Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

In 2008, effective January 1, 2009, the ADAAA broadened the interpretations and added to the ADA examples of " major life activities " including, but not limited to, " caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working " as well as the operation of several specified " major bodily functions ".

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

On January 13, 2008, the Falcons named former Patriots director of college football scouting Thomas Dimitroff General Manager.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

OnStar transitioned to digital service with the help of data transport technology developed by Airbiquity, but warned customers who could not be upgraded to digital that their service would permanently expire on January 1, 2008.

On January 11, 2008, Talk Is Free Theatre presented the Canadian professional premiere ( in concert ) at the Gryphon Theatre in Barrie, Ontario, with a fundraiser performance on January 13 at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto, Ontario.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

On January 17, 2008, Selig's contract was extended through 2012, after which he planned to retire, but then decided to stay as commissioner until the end of the 2014 season, a move approved by the owners on January 12, 2012, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday.

However, in January 2008, Selig agreed to a three-year contract extension, announcing he planned to retire after the 2012 season.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

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On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

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This eliminated the human reservoir of the disease and reduced hospital admissions to 1 % or less of January 2008 levels.

On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

In January 2008, shortly before plans to retire to Blackpool, Vera's husband Jack found that she had died in her armchair.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

* Ted Nelson: — on Google Tech Talks, 29 January 2007.

In January 2010, a previously unknown letter from Descartes, dated 27 May 1641, was found by the Dutch philosopher Erik-Jan Bos when browsing through Google.

On 28 January 2011, it was discovered that Google was allowing Image Search results to be restricted exclusively to SVG files.

* Transclusion: Fixing Electronic Literature, a talk given by Ted at Google, January 29, 2007

In January 2011 Google announced that Page would replace Schmidt as CEO in April the same year.

On January 12, 2010, Google reported a large cyber attack on its computers and corporate infrastructure that began a month earlier, which included accessing two Gmail accounts and the theft of Google's intellectual property.

In January 2011, Google gifted $ 1 million to the International Mathematical Olympiad organization.

On January 28, 2008, in a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, McGuinness called on governments to compel ISPs to introduce mandatory " three strike " service disconnections to end unauthorized downloading, and specifically accused companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo !, Oracle, and Facebook of building " multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it ", and of being " makers of burglary kits " who have made " a thieves ' charter " to steal money from the music industry.

In January 2010, Google launched the Nexus One smartphone using its Android OS.

* They Brave Death for a Picture: desperate chances taken by the flying camera-men, Popular Science monthly, January 1919, page 18-19, Scanned by Google Books: http :// books. google. com / books? id = HykDAAAAMBAJ & pg = PA18

" In January 2011, Google announced that they were pulling support for H. 264 from their Chrome browser and supporting both Theora and WebM / VP8 to use only open formats.

* Dec 1918 Popular Science World War 1 article about a French engineer using a ground stethoscope to listen for German sappers – Listening to Enemy Sappers, Popular Science monthly, January 1919, page 27, Scanned by Google Books

By January 2007, Google changed their indexing structure so that Google bombs such as " miserable failure " would " typically return commentary, discussions, and articles " about the tactic itself.

* In January 2007, Google announced they altered their search engine algorithm to significantly reduce the effectiveness of the technique.

* In January 2009, a successful Google bomb was performed against the site of the Bulgarian Government by a loose group of bloggers and forum users.

* Engineering Google Results to Make a Point – NY Times, January 22, 2004

As Peter Dinklage accepted his Golden Globe award on January 15th, 2012, he ended his acceptance speech saying he was thinking about Martin Henderson and told the audience to Google the name.

On January 24, 2008, NTT Docomo announced that they made connections with Google.

* Eric Alterman @ Google, January 2011

* January – The Google web search engine originates as " BackRub ", a research project using PageRank by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PhD students at Stanford University, California.

* January 12: Operation Aurora Google publicly reveals that it has been on the receiving end of a " highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google "

In January 2011 and again in January 2012, Greenspun taught an intensive RDBMS / SQL programming course at MIT using Google Docs to coordinate classroom instruction.