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GBTA Academy Officially Launches at 2011 GBTA Convention
PR Newswire (press release)
23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA)—the voice of the global business travel industry—is pleased to announce the GBTA Academy, a new worldclass educational institution for travel executives. ...
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At the World's Factory, Output Stalls
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In an economy still growing at an annualized rate of 9.1%, widespread businessfailures seem unlikely. But with concerns mounting about the global recovery, thislatest evidence of a sequential slowdown in the world's factory is another troubling data ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
ANDRE FOURIE: World Water Week
Business Day
THE world's water experts gather in Stockholm this week. The dramatic growth in the size and scope of the annual World Water Week gathering demonstrates that the need for access to clean water is increasingly recognised as a global challenge. ...
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Small Businesses Lift-off: American Express OPEN to Launch New Online Travel ...
MarketWatch (press release)
American Express Global Business Travel, a division of American Express Company, is a globalindustry leader in business travel and meetings management committed to helping businesses succeed through cost-effective program management, world-class ...
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NBAD Safest Bank in Middle East
Al-Bawaba
“NBAD has remained and strengthened its position in the league of the safest institutions in the world by virtue of the prudence exercised in the conduct of itsbusiness. During the past few years of the global financial crisis, NBAD remained true to ...
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MWW Group Wins "PR Agency of the Year" in the Stevie Awards' Eighth Annual ...
MarketWatch (press release)
23, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- MWW Group ( www.mww.com ), one of the top ten globalindependent public relations firms, has been named "PR Agency of the Year" by the Stevie Awards, which is among the business world's most coveted honors ...
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Oil Market: Rectifying The Broken Paper Pricing Model
Business Insider
In short, speculators have no business in the oil market, they distort prices, and sure helped slowglobal growth during the past year by running up prices well beyond the fundamentals based upon actual inventory levels of the commodity. ...
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Indian campaigner's fast puts graft back in global spotlight
China Post
Taiwan isn't exactly a model in the global battle against corruption. Malfeasance, nepotism, profiteering, and other unscrupulous business practices in Taiwan are still unfortunately rampant. Corruption has wormed its way into presidential ...
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PGi Welcomes Rob Draughon to Its Board of Directors
MarketWatch (press release)
Mr. Draughon, who resides with his family in Atlanta, graduated from the Fuqua School of Businessat Duke University with a master's in business administration, and he earned a bachelor's in economics from Wake Forest University. About Premiere Global ...
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Where are the world's safest banks?
Forbes
According to a recent Global Finance survey of the World's 50 Safest Bank in 2011, almost half of these banks were European (including a couple in Spain and another couple in Italy); five were US–BNY Mellon (NYSE:BK), JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM,Wells Fargo ...
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Kellogg Company and Alliance Data's Epsilon Business Enter Agreement to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Epsilon has the global reach, real-time capabilities and CRM expertise in the consumer packaged goods industry that makes them the best partner for Kellogg to further increase consumer engagement across all of our brands," said Larry Bruck, ...
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Indian BPO sector sees opportunities in global eco uncertainty
MSN India
"We don''t see any major impact in the near future (because of the economic uncertainty)," Wipro BPO Business Technology Officer Nithya Ramkumar said. India is the world''s largest BPO destination, accounting for over 37 per cent of the total global ...
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Groupon in China: World's fastest-growing company scrambles for a foothold in ...
Crain's Chicago Business
The latest rumor is that GaoPeng has run out of cash in China and is cutting staff in secondary markets and also slashing its advertising budget. Beijing Business Today didn't identify its source regarding the marketing cutbacks, but Mr. Natkin says a ...
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Charles River Announces New Business Alignment
MarketWatch (press release)
Mr. Foster continued, "Drs. Gillett, Molho and Geller have strong scientific backgrounds, proven operating expertise and global experience. Together, they are ideally suited to build a more cohesive, integrated business and enhance our worldwide ...
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Robbies Electrical Powers Better Commerce Through Ariba
MarketWatch (press release)
Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. Ariba combines industry-leading technology with the world's largest web-based trading community to help companies discover, connect and collaborate with a global network ...
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Analyst View, Current Global Forecast - Equity Research on Autodesk, Inc. and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
World Street has featured Adobe Systems Incorporated as a company which offers a range ofbusiness, Web and mobile software and services used by professionals, knowledge workers, developers, marketers, enterprises and consumers for creating, managing, ...
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Aviation Week Expands Events Business in Europe
PR Newswire (press release)
The group also produces major events around the world. Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a leading global financial information and education company that helps professionals and students succeed in the knowledge economy. ...
