Miami-Dade County Public Schools 2012-13 Tentative Budget
On Wednesday, July 18th, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent, Alberto Carvalho spoke about the tentative budget for the 2012-13 school year. First of all, the budget conforms to the...
View ArticleZynga Reports Loss In Second Quarter 2012 (Photos)
Jul 25, 2012 -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq:ZNGA), the world's leading provider of social game services, today announced financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2012.The...
View ArticleMultiplanet System Found Which Is Very Similar to Our Own (Photos)
Researchers at MIT, the University of California at Santa Cruz and other institutions have detected the first exoplanetary system, 10,000 light years away, with regularly aligned orbits similar to...
View ArticleMen's Olympic Tennis Final - It's Time For Crumpets And Tea (Photos)
WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND- Great Britain continues its wonderful year by Andy Murray's deserved win of Olympic Gold medal. At Wimbledon today he pulled off one of the most extraordinary results of the modern...
View ArticleRomney-Ryan ticket 2012, Bye-Bye medicare (Photos)
Republican Presidential Candidate Governor Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan, from Wisconsin, as his running mate this morning. Ryan, the current House Budget Committee Chairman, has become best known...
View ArticleANDY MURRAY MAKES TENNIS HISTORY-WINS U.S. OPEN (Photos)
Andy Murray becomes the first British man to win a Grand Slam since Fred Perry in 1936, and the first Scott to win a Grand Slam. Murray won against Novak Djokovik 7-6, 7-5, 2-6...
View ArticleBritish Car Aiming To Smash 1,000mph Passes Its First Test (Photos)
BLOODHOUND SSC (supersonic car), a car created by the international education initiative BLOODHOUND Project to attempt a 1,000 mph world land speed record, tested the rocket component of the car, on...
View ArticleSpace X Dragon Capsule Arrives At Space Station (Video)
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station plucked a commercial cargo ship from orbit on Wednesday, October 10, 2012. This was a key maneuver in the first U.S. supply run to the orbital outpost...
View ArticleNASA'S Kepler Extended Mission Begins Now (Photos)
NASA's Kepler telescope searches the galaxy for Earth-like planets. Scientists have used Kepler data to identify more than 2,300 planet candidates and confirm to date the presence of 105 new planets...
View ArticleSpaceflyers Scott and Kornienko selected to man Yearlong Space Mission in 2015
NASA, and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and their international partners have selected two veteran spacefarers for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015....
View ArticleTwo new Starbucks Stores a Day for the next four Years (Photos)
The Seattle coffee giant has ambitious growth plans. By 2017, Starbucks plans to open more than 3,000 net new locations in its Americas region. Thousands more will be freshly renovated, executives...
View ArticleFacebook joins Nasdaq 100, Stock boost expected
Facebook stock has seen its share of challenges since the company went public on the Nasdaq in May. But just seven months later, the resurgent stock will get a potentially significant boost, being...
View Article5 Creative super Students place 2nd in VEX Robotics Competition
Mr. Michael Van Dyk's Robotics Team representing Coral Gables High School, in Coral Gables, FL, came in 2nd out of 17 in the first session of the First Annual Miami 305 Consortium VEX...
View ArticleApple to create 3,800 new jobs, bringing back innovation to U.S. (Photos)
Apple's Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, pledged to invest in making Mac computers in the U.S. on December 6, and will probably create about 200 jobs. Apple'...
View ArticleSteven Hawking, CERN win $3 million each for scientific endeavor (Video)
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who made his fortune in Silicon Valley, has showered millions of dollars on prominent physicists through his brainchild, the Fundamental Physics Prize. Stephen...
View ArticleU.S. Treasury to sell the remainder of its GM stock
The government will sell the rest of its GM stock in the next 15 months. General Motors climbed seven percent to $27.15 a share today. Investors like the...
View ArticleUnited Bank of Switzerland (UBS) settles on LIBOR manipulation charges (Photos)
UBS (United Bank of Switzerland) has agreed to pay one and a half billion dollars for rigging the Libor rate. UBS decided to settle in order to put behind it charges of rigging the rate.  ...
View ArticleReasons to look forward to 2013 and to the future (Photos)
The world knows the United States has a strong collection of innovative and competitive companies. To name a few, we have Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon , Boeing and GE. The Great Recession has...
View ArticleDotcom's new Mega website and getting out of copyright infringement (Photos)
Dotcom, creator of Megaupload, has said that data on his new Mega service will be encrypted on the client-side using the AES algorithm. Mega, a file sharing service, does not know the encryption...
View ArticlePrivate capital comes forth against space threats
Friday's meteor landing in Russia's Ural mountains was not supposed to even hit Earth by all media reports. That meteor caused hundreds of injuries, and couldn’t be detected...
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