monopolistic behaviour.