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GM Puts Media-Buying Account Into Review
Wall Street Journal
Other ad-holding companies that work on GM's media business around the world include Interpublic Group of Cos. and Aegis Group PLC. "We're looking for an innovative model that helps us become more effective in leveraging global marketing opportunities ...
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Markets bounce again but storm clouds gather
The Independent
... Business Editor Better economic news from China was just sufficient to help global stock markets post a second consecutive day of gains yesterday, despite a rise in the oil price and decidedly mixed data from much of the rest of the world. ...
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The paradox of Samsung's rise
TODAYonline
The results have been impressive: By 2004, Samsung Electronics was the world's second most profitable manufacturer, behind Toyota. Since then, even in the wake of the recent global economic crisis, Samsung Electronics' profits have been higher than ...
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Worldwide Spirits Firm Selects Daptiv PPM to Effectively Align IT With ...
Marketwire (press release)
Beam Global has some of the best-known brands in the world, including its flagship brand, Jim Beam® Bourbon. The company's PMO is responsible for a wide variety of projects ranging from IT projects such as SAP rollouts and server refreshes, to business ...
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HP's PC retreat causes supply chain jitters
Financial Times (blog)
Reverberations from HP's announcement that it intends to shed its PC business, the world's biggest by volume, is being felt far and wide across the global IT industry. While no clear buyer has yet emerged, executives in the PC supply chain, ...
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Business schools are a class act
China Daily
"We need to tap into the increasing business education demand for talented people created by China's booming economy," he said. "So we need more people who have extensive academic experience and a global vision, hoping they bring a great deal of...
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China Daily
Office Depot Small Business Index Shows Small Businesses Have Increasingly ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug 23, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Office Depot /quotes/zigman/236952/quotes/nls/odp ODP +2.29% , celebrating 25 years as a leading globalprovider of office supplies and services, today announced the results of its latest Small Business ...
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Daniel Cruise, Vice President Government and Public Affairs, Promoted to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Prior to joining Alcoa, Mr. Cruise was managing director of the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global business advisory group. Mr. Cruise served in the White House during the Clinton Administration as Assistant Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs and ...
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China Surpasses U.S. As World's Biggest PC Market
Wall Street Journal
s PC business in 2005, accounted for 12.2% of global PC shipments in the second quarter, making it No. 3, behind HP and Dell, IDC said. "We remain optimistic that China will continue to grow faster than the world-wide PC market," a Lenovo spokesman ...
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Accenture Completes Acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies
MarketWatch (press release)
Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and businessfunctions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance ...
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New Medtronic CEO gets global
Mass Device
In areas where we do not have dedicated Business Units represented within the geographies we will work with the current IGMs, the Business Unit leaders and the geography leaders to develop a transition plan. More detailed information will be ...
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Research and Markets: NBJ Global Supplement & Nutrition Industry Report 2010
SunHerald.com
... every country in the world by August, is helping to lift sales all over the globe as well, said NBJ Editor Carlotta Mast. Nutrition Business Journal undertakes the research for our Global Supplement & Nutrition Industry Report once every two years. ...
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Libya gives world economy needed break
Reuters Blogs (blog)
For Libyans the fall of Muammar Gaddafi comes about 40 years too late, but from the point of view of the global economy it is not a moment too soon. The apparent end of the reign of Gaddafi, whose whereabouts were unknown on Monday after rebels took ...
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Perfect World's CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
These changes we saw from our recent agreement to sell Perfect World Beijing Pictures Co., Ltd., the entity that operates Perfect World's film business to Beijing Ever Joy Pictures Co., Ltd., which is majority-owned by Michael, ...
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2012 Toyota Camry Global Reveal - Bob Carter
PaddockTalk
Our program is also being seen around the world on the internet recognizing that nearly 15 million Camrys have been sold in more than 100 countries since the car debuted in 1983 here in the US It's hard to believe it's been 28 years since Camry first ...
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Foster Wheeler Awarded EPCm Contract by Engen in South Africa
MarketWatch (press release)
The company employs approximately 12000 talented professionals with specialized expertise dedicated to serving its clients through one of its two primary business groups. The company'sGlobal Engineering and Construction Group designs and constructs ...
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The Speed Traders, the Newest High-Frequency Trading Book, Profiled by iMoney ...
The Open Press (press release)
The article, which was published on Saturday July 23 (http://www.hket.com/eti/imoney/trial/book/20110723/Z), talks about high-frequency trading and its impact in the world financial markets. iMoney, 2011 Business Magazine of the Year (Local) according ...
