New Surface tablets provide laptop-like typing comfort in tablet form
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Is Microsoft’s Surface a tablet or a laptop? I’m not quite sure, but it is a lot easier to type on than an iPad. The software company unveiled updates to its Surface tablet computers Monday at an event in New York, where I had a short…
Who is Prem Watsa? Can he turnaround BlackBerry’s fortunes?
As soon as Prem Watsa stepped down from Blackberry’s board in August, speculation that he would launch a bid for the troubled smartphone maker started to swirl. Six weeks later, the man some call Canada’s Warren Buffett has delivered, beginning a rescue project he once said could take four or…
India Most Vulnerable To Capital Outflows: Moody’s
Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan, while announcing the mid-quarter monetary policy review last week, said India needs to build a “bullet-proof national balance sheet” to deal with the fallout on the economy from U.S. Fed’s tapering of stimulus that has been only been postponed not done away with. The report…
Sugar futures drop as Indian supplies climb
Indications about growing inventories in India tugged down sugar futures on Monday as the sweetener endured its sharpest losses in nearly one month, according to Bloomberg. Generation of the soft commodity will rise to 25 million metric tons for the 2013-2014 harvest, which trumps July estimates by 5.5 percent, according…