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...Porsche announced the U-turn late on Wednesday after a series of intense meetings between Wolfgang Porsche and Ferdinand Piech, the patriarchs of the families that control the two iconic German companies. Now, VW and Porsche will enter weeks of intense talks to thrash out the final structure of a merger that will add Porsche as a tenth brand to VW's stable, which already includes Audi, Bentley and Czech manufacturer Skoda, as well as the VW brand. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
After a dramatic three-and-a-half-year battle to take control of much larger Volkswagen, German sports carmaker Porsche has given up the chase and agreed in principle to a merger with its one-time prey...
...Instead, the Obama Administration jumped with both feet into the 140-character Twitterverse on May 1 with a one-sentence post on how Americans can learn about swine flu directly by joining social networks with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "We wanted to use these tools to some end, some effect, some public good," said Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media. (See the best social-networking applications...
...government linked the mutiny to a coup plot it claims to have discovered two months ago, said Utiashvili, the Interior Ministry spokesman. Government officials showed the press a video claiming to show Givi Khvaladze, a former official at the Defense Ministry, outlining plans to seize control of the government with 200 military vehicles, heavy armor and 5,000 Russian soldiers. "Russia will come to our assistance" and will help "liquidate the leaders" of the government, he says in the video, according to Interfax. Khvaladze as well as a handful of other high-ranking officials are under arrest, while others...
...local and international media organizations have been clamoring to get into the combat zone and witness the end of one of the world's longest running conflicts. They have all been denied. The Defense Ministry set up the Media Center for National Security in 2006 specifically to monitor and control coverage of the war, and it has refused to allow journalists into the war zone in northern Sri Lanka since early 2008. That policy has not changed even with the announcement that the end is near. There have been hundreds of news stories written and broadcast about Sri Lanka...