Chevrolet has announced a rash of minor tweaks headed the Corvette Stingray’s way for 2015. While the new 650-hp Z06 coupe and convertible soak up the limelight, the Stingray gains a series of functional upgrades like a new eight-speed automatic transmission, while also seeing its paint and wheel options shuffled a bit. Don’t worry, the 455-hp 6.2-liter V-8 and seven-speed manual transmission are still very much standard.
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Judging by the large pour of people at cinemas across the country, most of which are the middle class, and by their increasing disposable income, investors in the entertainment industry are combining resources to build cinemas in areas of high demand. “It takes about N200 million to build a standard cinema, and about N50 million to establish a standard big screen: including rent, rights and technical partnerships” said Harold Igbenusa, a building and project management consultant.
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Chevrolet has announced a rash of minor tweaks headed the Corvette Stingray’s way for 2015. While the new 650-hp Z06 coupe and convertible soak up the limelight, the Stingray gains a series of functional upgrades like a new eight-speed automatic transmission, while also seeing its paint and wheel options shuffled a bit. Don’t worry, the 455-hp 6.2-liter V-8 and seven-speed manual transmission are still very much standard.
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It has been projected that by the year 2032, Africa’s aviation sector would be contributing $168.7 billion to the Continent’s GDP, owing to an increase in socio- economic activities. Nigeria, the continent’s largest economy, is expected to benefit immensely from this, given its population of over 170 million people – the largest within the continent. This regularly provides a huge flow of air traffic and aviation activities, boosting travel and aviation revenue.
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BMW and GoPro are teaming up to bring support for action cameras to the dashboards of the company's latest cars.
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The construction of a pipeline that will carry natural gas from Iran to Iraq will be completed by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2013), says an official. Based on agreements signed between Tehran and Baghdad, 7 million cubic meters (mcm) per day of Iran’s natural gas will be delivered to Iraq in the first phase, Managing Director of Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company Alireza Gharibi said on Sunday.
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The Iranian government is preparing a comprehensive incentive plan on taxes to attract investment and spur economic activities, Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Ali Tayyebnia said on Sunday. Tayyebnia said the Iranian economy is heavily dependent on oil revenues and this accounts for about 70 percent of the national budget in the current Iranian calendar year, the IRNA news agency reported.
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Now that Fujifilm has delivered its first weather-sealed X-mount camera, the pressure's on to produce a line of lenses to match.
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Craving a new stove and oven combo and are willing to spend a cool $3,000 on it? If so Samsung feels its Chef Collection Slide-In Gas Range has what it takes to satisfy.
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A British court has ruled in Batelco’s favour, ordering the Bahraini telecom operator’s former Indian partner to pay it $211.1 million for failing to fulfil a previous agreement, a statement to Manama’s bourse said on Monday. Batelco, via wholly-owned subsidiary BMIC, had sued Siva and its chairman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran for $174.5 million it paid Chennai-based Siva for a 43 per cent stake in Indian operator S Tel in 2009, plus $10.3 million and a further $30,000 a day.
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