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(Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health) Grand Challenges Canada announces 15 grants valued in total at more than $1.5 million to support bold, out-of-the-box ideas from some of Canada's most creative innovators to improve global health conditions.

Globally, consumers threw away 41.5 million tons of electronics in 2011. Unless something changes, by 2016 we'll be tossing out 93.5 million tons.

Cloud storage vendor Symform netted $2 million in venture funding from new backer Westfield Capital, which joined existing investors OVP Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners to bring total funding for this Series A round to $7.5 million.

A couple are pledging to donate $4.5 million toward the construction of a $30 million basketball practice facility at the University of Connecticut.

(University of Houston) A University of Houston physicist is part of a multi-institution team that has received an $18.5 million NSF-DOE grant to develop new technologies to harness solar energy.

Demand Media released its earnings report for the third quarter. That includes a revenue increase of 25% (ex-TAC up 26% year-over-year) to $81.5 million for the quarter, compared to $65.4 million a year ago.

Engineering and electronic products maker Teledyne Technologies Inc. said Thursday that its board has approved a plan to repurchase up to 2.5 million shares of the company's stock.

Research shows 37.4 million UK adults use Facebook regularly, 15.5 million on Twitter, 7.9 million on LinkedIn, 6.7 million on Flickr.

Partnership will provide sports news and analysis to nearly 5 million app...

Netflix could shed as many as 2.5 million paying customers as a result of its recent move to significantly increase the monthly cost of its DVDs-by-mail rental service.