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Porvair does multiple acts to expand its portfolio

Porvair purchases Thomas Cain and forges deal with Thermo Electron. Filtration and environmental technology group Porvair Plc have announced last Thursday the acquisition of Thomas Cain Inc.


Season 15 of "Law & Order: SVU" debuts on TV and Twitter fans love it

Fans of "Law & Order: SVU" loved the premier episode of Season 15 and raved about it in Twitter.

Fixing Metro-North Railroad may take three weeks

Commuters who take the Metro-North Railroad train may need to wait for three weeks until the cable failure that disrupted operations yesterday would be fixed.

Icahn to meet Cook on September 30

Carl Icahn had set to meet Tim Cook to discuss the future of Apple. Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn would be meeting Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on September 30 in New York.


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According to information technology news site CNet, Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad customers experienced symptoms of motion sickness because of operating system iOS 7's parallax and zoom features.
In a released statement, Blackberry Ltd said that it would be cancelling its quarterly earnings call and webcast scheduled for Friday this week.
The USPS had proposed to raise the price of its first-class stamp to USD 0.49. The US Postal Service (USPS) has proposed to increase the cost of a first-class stamp by USD 0.
Automattic, Inc, parent company of open source blogging and content management system service WordPress, announced in a blog post that it had acquired content sharing technology startup Cloudup with no financial details disclosed.
TVV Capital's acquisition of Pitonyak Machinery Corp serves to complement an earlier acquisition for the buyout firm.
RidePal gathered USD 3.2 million for its Series A round. San Francisco-based shuttle service provider RidePal announced that it was able to score USD 3.
Ares Capital Corporation announced plan to conduct a public offering of 11 million shares of its common stock.
According to a Techcrunch report, Foundry Group pledged a USD5 million Series A investment to Minneapolis landing pages services startup LeadPages.
According to a Bloomberg report, major shareholders like Twitter co-founder Evan Williams would stand to see a rise in the valuation of their shares in the microblogging service after Twitter's IPO.
JPMorgan Chase & Co are deep in the negotiations to settle the probes conducted at the state and federal levels.