4 minutes ago - An agreement binding Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Hewlett-Packard and developers on their platforms will disclose how they use private data before apps are downloaded.

19 minutes ago - Gardai have stepped up patrols in a seaside town after an eastern European criminal gang forced prostitutes to offer their services during daylight hours on the local beach. Related StoriesTwo men found shot dead on farm'Murder-suicide' probe on farm pairFury at child hospital overcrowdingFamilies 'numb' over farm deathsBank donates artworks to taxpayers

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19 minutes ago - Dublin City Council and the construction company Bam are to meet today over the contract row threatening the regeneration of St Michael's Estate.

31 minutes ago - As a market recovery gathers pace and fears over Greece recede, the Dow hit a four-year high and European indices rallied

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34 minutes ago - Several companies are in talks with Canadian scientists on commercializing a new method to produce a crucial medical isotope.

38 minutes ago - Microsoft Corp has asked EU antitrust regulators to intervene in a patent dispute with Google Inc and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

46 minutes ago - The potential takeover of a private higher education college with degree-awarding powers has entered a crucial stage, with education giant Pearson reportedly the front-runner to secure the deal.

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48 minutes ago - Australian PM Julia Gillard has called for a leadership ballot to settle "once and for all" who should lead the Labor party and country.

48 minutes ago - Shares of Polypore International Inc. (PPO) slipped almost 14 percent in extended trading Wednesday after the battery technology company reported earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter below analysts' estimates.

48 minutes ago - Analog semiconductor devices maker Avago Technologies, Ltd. (AVGO) reported Wednesday a profit for the second quarter that increased 5 percent from last year, which was weighed down by a loss on extinguishment of debt.

48 minutes ago - Engineering and construction company Fluor Corp. (FLR) reported Wednesday a 31 percent increase in profit for the fourth quarter, reflecting revenue growth and as the year-ago quarter was weighed down by charges. Earnings per share came in above analysts' expectations, while quarterly revenues missed their estimates. The company also maintained its earnings outlook for the full-year 2012, saying it remains encouraged about future opportunities across its diverse end-markets.

48 minutes ago - Alcohol beverages maker Boston Beer Co. Inc. (SAM) on Wednesday reported a 46 percent increase in profit for the fourth quarter from last year.

48 minutes ago - A European experiment that showed particles moving faster than the speed of light has been exposed as a mistake due to a faulty wire connection.

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50 minutes ago - Banks were the S&P 500's worst performing sector as signs of weak European business activity rekindled economic concerns.

2 minutes ago - A collection of early comic books - including those featuring the debuts of Batman and Superman - is sold for $3.5m (£2.2m) at auction in New York.

3 minutes ago - ?TK Health Minister Leoš Heger (TOP 09) has dismissed Martin Beneš, the head of the State Institute for Drug Control, the country's chief agency for the testing and approval of pharmaceuticals.

3 minutes ago - ?TK An increasing number of Czechs, including business professionals, are getting tattoos, daily Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD) reported yesterday.

3 minutes ago - ?TK The opposition Social Democrats (?SSD) will propose a CZK 15-million spending cap for presidential candidates, party chairman Bohuslav Sobotka said yesterday.

3 minutes ago - ?TK The Interior Ministry is facing problems with drawing EU funds, Czech Interior Minister Jan Kubice (unaffiliated) said yesterday.

3 minutes ago - ?TK The Czech Republic is to host talks of foreign ministers from six former Soviet republics participating in the Eastern Partnership, in an effort to draw EU's attention to the programme, the Foreign Ministry said.

3 minutes ago - ?TK Organisers expect thousands of students to take part in a nationwide protest against the planned university reform to be held next week.

3 minutes ago - ?TK Constitutional Court (US) Chairman Pavel Rychetský has yesterday criticised the implementation law for the direct election of the next president.

3 minutes ago - ?TK News of a treasurer stealing membership fees before the constituent meeting of the European Romany Party (ERS) in Ústí nad Labem, northern Bohemia, in mid-February was a hoax readily accepted by the media, daily Právo reported yesterday.

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14 minutes ago - An FDA panel backed Vivus's Qnexa, which could lead to approval of the first new prescription weight-loss drug in more than a decade.

14 minutes ago - Chinese Internet users are in an uproar after the mayor of Nagoya told a delegation from Nanjing that he doubted Japanese soldiers had committed atrocities during their World War II occupation of the city.

