Though the combination still needs to squeeze past regulators in order to become official, Thomson appears to have, crucially, won the approval of Reuters Group's trustees, who have the power the veto any takeover of the 156-year-old company.

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The new president of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, says she wants to sell the national power company by mid-year.

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Crane said that near the end of this year and into early next year the company will try to ink contracts to sell the power to be produced by the plant with the companies that have expressed interest.

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And just like that, a 155-year old company challenged the establishment and disrupted the power of the elite coterie of editors and retail buyers to deliver the latest style.

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Much like Flickr did earlier this year, Twitter has tapped Aviary to power all of the company's filters and effects.

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Intel previewed its quad-core Tigerton processor way back in October of last year, but the company has just now let all that server-specific power loose on the general populace, with a couple of slightly scaled back versions also thrown in for good measure.

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Enel, Italy's biggest power company, was one of the winners in the epic fight for Endesa, Spain's energy giant, earlier this year.

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