Foo Fighters, The Cure and Kasabian all to headline at Leeds Festival
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At the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington DC in February, start-ups and research organisations showed off the latest inventions in the multiple paths to cleaner energy.
PolyPlus Technology is developing lithium air and lithium water batteries that promise a big jump in the storage capacity of lithium ion batteries. The company has developed a material that will allow batteries to operate using the dissolved oxygen in water or the air, which its says is key to making energy-dense lithium air batteries viable.
The company’s plan is to start making lithium water batteries for underwater uses, such as robots, in two years. Then it intends to make a lithium air battery one year later, and perhaps three to five years from now, a rechargeable lithium air battery.
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Yahoo has sued Facebook over the alleged infringement of 10 patents, which cover functions from advertising and privacy to instant messaging and social networking itself.
The legal action, which Yahoo threatened just two weeks ago, was launched in a San Jose district court on Monday. The company is not just after royalties — it says it wants the court to completely stop Facebook from using the technology described in the patents.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will soon publish precise definitions of what constitutes insider trading that would make it easier to prosecute and punish illegal traders, the New Century magazine reported on its website, citing sources with knowledge of the situation.
In recent years, China has cracked down on malpractices in the stock market as part of efforts to deepen reform of its capital markets, but the country’s immature legal and judicial systems have made the fight against insider trading a tough one.
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MUSIC mogul Simon Cowell is Britain’s wealthiest celeb, beating David Beckham, Sir Elton John and Adele in the 2011 rich list.
The talent show boss earned a mammoth £57million according to OK! magazine’s official list of the 100 richest celebs.
Most of the 52-year-old’s fortune comes from the rights to worldwide TV phenomenon The X Factor and the Got Talent franchise.
He pipped rockers U2, who made £55m in 2011 as they completed their epic three-year tour.
Sir Elton, 64, and manband Take That both put £40m in their bank vaults with their sell-out shows.
Pop princess Adele, 23, who won six Grammys this week, was the highest earner under 30.
She was followed by fellow young guns Daniel Radcliffe, 21, on £22m and actress Keira Knightley (£12m).
LA Galaxy star David Beckham, 36, was the highest earning sports star, making £28m.
And This Morning’s Eamonn Holmes, 52, topped the TV list with a £2.8m pay cheque.
Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson, 51, was one of a host of stars not on the TV list because his £4.5m gave him a place on the Mega Minted list.
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The social-networking site reports $3.7 billion in revenue for 2011 and $1 billion in profit – 845 million active users. Revenue was up 88% in 2011 after a 154% gain in 2010. For more information CLICK HERE. As you can see, social networking is a wide market with huge profits. Today’s social big players’ structure does not contemplate any kind of income sharing with their regular members even if their membership is the real power behind their success.
We are small (but growing) and we aim to share what our concept will create, in terms of wealth, with every M2E active member. We allow our membership participation in the creation of our new social networking model as we want to give more than a pretty page and some cool communication/sharing gadgets; we want to create a real social phenomena where members are at the top, not just confined in our pages playing silly games and sharing their life for nothing. In this information society every bit of data you publicly share has a value; why not take advantage of this and work with us to get your share? So, if the difference among the models is now clear, just come to visit us at www.me2everyone.com and check if you can help us to grow as you also grow.
Hi all,
After months and months of constant offline working, I am back and with a brand new blog. I have dumped all the junk that was on here before.
There is no theme here. I will just post anything I feel is of interest to me at the time or anything I think you guys may like to see.
Richard