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NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NewsLook, the video news service, today launches the NewsLook Publisher Suite, a new service that enables publishers to easily create and package video content from NewsLook's collection of more than 70,000 videos from over 70 premium sources, including Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse. NewsLook Publisher Suite gives editors a robust and intuitive toolset for showcasing the best in premium video content on their sites -...
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, is partnering with Drexel University, an institution widely recognized for its focus on experiential learning, to provide an innovative solution to help the university make informed decisions about its productivity and benchmark status, scholarship and performance. Thomson Reuters and Drexel...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online The Boston-based pharmacy at the heart of a growing meningitis outbreak is being sued by the victims who have fallen ill after receiving injectable steroid treatments for back pain. According to Friday reports by Tim McLaughlin of Reuters, patients filed a lawsuit against executives at the New England Compounding Center (NECC), attempting to freeze their assets. Company officials Barry Cadden, Lisa Cadden, and Greg Conigliaro...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Price targets on Google shares were reduced by multiple brokerage firms Friday, one day after the company prematurely released earnings reports that showed that their third-quarter earnings were far below Wall Street expectations. According to a Reuters report, at least seven brokerages cut price targets on the Mountain View, California-based tech giant's stock shares in response to the report, which was released hours ahead of...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections has now been expanded to 15 states after Pennsylvania reported the first case on Monday, according to a Reuters report. At least nine new infections have been linked to the contaminated drug made by the same pharmaceutical responsible for 15 deaths and 205 previous cases of fungal meningitis, now expanding the list to 214. Of the new reported cases, two were...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Amazon is creating movies and TV programming with the data it gathered while climbing to the top of the ranks as the world's largest Internet retailer. The retailer believes its approach will be able to produce more hit movies than the traditional approach of using movie studio big wigs to make the decisions. Amazon Studios, the company's Hollywood studio, has allowed screenwriters and filmmakers to upload scripts to its website...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Samsung sent out an interesting press invite last week, asking members of the media to join them in Germany as they unveiled a “little sensation” which also promised to be “really big.” Rumors began to fly immediately about a possible Galaxy S III Mini, or some other kind of miniaturized Samsung device. According to several reports this morning from Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, Samsung’s president of mobile,...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online As American companies look for more information about their customers, the products they buy and the goods that capture their attention at department stores, more and more of them have started turning to firms located in India, according to various media reports published over the weekend. According to Reuters reporters Harichandan Arakali and Raju Gopalakrishnan, individuals shopping at businesses throughout the United States are...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online A federal task force has arrested 91 people, including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, as part of a widespread Medicare fraud probe, various media outlets reported on Thursday. According to Reuters reporters David Ingram and David Morgan, the accused hail from seven different U.S. cities and allegedly billed the nation's senior-care health program for more than $430 million in false claims. It is the second...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online As voters in the states of Washington, Colorado and Oregon consider whether or not to legalize marijuana use for medical purposes, both supporters and opponents of the proposition are turning to scientific evidence in order to make their case, according to recently published media reports. In Colorado, those opposing legalizing pot point to a study completed last month by researchers at Duke University and King's College London,...
