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Friday, December 13, 2013

Microsoft sells more than 2 million Xbox One consoles in 18 days

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By Tom Warren on December 11, 2013 09:11 am @tomwarren

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Microsoft says it has sold more than 2 million Xbox One consoles since its launch 18 days ago. The sales figures average out to around 111,111 units per day, a pace that Microsoft describes as “record-setting.” While the company countered Sony’s 2.1 million PlayStation 4 sales with zombie stats previously, it’s clear both consoles are selling well. “Demand is exceeding supply in our 13 launch markets and Xbox One is sold out at most retailers,” says Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi.

Sony has sold more than 2.1 million PlayStation 4s across the US, Europe, and Australia up to December 1st. While Sony’s console launched a week before the Xbox One, it was limited to the US and Canada for the first 14 days of sales and Sony’s most recent figures only include two days of availability across Europe and Australasia. Comparatively, the PS4 sold more than 2.1 million units in 16 days, while the Xbox One hit 2 million in 18 days. The PS4 is currently sold in 32 countries, and the Xbox One has only launched in 13 markets. While Microsoft is updating its Xbox One sales figures, the company also delivered its first Xbox One system update today, addressing several issues with SmartGlass and notifications, as well as improvements to the dashboard performance and TV features.

Offer 10% of the power of the United States of the Soviet-era nuclear warheads.

Kwame psychology 12/11/2013 9:48 by @kwameopam .

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Past 20 years provides 10 percent of Russia's decommissioned nuclear bomb-grade uranium, United States power. Actually, NPR report , ' nuclear materials worth 20,000 bomb ' is allowed, after the fall of the Soviet Union made deals that American forces need to exploit.

Philip Sewell was a deal, its Deputy Secretary Department of energy acted as intermediaries in the early 1990s. It was his work on finding ways to cooperate with Russia according to Sewell had collapsed as the global superpower. To get rid of the Sewell had to save the buildings abandoned in the countryside surplus nuclear weapons Russia Government saw opportunity. 1993, 500 Tons of nuclear material fuel is, in turn, to the power plant of the United States to be sold will be placed. Matthew Bunn, called the deal one of the biggest diplomatic achievements so far Harvard University Professor.

Warhead material storage facility today, in future years to the power company sold by a final shipment has arrived.

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High operating costs pinch Costco profit

N "> (Reuters)-Costco Wholesale Corp (cost.O) first quarter profits and analysts ' estimates, hurt by a rise in the cost of reported sales fell short.

Carrot's cave in stores ranging from sales, warehouse club operator in the coffin's shares fell about 3 percent before the Bell Wednesday.

"While Costco generally costs, has been cautious on the first quarter sales, general management, management (costs) are higher than we expected," Cowen and co analyst Faye Landes wrote in a note.

Operating expenses rose to $ 24.3 million 5.5%. Selling, General and administrative expenses rose 7.2 percent.

Profit $ 425 million, or 96 cents per share in the first quarter rose to $ 416 million, or over 11/24/95 cents per share a year earlier.

On average, analysts on Thomson Reuters I/B/E/s. the company to earn $ 1.02 per share, according to estimates

Sales increased 5 percent to $ 24.47, but with an average of Analyst estimates of $ 25.35 billion. the company announced quarterly sales last week.

Sales in stores open more than a year, lower gasoline prices and a strong dollar have risen 3 percent, including the impact. Analysts on average expect same-store sales rising 3.54 percent.

Same-store sales excluding fuel and forex, a 5% increase.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT competition-.Same store sales in the United States last month N), the third straight quarterly loss and predicted lower revenue than expected holiday quarter.

Costco, whose members are its large stores and websites, paying up to $ 110 per year to 461 in the United States and Puerto Rico, including 648 warehouse.

It's also Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and other Asian countries.

Shares of the Issaquah, Washington-based company were down 1.4 percent at $ 118.25 before the Bell.

(See Cavle and Siddharth Bangalore; Peters Chris by Supriya Kurane and Saumyadeb Chakrabarty edit)

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Soviet-era nuclear warheads provide 10 percent of US electricity

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By Kwame Opam on December 11, 2013 09:48 am @kwameopam

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For the past 20 years, bomb-grade uranium from Russia's decommissioned nuclear weapons have provided 10 percent of all the electricity the US consumes. That fact, NPR reports, is the result a deal made after the fall of the Soviet Union, which allowed for "20,000 bombs' worth of nuclear material" to be repurposed for American power needs.

The deal was brokered in the early 1990s by Philip Sewell, then-deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Energy. According to Sewell, it was his job to find ways to collaborate with Russia, which had by then crumbled as a global power. The Russian government had been storing their surplus nuclear weapons in abandoned buildings in the countryside, and Sewell saw an opportunity to get rid of them. By 1993, an arrangement was made where 500 tons of nuclear material would be turned into fuel, which in turn would be sold to US power plants. Matthew Bunn, professor at Harvard University, called the deal one of the greatest diplomatic achievements ever.

The final shipment of warhead material arrives at a US storage facility today, to be sold of to power companies in years to come.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Microsoft sells more than 2 million Xbox One consoles in 18 days

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Japan sets aside $1 billion for nuclear fallout storage

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By Vlad Savov on December 11, 2013 09:47 am @vladsavov

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Fukushima reactor control room, suit (Credit: TEPCO)

The total cost of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown may never be known, but the country has at least put a number on how much it anticipates storing the radioactive debris will cost it. Asahi Shimbun reports that the 2014 Japanese budget includes a 100 billion yen provision (roughly $970 million) for the purchase and development of land for "intermediate storage facilities." Once construction and operation costs are also included, the total anticipated expense is calculated to be 1 trillion yen, or just under $10 billion. Though Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the disaster-stricken plant, was expected to handle all decontamination work, its financial struggles have delayed the cleanup and the government is now stepping in with public funds to speed things up.

Construction and operation costs raise the total to 1 trillion yen

There are multiple candidate sites in the area around the Fukushima plant, though the report suggests that local authorities have been understandably reluctant to green-light a project that would deliver up to 28 million cubic meters of radioactive debris into their jurisdiction. The main worry appears to be that the chosen site would turn into a permanent disposal area, as opposed to the 30-year temporary storage facility that the government envisions. In any case, a long-term storage solution needs to be found, with the AFP noting that at the end of August there were already over 130,000 tons of contaminated debris collected, which are presently being stored in ill-suited facilities like waste incineration and sewage treatment plants.

Ukraine does not want to compromise the President: opposition leader

On December 11, 2013, Kiev time Eastern Standard time 8: 46 am

Kiev (Reuters)-President Viktor Yanukovich was interested in compromise, showed up for the protesters in Kiev on Wednesday night said the police action in Ukraine opposition leader Vitali Klitschko.

"Last night, shut down some sort of a compromise path, Yanukovich takes place" with Klitschko told a press conference.

"We had planned talks with Yanukovich. We understand Yanukovich only to talk to people who do not have hope he uses physical force against demonstrators. "

(Pavel Polityuk, Elizabeth Pfeiffer, edited by Timothy heritage can create report)

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Friday, December 13, 2013

Microsoft sells more than 2 million Xbox One consoles in 18 days

Offer 10% of the power of the United States of the Soviet-era nuclear warheads.

High operating costs pinch Costco profit

Soviet-era nuclear warheads provide 10 percent of US electricity

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Microsoft sells more than 2 million Xbox One consoles in 18 days

Japan sets aside $1 billion for nuclear fallout storage

Ukraine does not want to compromise the President: opposition leader