In an immensely strange and interesting incident, it has been revealed recently that a 45-year-old Asian elephant, Win Thida, has bagged a unique record of being the first pachyderm ever in Europe to undergo a surgery for getting contact lens installed in her eyes.

The 2009 International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) trade show in Amsterdam saw Abode Systems introduce its content protection software Abode Flash Access 2.0, which allows creators to control audio-visual content, even subsequent to download, by playing back the protected content securely on a forthcoming edition of Adobe Flash Player software.

Citing improved margins brought about by cost-saving measures, insurance recoveries and legal settlements, the Amsterdam-based conglomerate Philips Electronics NV surprised the market on Monday with its return to profit in the second quarter that ended June 30!

In what appeared to be ‘deliberate attack’ on the Dutch royal family, a high-speeding small black car, racing towards the open bus with the Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family aboard, rammed into the crowd during the Queen’s Day holiday parade being held in Apeldoorn, nearly 90 km from Amsterdam, on Thursday.

According to new research diabetesdoes more than affect your heart, eyes and kidneys; it also increases your riskof getting Alzheimer's disease. While another research indicated that patternsof brain shrinkage seen on MRI scans indicated the development of Alzheimer's.

After having already received €800,000 in the form of seed investment from the HenQ fund as well as private individuals, the characteristic "marketplace for languages" - Myngle - has now secured an almost €1 million bank loan from Rabobank.

With a second successive quarterly loss on the cards for ING Group NV, the company plans to layoff 7,000 employees, and appoint Jan Hommen - the present chairman of the ING board, and the former chief financial officer of Philips Electronics - as its new CEO in the place of the current chief executive Michel Tilmant.

Reporting its fourth-quarter loss, the first one since 2003, Royal Philips Electronics NV announced its decision of laying-off 6,000 employees, on top of the 3,000 employees laid off in the earlier quarter.

CEO Gerard Kleisterlee said that the company also intends halting its 5 billion-euro share buyback program "until further notice."

Amsterdam-based AVG Technologies, an antivirus and Internet security company, Tuesday announced its acquisition of Sana Security, the maker of identity fraud prevention software.