| NHTSAs new No. 2 has history of tangling with automakers |
May 15th, 2013 |
Washington - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a new No. 2 official who has often sparred with automakers. David Friedman, deputy director of the Clean Vehicles Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, was sworn in as deputy administrator at NHTSA on Wednesday, his boss, David Strickland disclosed at a Senate Commerce hearing. Friedman, who was in attendance at the ...
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| Google+ gains 41 features Auto Awesome photos Hangouts and more |
May 15th, 2013 |
Google+, the tech giant's two-year-old social network, still lags behind Facebook, as well as Twitter and LinkedIn, despite 190 million active users. But the focus at Google's I/O's developer's conference Wednesday wasn't on the size of the social network. Instead, we heard about new photo tools, a redesign, a unified chat service and more.Since Google snagged Nik ...
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| Google+ gets photo auto-filters goes ga-ga for GIFs |
May 15th, 2013 |
Nerds of the Internet rejoice - Google+ Photos now offers a GIF maker. Changes to the Google+ social network -- announced Wednesday at the Google I/O conference at the Moscone Center West here, and launching Wednesday as well -- include a new interface, some new Hangouts features, and most impressively, a series of automatic filters and hashtags for your ...
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| Google+ photos get new tools auto adjusts at IO |
May 15th, 2013 |
(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Google's adding some new firepower to its photo-hosting service on Google+ with features designed to save people time when dumping their photos into the cloud. Key among them is a feature that will automatically back up photos taken on smartphones and send them to Google's cloud storage. The move follows similar efforts from Dropbox, and more recently ...
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| Fitch Rates Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2013-3 |
May 15th, 2013 |
Why Sovereign Rating Actions Have Mixed Impact on Bond Yields Sovereign ratings and sovereign bond yields do not capture identical risks; as a result, rating actionsdo notalways lead to a significant change in bond yields, according to Fitch Ratings.The agency'sratings are a measure of the relative rank ordering of credit (i.e. default) risk, while bond yields reflect a broader mix of ...
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| Chinese labourers seek $60 mn from Japan |
May 15th, 2013 |
An alliance of groups representing labourers who were forced to work for Mitsubishi Materials in Japan during World War II have sought about $60 million as compensation. An executive at Mitsubishi Materials (Shanghai) Corp Tuesday accepted a document requesting compensation of 370 million yuan (about $60 million) for forced labourers used by Japan during World War II, China Daily reported. "The ...
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| A Demo Of “Toyota Collaborator” At Google IO Will Reveal The Potential Of Social Car Shopping |
May 15th, 2013 |
You will have to visit a dealership for a whiff of that intoxicating new car smell, but you can build your dream car, take a few friends on a virtual test drive and even consult with a salesman online through Toyota Collaborator. Toyota and its advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi LA collaborated with Google and employed Joystick Interactive to build the social shopping app being demoed at ...
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| McLaren to get Honda F1 engines |
May 15th, 2013 |
Honda Motor Co. will return to Formula One racing in 2015 as an engine supplier to its former partner, McLaren of Britain, sources said Wednesday. Honda President Takanobu Ito will officially announce the move as early as this week, they said. The company plans to supply new engines with small displacement. Honda withdrew from the F1 grid in 2008 when it faced financial difficulties following ...
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| NTSB Recommends Lowering BAC to .05 |
May 15th, 2013 |
In all 50 states, driving with a blood alcohol content level of .08 or higher, which reflects the percentage of alcohol, by volume, in the blood, means you're legally drunk -- but the National Transportation Safety Board is fighting to lower that number. What's the agency's magic number? It voted to lower the legal BAC level to .05. According to the investigative safety agency, ...
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| Fiat said to mull U.S. headquarters following Chrysler merger |
May 15th, 2013 |
Fiat SpA, Italy's biggest manufacturer, is considering moving its corporate headquarters to the U.S. following a planned merger with Chrysler Group LLC, three people familiar with the matter said. Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne is evaluating the switch from Turin, where Fiat was founded in 1899, to the U.S. as the carmaker's revenue and profit center shifts to North America, ...
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