10 mei 1999 was een maandag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 129e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 27 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zondag 10 mei 2026, 53 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op maandag 10 mei 2027, in 311 dagen. Je hebt 9.915 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 237.966 uur, of ongeveer 14.277.982 minuten, of ongeveer 856.678.920 seconden.
Date: 10 May 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal and Gannett Co's suburban Journal News run advertising drives apparently targeting The New York Times; Dow Jones & Co, Wall Street Journal publisher, denies its billboard across street from New York Times building targets Times; Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr comments; photo (M)
Date: 10 May 1999
By Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli
Deja News to change name to Deja and shift focus from trying to make newsgroups, on-line equivalent of kaffeeklatsches, easier to use to supplying data on people, activities and products; chief executive Tom Phillips sees shift attracting more advertisers; photo (M)
Date: 10 May 1999
By Celia W. Dugger
Celia Dugger
Najam Sethi, prominent Pakistani journalist who has been harshly critical of Government, is seized and detained by Pakistani authorities; is among several arrested, interrogated and harassed during past week; colleagues and New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists say Government is apparently retaliating against editors and writers for giving interviews to BBC about high-level corruption; Government spokesman says Sethi is being interrogated by Pakistani intelligence agents about his alleged links to India's intelligence agency (M)
Date: 11 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Zonagen Inc plunge after company, money-losing biotechnology concern, says it believes Food and Drug Administration will not approve its first product, impotence drug called Vasomax that would complete with Pfizer Inc's Viagra; Zonagen's marketing partner is Schering-Plough Corp (S)
Date: 11 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Calpine Corp purchases 14 geothermal power plants in California from PG&E Corp for $212.8 million, making it largest US supplier of power using steam heat from deep wihtin the earth (S)
Date: 11 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rare Medium Group says Apollo Management LP has agreed to increase its investment to $85 million from $75 million; Apollo will become Rare Medium's largest shareholder, with 25 percent stake (S)
Date: 11 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
YPF SA's board advises shareholders to accept $13.4 billion takeover bid from Repsol SA (S)
Date: 11 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ING Groep NV, Fortis and ASR Verzekeringsgroep NV accept offer of $2.2 billion for Nationale Investeringsbank NV; offer comes from ABP and PGGM, Netherlands' biggest pension funds (S)
Date: 10 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Teleglobe Inc, Canada's largest international long-distance phone company, to spend $5 billion (US) over next five years to increase its network's capacity and reach (S)
Date: 11 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CRH PLC to buy Finland-based construction units from Scancem AB of Sweden for $447 million (US) in cash and assumed debt; company will buy cement maker Finnsementti and concrete producer Lohja Rudus Oy; sale will complete $2.5 billion purchase of Scancem by German cement maker Heidelberger Zement AG (S)
Date: 11 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Carlos Slim Helu, Mexico, acquires 5.3 percent stake in on-line music retailer CDnow Inc; stake is valued at $17.5 million; investment group includes Slim and his family's holding company, Grupo Carso (S)
Date: 11 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Highwoods Properties Inc, real estate investment trust, is selling assets in South Florida and Baltimore in three transactions for $405.4 million; buyers unidentified (S)