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HP to pay $16.25M to settle FCC, DOJ case

Topix - Business News  Thu, 11/11/2010 - 02:28

Hewlett-Packard has agreed to pay $16.25 million to settle allegations that it showered Texas school officials with gifts to win contracts funded by a federal program that pays for Internet connections for schools and libraries.


 

Palin paid $1.25M for book by time she left office

Newsvine - business  Tue, 10/27/2009 - 12:22

Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reported that she has received at least $1.25 million for her hugely anticipated upcoming memoir "Going Rogue."


 

SSPEED Center wins $1.25M for Ike study

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Tue, 06/16/2009 - 22:00

(Rice University) Armed with a new $1.25 million two-year grant from Houston Endowment, researchers at the Rice University-based center for Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters are tackling a big question posed by 2008's Hurricane Ike: What would have happened had the storm not weakened and turned its full fury away from Houston and toward the less populated side of Galveston Bay?


 

Feds: Mass. to get $25M for wind blade test center

Newsvine - business  Tue, 05/12/2009 - 16:26

Massachusetts once boasted some of the fastest clipper ships in the world, and the state is again aiming to be a leader in harnessing the wind.

— this time by hosting the nation's largest wind turbine blade testing facility.