Science news articles about '1 billion dollars'

... despite the endless media commentary and the 1 billion dollars spent on this year's election alone," says Dr. Donald Redelmeier. "We thought efforts ...

US electronics retailer Circuit City said Monday it had filed for bankruptcy protection and obtained a 1.1 billion dollar credit lifeline to battle a sharp decline in sales.

Finnish-German telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) said Wednesday it had won two network deals worth a total of around 880 million euros (1.1 billion dollars) in China.

... that count on corals for habitat and shelter, and the $1 billion dollar tourism industry fueled by coral reefs at significant risk. Conservation biologists ...

... years of painstaking effort at a cost of $1 billion dollars. In addition to the laboriousness of existing techniques, accuracy is compromised, with errors accumulating in proportion ...

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic Corp. said Friday it saw a net loss of 1.1 billion dollars in the year to March 2010, much smaller than the previous year, and expected to return to profit soon.

Thales Alenia Space has won a contract worth 2.1 billion dollars (1.7 billion euros) for a giant programme to build 81 communications satellites for US group Iridium, Iridium said on Wednesday.

... fishers further contributed well over $1 billion dollars to the Gulf economy, according to NOAA. "As with weather forecasts, this prediction uses multiple models to predict ...

US online advertising revenue rose 11.3 percent during the first six months of the year to 12.1 billion dollars to set a half-year record, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) said Tuesday.

... anesthetic will vast," says Novoa of Proteus. "Our initial estimates suggest a market greater than 1 billion dollars." Children's holds a U.S. patent ...