Coins DIG

At an award ceremony held in Bangalore on the November 20, 2009, Deloitte announced the winners of the fastest growing 50 Technology companies in India.

The Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 India program is one that recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in India based on their percentage revenue growth over the past three financial years.

General Motors Co. may shut its Saab unit after Koenigsegg Group AB canceled a planned acquisition of the Swedish company, a person familiar with the matter said.

GM’s board will review the future of the bankrupt unit at a Dec. 1 meeting, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the talks aren’t public. Directors could opt to keep Saab, as they did when deciding earlier this month to cancel a sale of the Opel brand in Germany, the person said.

World health officials say there's some encouraging data on the HIV front -- the number of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS seems to be mostly stable except for Africa.

United Nations experts say the figure -- about 33 million -- has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years. The number comes with a margin of error of several million people.

Last year, HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 72 percent of all 2.7 million new HIV cases worldwide.

Perhaps the word “consumption” means something regarding food to most of us, but India is currently the world leader regarding the consumption or demand for gold. With gold being valued at more than $1,000 per troy ounce at the time this article is being written this has become big business in India, with many medals being rather loosely sold described as being coins.

In a move that will make hundreds of thousands more videos accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired, Google Thursday announced that videos on its YouTube site would sport machine-generated automatic captions.

Google has offered user-generated captioned videos for three years. What makes "auto-caps" different is that Google will now use the speech-recognition algorithms employed in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for all videos.

The Great American Smokeout is being held today and is one day of the year when all people are urged to put down their cigarettes.

The awareness day is held on the third Thursday of November, and is Sponsored by the American Cancer Society.

Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of death in America, thus the Great American Smokeout is the one day when all you smokers should take a good look at your life and decide whether or not you want to continue putting yourself at risk of cancer.

People often visit the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Emmitsburg seeking spiritual healing.

Worshippers pray and light candles at the statue of the Virgin Mary to help along an answer to difficult questions, Grotto director William Tronolone said.

Sometimes they leave gifts.

But even Tronolone said he was surprised when a staff member discovered rare and valuable coins valued at about $40,000 in plastic bags Nov. 9. They had been concealed under a pile of leaves near the shrine's grotto.

The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for jobless insurance was unchanged last week, but the four-week moving average of claims dropped to its lowest in almost a year, according to government data on Thursday that showed the labor market slowly healing.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits were flat at a seasonally adjusted 505,000 in the week ended November 14, the Labor Department said. New claims have been grinding lower in recent weeks, indicating a slowdown in the pace of layoffs.

Gold bullion went through the $1,100 barrier like a warm knife through butter. It is trading firmly in the mid teens after briefly crossing the $1,120 mark. Ho hum, another record price. Silver and platinum have followed along, but in a somewhat lackluster fashion. There is some reasonable belief that when silver came down from the $21 level a year ago March that many bought in the $17 to 18 level and are happy to get out even whenever the metal trades there. Once these weak holders are taken out, many believe silver will jump ahead.

Microsoft has confirmed reports of a security flaw in its Windows operating system that hackers could use to temporarily destabilize Windows 7 PCs. The software giant also acknowledged that blueprints for exploiting the flaw are now available online.