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AlwaysOn Names uSamp to Global 250 Top Private Companies List for 2011
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
uSamp.com), one of the world's fastest growing technology and online survey respondent companies, today announced that it has been named to AlwaysOn's 2011 Global 250 Top Private Companies List. The AlwaysOn Global 250 represents the top emerging ...
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Top 10 Global Building Infrastructure ETFs
TheStreet.com
Given current economic conditions in the developed world, infrastructure projects can be seen as stimulative to economic growth. We're not ranking these ETFs favoring one over another so don't let the listing order mislead you. ...
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TheStreet.com
Phone hacking: How scandal unfolded
CNN
The scandal has exploded in recent months, prompting the closure of News of theWorld, forcing Britain's top policeman to resign, threatening Murdoch's control of his News Corp. global empire, and raising serious questions about Prime Minister David...
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Commodities markets summary
Sydney Morning Herald
Better-than-forecast US July industrial output data and a smaller-than-expected decline in home building last month failed to calm the global economic jitters. Fitch Ratings affirmed the United States' top-notch credit rating at AAA, giving the world's ...
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Investment in Brazil Steams into Fifth Place by Obelisk International News
openPR (press release)
In the latest World Investment Report issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Brazil lies in fifth position in terms of the world's top host economies. Ahead of Brazil in investment are the US, China, Hong Kong and...
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openPR (press release)
Morgan Stanley: 'Mind-Numbing Volatility' Not Over Yet
Fox Business
Most “Top 10” lists are probably best left to late night television hosts. However, in this particular case, we thought we would share 10 of our big-picture observations related to the recent market turmoil: 1) To state the obvious, no one can possibly ...
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Anti-corruption group advises FIFA on reforms
Times of India
"The officials leading world football still give the impression of operating as an "old boy's network". "With only three presidents since 1961 and the current president in his fourth term, FIFA does not match standards for rotation of top positions set ...
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Biggest Yield Swings Post-2009 Fade as RBA to Aid Growth: Australia Credit
Bloomberg
Global uncertainties are being balanced by a record mining investment boom in Australia and “still work in favor of stronger growth and inflation at the top of the target range in the medium term,” said Stephen Roberts, a senior economist at Nomura ...
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GLOBAL: Shanghai rankings reshuffled, Middle East up
University World News
The ninth global ranking from the Center for World-Class Universities places Harvard again at the top. There was some reshuffling among the next three places, with Stanford second (up from third in 2010), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology third ...
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BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Forecasts Global Economic Slowdown But ...
MarketWatch (press release)
It is ranked as the fourth-largest market information group in the world. The BofA Merrill LynchGlobal Research franchise covers over 3200 stocks and 880 credits globally and ranks in the top tier in many external surveys. Most recently, the group was ...
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ASU ranked one of best universities in the world
Arizona State University
According to the Shanghai university, the initial purpose of ARWU was to find the global standing oftop Chinese universities. Since then it has attracted a great deal of attention from universities, governments and public media worldwide. ...
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Ray of light amid the nuclear gloom
The Japan Times
Efforts by China, the world's top polluter, to go green are reaping impressive results, reports Ren21. It was the top producer of hydropower last year and installed the most wind turbines and solar thermal systems. It connected 29 GW of renewable ...
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Pulse Partners with Al Jazeera to Deliver Breaking News and Commentary from ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
“We have readers from all over the world and now we are giving them even more access to the latest breaking news from across the world in a way that is fast and convenient.” Pulse recently surpassed 5 million users across all platforms, and was honored ...
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Emory Vice Provost Named to Council on Foreign Relations
GlobalAtlanta
Emory University's top international affairs educator has been named to the Council on Foreign Relations, an influential policy think tank in Washington. Holli Semetko, vice provost forinternational affairs and the director of the university's Claus ...
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Mirror World: China's Evolving Technology Sector
Current Intelligence
... including Lenovo, Huawei, Haier and ZTE, now global brands. Like Taiwan's HTC, not long ago a white label producer of mobile phones and now among the top ten mobile brands in the world, China's OEMs-turned-retail brands have learned engineering, ...