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Aliens, iPhone 5 and HP TouchPad: A Race for World Domination
International Business Times AU
Even before ET and his friends return, some entities already here on earth are set forworld domination. After Hewlett-Packard announced that it will be giving up the tabletbusiness (notwithstanding that it has yet to recover anything from the $1.2 ...
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International Business Times AU
JWT Wins CTP Biz
mediabistro.com
It took some help, though, as the agency partnered with WPP siblings Mediacom, Hill & Knowlton and The Brand Union to win the non-profit group's business. In a statement, Jim Evans, CEO of the Corporation for Travel Promotion, says, “JWT's global ...
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India-born S&P chief who cut US rating quits
Times of India
The downgrade resulted in turmoil in the world financial markets that is yet to subside. In a statement, Harold McGraw III, the chief executive of McGraw-Hill, who is also the current chairman of the US-India Business Council, said that Sharma was ...
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China's gilded gold market
MarketWatch
Gold imports and exports have been tightly controlled by the People's Bank of China, though new avenues for investment have emerged in recent years. Marcus Grubb, the managing director of investment research and marketing for the World Gold Council ...
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Merck Appoints Richard R. DeLuca Jr. as President, Merck Animal Health
MarketWatch (press release)
"Merck Animal Health, one of the largest and most profitable animal health businesses in the world, is an integral part of Merck. We believe the business is well positioned in a number of fast-growing segments within the global animal health market," ...
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Burson-Marsteller Appoints Sabrina Guttman as Deputy Practice Chair of the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 23, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Burson-Marsteller, a leading global public relations and communications firm, today announced the appointment of Sabrina Guttman as Deputy Practice Chair of the US Technology Practice. ...
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Meridian Bioscience Establishes Direct Sales in Australia Through Bioline ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Richard L. Eberly, Chief Commercial Officer of Meridian Bioscience, Inc., stated, "Combining our Australian business through Bioline/Meridian was a strategic decision toward strengthening ourglobal distribution. Additionally, Bioline and Meridian have ...
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GBTA Foundation Unveils the Strategic Meetings Management Maturity Index
Hospitality Net (press release)
[GBTA Booths: # 1575, i5; StarCite Booth # 1205] About the GBTA Foundation | The GBTA Foundation is the education and research foundation of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world's premier business travel and corporate meetings ...
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Time For The Fed to Change Its Business Model
Seeking Alpha
The global economy became a reality and capital became mobile throughout the world, the gold standard collapsed, and fixed exchange rates gave way to floating exchange rates. The manufacturing economy gave way to the information age. ...
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Ben S. Bernanke: “Unlikely revolutionary”
Washington Post
Though the stock markets reacted positively to the selection, White House officials acknowledged that Bernanke was not an ideal nominee in that he had only worked in academia and did not have experience in the financial or business sectors. ...
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Don't let fiscal brakes stall global recovery – Christine Lagarde ...
By ekow
The current market turmoil, marked by a huge spike in uncertainty, has shaken confidence across the global economy and prompted many to conclude all policy options have been exhausted. That impression is wrong – and could lead to ... It is time to rekindle that, not only to avoid the risk of a double-dip recession, but also to put the world on the path of solid, sustained and balanced growth. The situation today is different from 2008. Then, uncertainty came from the poor ...
Ghana Business News
Primary Global CEO tied to insider case: filing - Recent Business News
By admin
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief executive of expert networking firm Primary Global Research LLC has been implicated in the government's sprawling insider trading probe, court papers show. Unni Narayanan, the chief executive, ...
Recent Business News
U.S. Global Investors Launches iPad, iPhone and Blackberry Mobile ...
“Keeping current on market events is essential for global investors ... slideshows of our research trips around the world, read the latest news, ... To stay current and in reach of their clients, acompany must have a mobile strategy. ...
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Brazil to reassess policy during global economic ... - One News Page
Business on One News Page on Friday, 19 August 2011. ... all fall as investors flee to gilts and gold Global stock markets have resumed ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../Brazil-to-reassess-policy-during-gl...
Fox Business - Latest News - U.S. Stock Futures Extend Global ...
FOX Business: The Power to Prosper. U.S. stock futures followed global markets into the ...Manufacturing in China, one of the world's largest economies, ...
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Global connections benefit entire area, business ... - News-Leader.com
LATEST OPINIONS. Our thanks for your caring. Good news is not hard to find in ... business ties between the Ozarks and the world's second largest economy. ...
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