Challenges In The News 04/19/08

Unlocking the intellectual capital trapped inside organizations that deal with enormous amounts of text is a major challenge. To accelerate the development of new semantic business applications tackling this problem, TextWise LLC, a pioneer in semantic application development, today announced the SemanticHacker Innovators' Challenge .

The first ever ScotPLOD will challenge you and your team, on this spectacular endurance walk, to negotiate the 50km route. We have designed a spectacular Tweed Valley route, which will take you through some of the best country the Scottish Border Region has to offer.

The town's next beach-widening effort is on indefinite hold because of a legal challenge environmentalists filed last week, the town announced today.

Food Stamp challengee Cris Neeld got the jump on her challenge week on Sunday. Cris, myself and three other locals — Fran Daniel, Robert Haberle and Dale Jamerson — are eating like we’re on food stamps this week.

Mourne Rambler was produced with a well-executed challenge to get the better of Wheels Up in a duel between the joint-favourites for the two-mile Panoramic Restaurant Novice Hurdle at Naas.

March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd., the private equity group led by British financier Guy Hands , may challenge 3i Group Plc 's 112 million-pound ($223.6 million) bid for Novera Energy Plc , the London-based Times reported.

Players at this year's US Open will have an extra chance to challenge a call during each set of the season's final Grand Slam tournament, the US Tennis Association announced Wednesday.

Republican Sean Parnell, an attorney elected as Alaska's lieutenant governor in 2006, has stunned the state's political establishment by launching a primary challenge to veteran GOP Rep. Don Young.

Time will tell whether voters accept Obama's challenge or whether we remember the speech as a great moment that gave his rivals the means of his political downfall.

The Botanical Society of South Bend has met its $18,000 challenge grant.

After spending $236 million to acquire struggling investment giant Bear Stearns this week, JP Morgan Chase now faces a major technology challenge -- combining the two firms' sprawling storage and server infrastructures.