Last goodbyes ... David Gilmour and Rick Wright from Pink Floyd. Photograph: Andy Paradise/Rex Features Pink Floyd were rejected from this year's Glastonbury festival, it has been confirmed, due to the logistics of major festival programming. And ...

Japan's Okura Hotel Achieves Productivity Gains, Better Forecasting ... - Forbes

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and PARIS, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG, Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) and WINWORKS(TM), a leading Japanese independent software vendor (ISV), today announced that Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba has ...

CSCMP: Germany Taking the Lead in Green Logistics - Forbes

BERLIN, October 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Germany has been the world's leading exporter for the last five years. This distinction underscores the strength of Germany's logistics industry, which is Europe's largest. Its 2007 revenues topped Euro 200 billion ...

Alibaba Group Makes RMB5 Billion Investment in Taobao Taobao Continues ... - CNBC

BEIJING, Oct 08, 2008 /Xinhua-PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Taobao, China's largest consumer e- commerce company, today announced that its parent company, Alibaba Group, will invest RMB5 billion (US$732 million*) over the next five years to further ...

Recorded conversations nearly smoking gun in Sen. Stevens case - Miami Herald

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ted Stevens' friends went out of their way to help pay his bills, according to court testimony Tuesday, even conspiring to cover up how much money they paid for something as minor as plumbing repairs at the senator's home in Alaska ...