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Nigerian girl places 4th in global PowerPoint contest
Vanguard
By Emma Elebeke On Tuesday August 2nd, 2011, the name Desiree Chidera Nwadike was announced in far away San Diego, as one of the top four finalists to have excelled at the 2011 Certiport Worldwide Competition that attracted about 228000 participants ...
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What the Current US Political Dysfunction Means to and for Asia
Brookings Institution
Asians know that the United States is the strongest country in the world; their question is how long it will remain so. The American genius has been, not to avoid major domestic errors, but to recover from them relatively quickly and emerge stronger ...
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MEXICO: Pumas stays on top
ESPN (blog)
... who attracted global attention with those two strikes to beat Barcelona two weeks ago. And they'll get another, maybe brighter, star when teen forward Erick Torres returns from the FIFA U-20World Cup, in which he'll lead Mexico against Brazil in a ...
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SC Johnson Honored Among Working Mother's 2011 Best Companies for Kids
PR Newswire (press release)
This ranking is the latest in SC Johnson's legacy as a Great Place to Work. In additional to its accolades from Working Mother, SC Johnson has recently received recognition from DiversityInc, as one of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity®; ...
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How Hip-Hop Changed The World
The Independent (blog)
The major problem with this list format so beloved of Channel 4 is that we actually saw little of how hip-hop as a genre progressed and expanded beyond those 1970s Bronx block parties to change the world and become the massive global industry it is ...
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The Independent (blog)
When Canada Got Downgraded
Investing Daily
Growth in the developed world, constrained by excessive debt and sclerotic political systems, is inadequate. Threats to the continuity of the current European structure could cripple the globaleconomy as well. Meanwhile, emerging markets must continue ...
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MICROS eCommerce Services|TIG Global Expands Relationship with Delta Hotels
PR Newswire (press release)
16, 2011 – MICROS eCommerce Services|TIG Global, a subsidiary of MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS) and leading interactive marketing company for hospitality and travel, continues to expand its growth through its recent partnership with Delta Hotels ...
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Motor Vehicle Engines - Top 10 Global Markets
PR Newswire (press release)
16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: This package contains 10 motor vehicle engine market analyses from the top 10 countries in the world: Brazil, China, France, Germany, ...
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U.S.-Sino Relations Take Center Stage at Prestigious Global Forum
PR Newswire (press release)
21 from 9:45–11:30 am for anyone interested in touring the vessel and seeing how university students, thought leaders and voyagers travel together to learn about and experience our world. The MV Explorer provides an ideal setting for discussing world ...
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Sony Ericsson Nets FIFA 12 on Android
Reuters (press release)
With its global corporate functions in London, Sony Ericsson has sales and marketing operations in all major regions of the world, as well as manufacturing in China, and product development sites in China, Japan, Sweden and Silicon Valley, California. ...
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Top scorers meet surprise package
Fifa.com
The teams have met three times at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in the past, with the honours even so far. The first clash came in 1977 at the inaugural U–20 tournament in Tunisia, and that too was a semi–final, where the Mexicans came out on top courtesy of ...
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Fifa.com
Suntech Appoints Weber Shandwick to Lead Global Corporate Communications Strategy
PR Newswire (press release)
The firm has also won numerous 'best place to work' awards around the world. Weber Shandwick is part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). For more information, visit http://www.webershandwick.com or http://www.webershandwick.asia.
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Nightlife Agenda: DC Beer Week, Estelle and the Rock and Roll Hotel
Washington Post (blog)
The latest edition of dance night devoted to the locally born, slow and stuttery genre that is beginning to go global features many of the genre's biggest names, all of whom will probably be packed into U Street Music Hall's DJ booth for much of the ...
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City consumers remain optimistic
China Daily
The latest index score was the highest since the first half of 2008 and came as consumer confidence around the world dipped on growing concerns about the economic recovery. At 89, global consumer confidence in the second quarter was the worst in six ...
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China Daily
Google-Motorola Deal Spells Trouble for Korean Phone Makers
The Chosun Ilbo
Apple has a formidable position as the leader of the global smartphone industry that encompasses both hardware (iPhones) and software (operating systems). Nokia has now joined hands with Microsoft, the world's top software company, and Motorola has ...
