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(AP:REYKJAVIK, Iceland) Iceland's central bank on Thursday cut its key lending rate a full point to 10 percent. The seven-day collateral lending rate had peaked at 18 percent in October last year as Iceland's banking system collapsed under the strain of a global credit crisis.
Arnaldur Indriðason's Icelandic mysteries continue to be my favorites. As usual, Indridason delivers a simple mystery with a straightforward solution, but it's the accompanying journey through Iceland's modern social issues that makes his books so interesting.
(RTTNews) - Iceland's wage index rose 0.3% month-on-month in October, at the same pace as in the previous month, the Statistics Iceland said Monday. This is the second consecutive month of growth in the index after it remained flat in August.
Njal (pronounced “nee-ALL) Thorgeirsson was an influential farmer in Iceland who was born about A. D. 930 and died about 1011. Magnus Magnusson, who wrote the book “Vikings!,” on which public television based a series, has called Njal’s Saga “the mightiest of all the classical Iceland sagas.”
In June, Iceland-based CCP Games brought the hammer down on a group of resource hogs that were clogging its data center.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Iceland’s financial regulator has identified at least 13 cases of cross-border banking malpractice that will lead to prosecution in a number of countries, the Financial Supervisory Authority said.
BARRINGTON, ILLINOIS--(Marketwire - Nov. 23, 2009) - EcoloCap Solutions Inc. (OTCBB:ECOS) today announced that its successful Product Event Showcase, held in Seoul, South Korea, attracted numerous participants from around the world. Amongst the attendees were industry representatives from Canada, Germany, Iceland, India, Japan, Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States ...
NEW YORK----The Orchard, a full service media company specializing in the distribution of music and video entertainment, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with TrustNordisk, the largest film sales company of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.
(AP:REYKJAVIK, Iceland) Icelandic research company deCODE genetics Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States on Tuesday to facilitate the sale of its assets, the company announced.
You might say LaTonya Waller is on a winning streak. After earning an R.E.B. Award for Teaching Excellence this month—an honor that comes with a $10,000 reward she’ll use toward a research trip to Hawaii and Iceland—Waller was chosen Thursday night as Richmond Public Schools’ 2010 Teacher of the Year. Waller teaches earth and life sciences at Lucille Brown Middle School, coaches the Mind Games ...
What's the drooping dollar mean for U.S. consumers? More expensive imported goods, the end of the Ambassador Bridge discount and renting "National Lampoon's European Vacation" instead of actually taking one.
Is a data center near the North Pole naughty or nice? With cheap energy, cheap cooling and incentives to spur its ailing economy, Iceland has growing appeal to data-intensive companies running scads of servers.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- deCODE genetics, Inc.
LONDON - November 16, 2009: Northern Lights Energy (NLE), initiator of Iceland's Project 2012 and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EVs) has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company (REVA) to develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland.
In hindsight, I was very naive to think that I had a chance of getting work in the U.S. I moved to Los Angeles from my native Iceland in 2005, along with my wife and our two daughters.
wiedzmin writes "DeCODE Genetics, a genetics research firm from Iceland, has filed for bankruptcy in the US, and Saga Investments, a US venture capital firm, has already put in a bid to buy deCODE’s operations, raising privacy concerns about the fate of customer DNA samples and records. The company hasn’t disclosed how many clients signed up for its service, but provides a number of customer ...
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