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• Thomson touts A1 media player as "world's smallest"

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Media Player, Mediaplayer, Mp3 Player, Mp3player, Pmp, Thomson, Widescreen, World S Smallest, World Ssmallest

  Nano? Well, welcome to the Thomson A1, a tiny PMP that the company claims is the "world's smallest," (which of course we recommend you take with multiple grains of salt). Truth be told, it is rather petite, clocking in at just 3-inches and weighing only 87 grams. Somehow, they managed to slap on a 16:9 display and cram 4GB or 8GB capacity into

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• Thomson offers up V888 slider PMP

  Published: August 17, 2007, 8:52 am

  Tags: All In One, Do It All, Pmp, Slider, Thomson, Tms, V888

  Portable Video Although Thomson's V888 isn't apt to make any calls, it sure slides with the best of 'em. This interestingly designed portable media player maximizes screen space by relocating the full gamut of controls beneath the display, and with all that space for buttons, we're delighted to see a control pad layout for playing any

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• UNITED STATES: Valero warns about shrinking refining profits

  Published: October 10, 2007, 11:44 pm

  Tags: Doug Leggate, Valero Energy, Chevron, Conocophillips, Thomson Financial

  Valero Energy Corp., the nation's largest independent oil refiner, said today it expects to report third-quarter earnings far short of Wall Street estimates because the cost of refined products... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• UNITED STATES: Valero warns about shrinking refining profits

  Published: October 10, 2007, 11:44 pm

  Tags: Doug Leggate, Valero Energy, Chevron, Conocophillips, Thomson Financial

  Valero Energy Corp., the nation's largest independent oil refiner, said today it expects to report third-quarter earnings far short of Wall Street estimates because the cost of refined products... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Paulson, Bernanke Say Housing Woes May Last

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Paulson, Bernanke, Say, Housing, Woes, May, Last, Ben Bernanke, Henry M Paulson, Douglas Elmendorf, U S Department Of The Treasury, United States, U S Federal Reserve, The Thomson Corporation, Ed Rombach, Georgetown University Law Center, National Association Of Home Bui

  The immediate sense of crisis that enveloped world financial markets in August has mostly passed. But the troubles surrounding the U.S. housing market are only beginning, the nation's two top economic policymakers said in separate speeches this week.

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• Audiovox buys the remnants of the RCA brand

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:16 am

  Tags: Relics Of The Past, Ce Industry, Rca, Thomson

  agreement to purchase Thomson's RCA-brand A/V business outside Europe and the worldwide rights to the RCA brand on A/V products, excluding TVs and home phones.The agreement follows Audiovox's January acquisition of Thomson's RCA-brand accessories business outside Europe for about $59 million.With the latest announcement, Thomson will

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• Thomson leaves consumer electronics altogether

  Published: October 18, 2007, 10:59 am

  Tags: Exits, Rca, Thomson

  and accessories division), Thomson will no longer have a presence on domestic or foreign retail shelves, and will also be short €30 million ($42.5 million) as a result of yesterday's announcement to shutter its AVA Europe operations. So here's to you, Thomson: we can't honestly say that we ever got into any of your various products, but as

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• Capital One Reports Loss From Closing Mortgage Unit

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Capital, One, Reports, Loss, From, Closing, Mortgage, Unit, Capital One Financial Corporation, Richard Fairbank, Economy Com Inc, Stifel Nicolaus Amp Co Inc, The Thomson Corporation, Christopher Brender, Mclean Virginia, Scott Hoyt

  Capital One Financial of McLean posted its first quarterly loss ever, from the expense of shutting down its mortgage lender, and warned of additional challenges in the credit card and auto finance businesses.

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• Report: Murdoch Lieutenant Will be Made Journal's Publisher

  Published: November 5, 2007, 11:48 am

  Tags: Media, Marcus Brauchli, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal

  trusted lieutenants, Robert Thomson, who is currently the editor of The Times of London. Now, The Guardian says the move is all but a done deal. A source identified as a "senior US media executive" tells The Guardian that he is "90 percent certain" that Mr. Murdoch will install Mr. Thomson as the Journal's publisher next

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• Todd Thomson Attempts to Vanquish an Already-Vanquished Chuck Prince

  Published: November 7, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: White Men With Money, Chuck Prince, Citigroup, Maria Bartiromo, Todd Thomson

  really thought of him. Todd Thomson, the former head of Citi's wealth-management department, who was fired in January after a delicious spate of reports questioning his spending (his extravagant office was commonly referred to as the "Todd Mahal") and his relationship with CNBC's Money Honey Maria Bartiromo, jumps in first. Thomson told Reuters

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• Indonesian shares outlook - Mixed on Wall St drop; miners may gain

  Published: November 8, 2007, 11:56 pm

  Tags: Asian, David, Ferdinandus, Indomitra, Indonesia, Indonesian, Investors, Jakarta, Miners, Money Amp Amp Stuff, Thomson, Unilever

  "Consumer goods producer Unilever Indonesia may advance after the company said read more

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• Singapore`s population rises to record 4.68 million

  Published: November 9, 2007, 2:36 am

  Tags: Financial, Foreigners, Migrants, People, Population, Resident, Seng, Singapore, Statistics, Straits, Thomson, Times, Wong

  "The figure represents a 4.4 percent rise to 4.68 million in June from the year before, including read more

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• Probing the Depth of the Downturn

  Published: November 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Probing, The, Depth, Downturn, Ben Bernanke, Stuart Schweitzer, Cisco Systems Inc, Citigroup Inc, Dow Jones Amp Co Inc, General Motors Corporation, Jp Morgan Chase Amp Co, Moody S Corporation, Morgan Keegan Amp Co Inc, Morgan Stanley, The Home Depot Inc, The Thomson

  NEW YORK -- The gloom is spreading. For weeks, credit worries had weighed on the stock market. Investors fled from financial shares as the nation's giant banks wrote down billions of dollars against losses from the subprime debacle. With the financial shakeout still far from over, fresh anxieties...

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• Indonesian economy seen up 6.4 pct in 2008 on higher investment - World Bank

  Published: November 15, 2007, 5:20 am

  Tags: Asia, Bank, Demand, Domestic, Economy, Exports, Financial, Government, Grow, Growth, Higher, Increased, Indonesia, Indonesian, Interest, Investment, Jakarta, Money Amp Amp Stuff, Percent, Rates, Reforms, Regional, Rise, Semi Annual, Thomson, Vibrant, World

  "The Indonesian economy is expected to grow by 6.4 percent in 2008 from read more

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• Asian currencies mostly down against dollar

  Published: November 18, 2007, 3:25 am

  Tags: Dollar, Hong Kong, Muramatsu, Noonan, Thomson, Tokyo, Analyst, Asian, Commerzbank, Currency, Investors, Japanese, John, Market, Money Amp Amp Stuff, Ryohei, Stood

  "Japanese yen : The yen has hovered around an 18-month high against the dollar in the past week as inv read more

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