Companies' monthly financial reports may run fine for years, then crash in February of a leap year when software tries to compare Feb. 29, 2012, to a nonexistent Feb. 29, 2011.
Microsoft confirmed late Feb. 29 that a service outage that affected its Azure cloud computing service was caused by a Leap Year bug.
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The U.S. has said a launch would threaten a Feb. 29 deal to deliver food aid in return for a North Korean nuclear moratorium.
In its analysis, Sageworks found that private companies in the U.S. saw average sales growth of more than 8.5 percent in the three-month period ended Feb. 29.
On Feb. 29, the metal fell when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke did not offer any hints for a third round of quantitative easing (QE3) when speaking before Congress.
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The trip began on Feb. 29 at about 10 p.m.
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Apple received a letter from Congress today, asking CEO Tim Cook to answers questions by Feb. 29 about how its app developers handle the privacy of iPhone users.
Spanning the weekends before and after Feb. 29, the celebration will include an ice hockey game, wine tasting, craft show, concert and carnival, and a parade, party and reception on leap day.
The upheaval in the markets was still in process as the metrics for our 2, 000 were assigned on Feb. 29, so this list, which normally moves glacially, will have surely shifted further.
That's a nice bonus, as long as they avoid problems of Feb. 29, 2008, when United Airlines suffered a systemwide crash of its automated check-in kiosks, forcing passengers to queue up for ticket agents.
The town calls itself the "Leap Year Capital of the World" and expects 100 or more people with Feb. 29 birthdays to attend its quadrennial Leap Year Day celebration, says Jerry Brown, a pastor and store manager there.
Moreover, better economic tidings are putting upward pressure on rates, with the 10-year Treasury rate rising to 2.25% as of March 22, from 1.97% on Feb. 29 and 1.98% at year-end, according to Bloomberg.com and the Federal Reserve.
Last month, U.S. officials said the launch would force it to halt a plan announced on Feb. 29 to provide food assistance to North Korea, which was linked to a promise of a moratorium on weapons tests and other development activities.
That idea was triggered by the lack of any such hints from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a Feb. 29 congressional appearance, a slightly improved Fed assessment of the economy in its last policy statement, and three straight months with rises of more than 200, 000 jobs in U.S. non-farm payrolls.
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Leeson, who turns 29 on Feb. 25, is presumably repeating the same nuggets to Singapore authorities.
The Shockers did spend 10 games ranked in the AP Top 25 this season before a three-game skid from Jan. 29-Feb. 5.
For the Super Bowl, the blocks between West 44th Street and West 34th Street will close from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, 2014, from noon to 11 p.m.
Calling on the judge to deny bail for Mr. Pistorius, 26, the state brought new evidence aimed at contradicting an affidavit from Mr. Pistorius that gives his take on what happened in the early hours of Feb. 14, when his 29-year-old girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was shot and killed while she was in a bathroom at Mr. Pistorius's home.
The Nikkei 225 jumped 29% from mid November to Feb. 1, as the dollar rose 15% against the yen.
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