North America

Newsday's coverage

• Seamless, GrubHub cook up plans to combine

  online takeout services Seamless North America and GrubHub announced plans Monday to combine and create a new company covering more than 20,000 restaurants in 500 cities across the United States.Financial terms were not disclosed, and it's unclear what the 5/20/13 Read more »

• North America's natural history

  , the unique marsupials of Australia and extremely cute critters such as China 's pandas get most of the TV attention, North America's wildlife -- except for cable's fascination with alligators and feral hogs -- gets short shrift."I've said this a few times,"   Read more »

• Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar

  20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert   Read more »

• Amtrak unveils locomotives to replace aging fleet

  cages built onto the front end of the train that can absorb impact from a collision. The new models will be the first in North America to use them, in compliance with new federal safety guidelines, Cahill said.The locomotives, called Amtrak Cities Sprinters,   Read more »

• Africa, Asia see boom in priests as Europe withers

  unchanged at 17.5 percent.For years, the Vatican has been battling a drop-off in vocations and baptisms in Europe and North America, while seeing a boom in the developing world. Retired Pope Benedict XVI spent most of his eight-year pontificate trying to revive   Read more »

Around the web

• New programs driving change in Detroit despite financial crisis

  defined by smaller classes and greater attention to science, math and technology. Monday, the president of GM North America, Mark Reuss, unveiled the next step in the evolving partnership. The GM Student Corps will pay 110 students from those seven Metro Detroit 43 m ago from Detroit News Online Read more »

• North America Leads Automated External Defibrillator Market (AED), Says New Research Report at ReportsnReports.com

  defibrillators represent vast opportunities for key players in this market. The geographies covered in this study are North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and Rest of the world (RoW). North America is the largest market for AED, followed by Japan and Europe. 1:02 AM from PRWeb Read more »

• Orange Business Services expands reach of Flexible Computing enterprise cloud infrastructure service

  already operating from its European platform, Flexible Computing is now available from cloud-ready data centers in North America and Asia. Flexible Computing meets the growing demand from multinational corporations (MNCs) for networked cloud infrastructure 12:41 AM from WalletPop Read more »

• Environmental Factors Paper

  is a company that continues to remain at the top of the global business list with superstores across Latin America, Asia and North America. During the past decade the company has made its mark by expanding its concept of the supermarket across the globe. While 12:23 AM from Term Paper Warehouse  Read more »

• Agriculture Safety Day uplifts youths

  Agriculture Safety Day, the program has become the largest rural safety and health education program for children in North America. More than 20,000 young people are injured or killed in farm-related incidents every year. Most of the tragedies could have been 5/20/13 from GoSanAngelo Read more »