1.  On Wednesday evening, with a post to Google, Pike announced that Ritchie had died at his home in New Jersey over the weekend after a long illness, and though the response from hardcore techies was immense, the collective eulogy from the web at large doesn't quite do justice to Ritchie's sweeping influence on the modern world.

2.  In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT which bringing Jobs back to the company he co-founded.

3.  In 1979, the government announced that it was one of our First-Grade State Protection.

4.  On January 7, 2010 Star Inc. announced that it had won a contract from Navy/SPAWAR for a feasibility study of the application of the Electrodynamics Debris Eliminator.

5.  On 24 December 2009, WikiLeaks announced that it was experiencing a shortage of funds and suspended all access to its website except for a form to submit new material.