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Mark Martin NCWTS Michigan International Speedway News & Notes
SpeedwayMedia.com (press release)
With operations in more than 80 countries, is one of the world's largest producers and recyclers of lead-acid batteries. The Company's four global business groups — Transportation Americas, Transportation Europe and Rest of World, Industrial Energy ...
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Earth Networks and Europe's Integrated Carbon Observation System ...
The news is the latest from Germantown, Md.-based Earth Networks, which announced in January the launch of the first privately funded greenhouse gas monitoring network. Earth Networks, in close collboration with Scripps Institution ... " After launching our greenhouse gas monitoring initiative in the U.S., we felt it was critical to forge a deep partnership with the ICOS consortium, an organization whose members are among the top climate scientists in the world and bring ...
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You're watching multisource global video analysis from Newsy. This is Newsy Now, and here are your latest headlines. The euro slid from a three week high against the dollar. The slide hits as France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela ... Fox News has more on the arrest. “A SWAT team, half way around the world in Kentucky, arresting Australian citizen Paul Douglas Peters, accused of breaking into Madeline Pulver's home in a wealthy city suburb almost two weeks ago. ...
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Ivanovic makes serene progress in Cincinnati | Pakistan Today ...
By anjum
The Serb needed exactly an hour on court, breaking five times to set up a meeting with the winner of Nadia Petrova v Roberta Vinci. No. 14 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova proved too much for home favourite Jill Craybas, earning a 6-3 6-4 win. The Russian now meets Czech Petra Cetkovska who saw off Anabel Medina Garrigues. The highest seed to advance on Monday was Andrea Petkovic, but it was a struggle for the ... Follow Us. To stay updated with latest news please follow us on ...
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Jamaica leads Caribbean tourism recovery | Rus Tourism News
By Nadezda Basyrova
Graham E. Cooke, President & Founder, World Travel Awards, underlined Jamaica's ability to come good in adversity. He said: “Jamaica has proven one of the tourism stars of the global downturn because of its boundless appetite for reinvention – a spirit exemplified by ... The event partners are Sandals Resorts and WeClickMedia, while media partners include National Geographic Traveller, eTurboNews, Focus on Travel NewsBreaking Travel News, JaxFax and Travel Daily News. ...
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Mirae Asset India Opportunities Fund retains top rating ... - APN News
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by NR INDRAN / INT Mirae Asset India Opportunities Fund (MAIOF), an open ended equity oriented scheme has retained the top ratings across all the four rating. ... Mirae Asset Global Investments (India) Pvt. Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. In just over a decade, Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. has become one of the world's largest investors in emerging market equities@@ managing total assets of over USD 53.9 billion## ...
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News Article | Education Agent Training Course - PIER Online
News and Events >. UQ into the world top 100. 16 Aug 2011. Its 86 ranking also took it to third place among the Australian universities, eclipsing the University of Sydney, which dropped to fourth, with aworld ranking of 96. “I pay tribute to the researchers who have thrust UQ into the top 90 of a globalranking system that is widely viewed as the most research-focused," Queensland's vice-chancellor, Paul Greenfield said. “Research excellence is increasingly a hallmark ...
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World News Brief, Wednesday August 17 | Pundit
By Daily Digest
World News Brief, Wednesday August 17. Germany and France economies slow – is the Eurozone crisis infecting core countries? Merkel and Sarkozy meet to avoid downgrade (+ analysis); Libyan rebels close in on Tripoli; ... Top of the Agenda: German Growth Slows. The German economy--the eurozone's largest--slowed to 0.1 percent in the second quarter of this year, its weakest growth rate (DerSpiegel) since the height of the global financial crisis in the first quarter of 2009. ...
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Mobile Money Global in Dubai shows industry moving into B2B market ...
Mobile money service providers increasingly targetting businesses is one of the exciting new trends in the industry that will be discussed at the upcoming MM Global conference and expo in Dubai from 1-2 November. It is estimated that by 2013, half a billion people worldwide will be using mobile money payment services, including person to person transfers, airtime top up, international remittances and payroll. Article continues below ▼ ...
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Digital Journal commended for hosting public story meetings
Digital Journal, a global digital media network with contributors in 200 countries, held online story meetings throughout July. The live-chat discussions invited reporters, citizen journalists, bloggers and average news consumers into the editorial process to help shape the coverage produced by ... Pulling back the curtain and offering the public a chance to take part in the news-gathering process has earned Digital Journal kudos and praise from people all over the world. ...
