Rocket Monopoly Approved
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U.S. antitrust authorities yesterday approved a plan by Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. to merge their government rocket businesses, creating a monopoly in a multibillion-dollar market that the Federal Trade Commission acknowledged will probably lead to higher prices and lower quality.
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The rocket plane SpaceShipOne, built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft Corp. co- founder Paul Allen, won the $10 million competition aimed at creating a space tourism
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The company officially takes credit for a supposedly user-created PlayStation website, a day after the Federal Trade Commission announces its intentions to investigate under-the-radar marketing. In Game|Life.
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FTC commissioners have approved a prospective settlement with Sony in the wake of the music company's problematic copy-protection attempts, which included rootkits and phone-home software. Now it's the public's turn to comment on the arrangement.
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Big G gets regulator approval for its pending purchase of DoubleClick.
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Aspirations doomed for another year The sole remaining contender to win a prize for privately-built rocket lander systems exploded yesterday, ending hopes that the prize might be won this year.â¦
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A red, white and blue rocket plane zoomed into space Monday, winning a $10 million prize as the world&#39;s first privately built reusable spacecraft and heralding the future of commercial space travel.
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By Bill Geroux, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 12--WALLOPS ISLAND -- The launch of a 69-foot orbital rocket from a  regional spaceport on the Eastern Shore was scrubbed yesterday because of a  software glitch in a satellite the rocket carries.
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A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today.  &nbsp;  The backers of Canadian Arrow, a rocket entry in the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize competition, watched happily as their crew compartment drifted down into Lake Ontario.  &nbsp;  Today totally proves our Canadian Arrow design, said Geoff Sheerin, leader of the London, Ontario-based Arrows bid for the X Prize. It went really well and everything worked as it should. ...
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The first privately financed manned rocket to fly into space has been named Time magazine&#39;s âInvention of the Year.&#39;&#39;.
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The familiar tokens from the Monopoly board game are getting a modern Â and, some might say, mercenary Â makeover.
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STAR Trek fans will be able to boldly go online to take part in new worldwide multiplayer game. Games company Perpetual Entertainment has secured the exclusive worldwide rights from Viacom Consumer Products
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Hasbro has reportedly served a legal notice to Facebook about a potentially infringing game on its developer platform. Unfortunately for you, it's that game you play all day at the office.
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Penn National Gaming, Inc., and Argosy Gaming Co. say their boards of directors have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which Penn National will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Argosy Gaming for $2.
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The first privately financed manned rocket to fly into space has been named Time magazine&#39;s &quot;Invention of the Year.&quot;.
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The American private rocket SpaceShipOne completed another successful space flight to clinch a Â£5.6 million prize for the first commercial, manned craft to reach sub-orbital space twice in two weeks.
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ST. LOUIS -- It&#39;s a big day for a big check in St. Louis where the team behind a rocket plane called SpaceShipOne has accepted a $10 million prize for advancements in private space travel and tourism.