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Oil companies roll back prices of fuel products
Oil companies started rolling down prices of fuel products Saturday. Eastern Petroleum started off on Saturday by slashing P1.50 per liter of its diesel and P1.30 per liter off on its gasoline. Flying V Philippines also lowered its oil prices by P1.30 per liter on unleaded gasoline, P1 on regular gasoline and P1.50 per liter [...]
August 14, 2011
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Tags: business news, Chevron, diesel prices, Flying V, gasoline, oil price, Petron, Philippines, price roll back, Total · Posted in: Announcement, Business News, Consumers, Corporations, Education, finance, money, Philippine business news, Philippines, Pricing, Products, World News
Johnson & Johnson fined by US authorities for bribing doctors
The 5th largest company in the US in terms of market capitalization, Johnson & Johnson, was fined $70 million by the US authorities for bribing doctors in Europe and paying kickbacks for contracts under a UN relief program in Iraq. The US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission said that since 1998, the [...]
April 10, 2011
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Tags: $70 million fine, bribery, Department of Justice, Johnson & Johnson, middle east, Oil for Food Program, Saddam Hussein, SEC · Posted in: finance, Government, International relations, Law, Medicine, money, Pricing, Products, World News
300,000 iPads sold on first day
There were hypes – from the excited to the skeptics. They all translated to a great first-day sale of the iPad. On the first day it was launched to the public, Apple sold 300,000 units of iPad as of midnight on Saturday, April 3. So much for the talks and all those hypotheses about this [...]
April 6, 2010
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Tags: App Store, Apple, first-day sale, iBookstore, iPad, iPhone, tablet computer, Wi-Fi · Posted in: Announcement, Products, Uncategorized, World News