36 minutes ago - A key source of funding for the financial system remains vigilant about bank risk according to a new report by Fitch Ratings

47 minutes ago - The students’ union at University College London has passed a vote of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant, after he was appointed to take charge of the NHS in England under controversial government changes.

47 minutes ago - Proposals by 25 universities and colleges to cut their tuition fees so they can bid for 20,000 cut-price undergraduate places in 2012-13 have been approved by the Office for Fair Access, but it has led to only a small fall in the sector...

47 minutes ago - Hiring spree aims to boost research performance to level of 1994 Group. Jack Grove reports

47 minutes ago - The UK’s higher education and college IT network, JANET, is to benefit from a £31 million boost from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.

47 minutes ago - The government’s higher education reforms have created “unnecessary risk” for universities, the shadow business secretary has said in his first major speech on the sector.

47 minutes ago - Research libraries have reached a “new and improved” deal with the journal publisher Elsevier that ends a four-month stand-off between the two.

47 minutes ago - A survey has revealed that graduates are more likely to support increased tuition fees and a reduction in the number of university places.

47 minutes ago - The senate of Queen Mary, University of London, has become the latest academic body to pass a vote of no confidence in universities and science minister David Willetts.

47 minutes ago - University journalism courses are not responsible for the industry’s ethical failings, such as the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, journalism lecturers have told the Leveson inquiry

47 minutes ago - Welsh universities must merge if they are to be sustainable, the minister for education has reaffirmed.

47 minutes ago - Well over four fifths of students admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge last year were white, statistics show.

47 minutes ago - The University of Hong Kong and the University of Cambridge have struck up a new partnership to recruit engineering students from mainland China.

47 minutes ago - The University of Reading has signed a £230 million deal which will see its entire campus accommodation run by a private company.

47 minutes ago - The winner of a university's Postgraduate Research Image of the Year posed the question: "Is technology the missing piece of the puzzle for cancer?"

47 minutes ago - David Willetts has set out proposals for major multi-national corporations to join forces with a foreign or British university and establish new graduate-only research institutions in the UK.

47 minutes ago - • An Indian postgraduate at Lancaster University was shot dead on 26 December as he made his way to the opening of the sales in Manchester. A 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Anuj Bidve, 23. Police are treating the killing,...

47 minutes ago - University applications by UK students are running 7.6 per cent below last year’s levels, the latest figures show.

47 minutes ago - A researcher from Bournemouth University has published what he describes as a pioneering example of "scholarship in the guise of a film script".

47 minutes ago - Big reductions in teacher training places could see 'infrastructure lost for ever'. Sarah Cunnane reports

47 minutes ago - Scientists and novelists have joined forces to pen dramatic tales of discovery. Matthew Reisz writes

47 minutes ago - US students flock to unmanned-aircraft degrees as civilian market beckons. Jon Marcus reports

47 minutes ago - Links between universities and manufacturing could help make Britain 'great' again. John Morgan writes

47 minutes ago - So, who you gonna believe, a Nobel Lauraete, taking on his election year hack role as a Democrat, or your lying eyes, looking at miles and miles of abandoned manufacturing areas across the midwest and northeast, and shuttered main streets across the country where Wal-Mart, packed with Chinese manufactures monopolizing a good chunk of "personal consumption" in those communities?

47 minutes ago - But Gingreech, he speak to a fahkin issues that concern a Tony fahkin Montana, djou know. He say, "That fahkin cockaroach Castro, I keel him for fun, mang. But if djou elect me a Fahkin President of a Djounited State, I carve Castro up real nice, mang.” Thees a kind of bold talk that America fahkin need, mang.

47 minutes ago - Browsing through some old copies of the late, great Spy magazine, I found this interview with the former spokesman for the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), Joe Powers, in which he declares himself a Libertarian. Here's the article spread,...

47 minutes ago - The wee problem is that this committee looks like yet another bit of theater for the Administration to pretend, yet again, that it is Doing Something, while scoring a twofer by getting Schneiderman, who has been a pretty effective opponent, hobbled.

47 minutes ago - Earlier this week, I got into a little Twitter battle with Matthew Yglesias after the prominent blogger tweeted out “"EXCLUSIVE: The activities of individual business executives have no relationship to the level of economy-wide employment.”