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Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (Associated Press) Was it just two old colleagues having a late-night chat or a prelude to more serious business down the road? Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong talked over drinks into the wee hours Thursday night at the Sun Valley resort, as most other attendees of the Allen & Co. gathering of media and technology moguls sauntered off to bed. The tête-à-tête could be nothing more than former Google executives catching up. Sun Valley isn’t all about deal-making, after all. Much of it is just corporate titans schmoozing and kicking back. But the Mayer-Armstrong meeting drew attention, because of the ongoing speculation from analysts that Yahoo and AOL would make a smart pairing. Colin Gillis, an analyst at BCG Partners,  said in May , for example that an AOL purchase would bolster Yahoo’s revenue and expand its audience in areas such as online vi...

Quoting from the site  CNN Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban (CNN)  -- Did your last vacation include a visit to a masterpiece of human creative genius? Or to an area of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance? If so, you may have visited a spot on the UNESCO World Heritage List, perhaps the most prestigious preservation list in the world. The newest sites include Saudi Arabia's Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah; the Erbil Citadel, a fortified settlement in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq; Japan's Tomioka Silk Mill; the Van Nellefabriek (Van Nelle Factory) in the Netherlands; an initial section of the Silk Roads known as the Routes Network of Tian-Shan Corridor (crossing through Kyrgyzstan, China and Kazakhstan); and the ancient West Bank village of Battir. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee is naming cultural and natural treasures to the organization's prestigious  World Heritage List  during its meetings through June 25 in Qatar...