VANCOUVER - Nevsun Resources Ltd. (TSX:NSU) reported Monday a third-quarter profit of US$ 89.2 million, reversing a year-ago loss of $ 1.3 million when the gold miner had yet to record any revenue from production.Revenues came in at $ 185 million on production of 108,600 ounces of gold at an average realized price per ounce sold of $ … [Read more...]
Lignol Energy Q1 loss widens to $1 million
October 31, 2011 by
VANCOUVER - Biofuel company Lignol Energy Corp. (TSXV:LEC) said Monday its first-quarter loss widened slightly to $ 1 million from a year-earlier $ 900,000, and the research-and-development stage firm has sufficient resources to continue operating until March 2012.The loss amounted to two cents per share, unchanged from the prior-year period. … [Read more...]
B.C. court awards $1 million to abused kids
October 20, 2011 by
VANCOUVER - Six of 11 children born to an abusive couple have been awarded close to $ 1 million over the failure of the B.C. government to protect them from their parents.The children, only identified by their initials, claimed in a B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit that they were subjected to inadequate housing and medical attention, lack of food and … [Read more...]
Google’s Andy Rubin: ‘six million’ Android-based tablets out there
October 19, 2011 by
Google's Andy Rubin kicked off the opening keynote here at the Asian branch of All Things D (that's AsiaD, if you're curious), and he finally cleared up a figure we've been wondering about for eons. During a back-and-forth with Walt Mossberg about the proliferation of the iPad and whether or not Android was "a flop" in the tablet market, he … [Read more...]
Dusseldorf’s Airport Hits 20 Million Traveler Mark
October 7, 2011 by
Dusseldorf International Airport can now boast having more than 20 million passengers, as 1 million people have traveled through every year for the last 5 years. Fodor's Travel News … [Read more...]
Clark commits $15 million to rail and port improvements in Prince Rupert
September 20, 2011 by
As her first announcement for the B.C. Jobs Plan, Premier Christy Clark was in Prince Rupert Monday to pledge $ 15 million to the Road Rail Utility Corridor project to improve trade with Asia. “A bright economic future for British Columbians is linked to opening up Asia-Pacific markets to the rest of Canada,” said Clark in a news release Monday. … [Read more...]
RIM’s Q2 earnings report: $329 million in net income, not enough to fend off critics
September 17, 2011 by
The first quarterly earnings report post-Wake Up Call have just been published for Canada's own Research in Motion, and while the cash is still flowing, investors and analysts alike aren't feeling too rosy about the future. Despite Q2 revenue of $ 4.2 billion and a GAAP net income of $ 329 million, RIM's stock plummeted nine percent following the … [Read more...]
Up to 4 million sockeye expected in run
August 13, 2011 by
The Pacific Salmon Commission predicted two million sockeye, the majority of which are Chilko sockeye, would participate in the Fraser River summer run. (Department of Fisheries and ... Vancouver News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com … [Read more...]
1.6 million voted in B.C.'s HST referendum
August 11, 2011 by
VANCOUVER - More than 1.6 million people voted in British Columbia's referendum over the harmonized sales tax.That return is over half of B.C.'s more than three million registered ... Vancouver News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com … [Read more...]
Instagram hits 150 million uploads in nine months, still won’t talk about Android plans
August 5, 2011 by
For better or worse, Instagram's taken the iOS-capturing world by storm. And if you're wondering what our qualification for "by storm" is, well... let's just say The Biebs blasted out his first image on the service last month. As the story goes, four young lads with a fistful of dollars and boundless imaginations started up the famed app on October … [Read more...]