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Gold, ETFs best investment medium during ... - China Business News
By CBN
ETFs have become the investment vehicle of choice at times of great market instability, with sizable gains in commodities and fixed income funds fueling a $9 billion rise in assets in July, according to State Street Global Advisors. ... Gold ETFs, including the world's top gold-backed exchange-traded fund, SPDR Gold Trust, allow some investors to use the bullion as an inflation hedge, while others might use it as a safe-haven investment. The price of gold has increased ...
China business news
Stock Market News
While sluggish US economy and sovereign default fears in Europe have unnerved investors in therecent past poor economic growth data from the euro zone today once again put a question mark onglobal economic recovery As a result the US stocks futures are. ... Wal-Mart Stores, the world'slargest retailer, expects its second-quarter profit from ongoing operations will increase between $1.05 and $1.10 a share from 97 cents in the year-earlier period. ...
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Thailand upgraded to Upper Middle Income ... - Thailand Business News
By Boris Sullivan
“These achievements were reflected in the resiliency of the Thai economy to the recent globalfinancial crisis, which now place Thailand in a position of opportunity to pursue stronger ties to both ASEAN and the world,” ...
Thailand business news
Greenback Finds Mild Bids on Renewed Safe ... - American Banking News
By ABMN Staff
Much softer German growth data and a disappointing Merkel-Sarkozy meeting have been the primary drivers of the latest price action with flight to safety trade... ... Meanwhile, we still have the potential for a major cooling down in the Chinese economy which we contend will be the third phase of theglobal market recession which began in 2008. After all is said and done, the actions taken by central banks and governments are indeed necessary, but we feel that the way the ...
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Leaked 'rape' report sparks new Kahn furor - World News - IBNLive
The accusation upended the French presidential race and forced Strauss Kahn to resign as managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Then Diallo was put on the defensive when prosecutors disclosed she had lied about her past, ... The lawyers' latest spat comes one week before Strauss Kahn's next court date on August 23, which has been postponed twice to give prosecutors more time to investigate. Questions about her credibility have forced Manhattan District...
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Seaport Real Estate Continues to Trump Overall U.S. Industrial ...
By Michael Gerrity
Weekly Newsletter & Breaking News Alerts. World Property Channel. Properties, Places & Perspectives | Worldwide. Global Real Estate News Editions. Tuesday, August 16, 2011. GlobalProperty Search · Residential News · Commercial News ... According to Jones Lang LaSalle's third annual Port, Airport and Global Infrastructure (PAGI) report, commercial real estate in the markets surrounding the country's seaports is leading the U.S. industrial real estate recovery. ...
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GE Healthcare to Acquire PAA Laboratories GmbH
The company, which has world-class manufacturing facilities registered with the FDA, has recently implemented one of the world's leading manufacturing facilities for powdered cell culture media to meet the growing demand for these products from the ... For our latest news, please visit http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com. About PAA Laboratories. PAA Laboratories, founded in 1988, specializes in the manufacture and worldwide distribution of cell culture products for research, ...
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 17, 2011 « Stop NATO
By richardrozoff
Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 17, 2011. August 17, 2011 richardrozoff Leave a comment Go to comments. ==== Lockheed, MEADS Unveil European Interceptor Missile Battle Manager. South Korea Builds Supersonic Cruise Missiles To Strike Aircraft Carriers ..... The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which monitors global arms sales, says Germany ranks third among top arms suppliers after the United States and Russia. ...
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Stocks collapse on global slowdown fears | America's Breaking ...
Stocks collapse on global slowdown fears Investors have fled stock markets ... America's BreakingLocal And World News. Breaking News, Local News, World News ... Current News. Jeff Gordon Jeff Burton Fight Video At Texas Motor Speedway ...
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Cheat Sheet - The Daily Beast
The news comes as rebels celebrated entrance into the key city of Zawiya, ... The ISI, Pakistan'stop spy agency, is believed to have been behind the decision , but has denied the .... attacked the United Nations' most recent global climate report, ... Read it at International Business Times. August 14, 2011 8 07 AM ...
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