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LATEST World News, Sep 17, 2011


Milestone Systems Number One Globally 7th Year in a Row
Sacramento Bee
IMS Research has revealed in its latest report: The World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment - 2011 Edition, that Milestone Systems maintained its top position of the last seven years. The software development company holds the leadership ...
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MarketWatch top 10 stories Sept. 12 - 16
MarketWatch
The announcements came after big swings for French-bank stocks in recent days amid reports that downgrades were imminent and as investors became increasingly nervous about the banks' funding situation. Please see MarketWatch story on French bank debt ...
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Acxiom Corporation's Executive for Global Public Policy and Privacy, Jennifer ...
Sacramento Bee
She has served as Acxiom's top privacy executive for more than two decades, where she has developed industry-leading policies for responsible information use across global operations, driven internal compliance, and managed government affairs. ...
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Goodbye, Family Fortune
Barron's
At the top of the building was a restaurant called the Gauguin Room. Its menu was Polynesian. It didn't last long. Most real-life horror stories, however, have nothing to do with family intrigue, drug-addicted heiresses or Internet feuds but instead ...
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Tech sector calls for 'startup visa' program
Vancouver Sun
By Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun September 17, 2011 4:04 AM Tweaking Canada's immigration laws would boost the nation's chances of becoming a global hub for hightech business, according to some expert observers. Many nations around the world are jumping ...
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Wu aims for Legendary goals
Variety
"We're not going to try to make pure Chinese movies. We'll try to bring some universal values," he says. The first couple of films will be essentially English-language movieswith international appeal. "This global audience will be fanboys," Wu says, ...
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Variety
Fraport Achieves Further Recognition for its Sustainability Performance
Sacramento Bee
This latest DJSI World listing becomes effective on September 19, 2011. One of the most important sustainability indexes, the DJSI World comprises the top 10 percent of the leading sustainability companies out of the largest 2500 companies in the Dow ...
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Russian Christians enter global sporting arena
Independent Catholic News
Representatives from Christian communities across Russia gathered last week to consider what part they can play in using some of the world's top sporting events to build a greater sense of community across their vast country. Over two hundred Christian ...
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Afternoon Roundup: Today's Top Stories
Motley Fool
Global Alpha held roughly $1.6 billion. People familiar with the hedge fund said it had dropped about 13% in September -- more than most computer-run hedge funds. Read more at Reuters. So there you have it -- the top financial stories for this ...
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CenturyLink and Savvis Earn Spots on 2011 InformationWeek 500 List of Top ...
Sacramento Bee
Nearly 2500 unique clients, including more than 30 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing. CenturyLink is the third largest ...
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Here's Whom Climate Change Will Screw Over the Most
The Atlantic Wire
Anyways, now that we all agree that global warming is real, we can move on to an even more important question: Who's the most screwed by climate change? The pleasantly pastel-colored map of the world above hides a pretty inconvenient truth (if you ...
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TMCnet High Definition Digital Week in Review
TMC Net
And TMC's Jayashree Adkoli wrote that in an effort to develop and deploy a joint multi-screen over-the-top video (OTT), LG Electronics (News - Alert) signed a global strategic partnership agreement with KIT digital, Inc. to leverage KIT's cloud-based ...
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BASE METALS HIGHLIGHTS: Top Stories Of The Day
NASDAQ
SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)--Global copper demand will remain strong in the coming years, underpinned by rising demand from emerging markets, especially China, Rio Tinto US Copper Chief Financial Officer Kay Priestly said Friday.
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Government issues rejoinder to Ansar Abbasi s report
The News International
The international media has run innumerable stories about the corruption and bad reputation of the country s top rulers. Headlines like Cameron should count his fingers after shaking hand with Pakistan s Mr Ten per cent got published in foreign media ...
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This Week in Forest Carbon: Bring on the Confidence
Ecosystem Marketplace
You can receive this summary of global news and views from the world of forest carbon automatically in your inbox by clicking here. 16 September 2011 | This week, we followed up with further analysis on the outlook for Indonesian REDD+ in the light of...
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Ecosystem Marketplace
RIM shares dive, analysts slash price targets on stock
Globe and Mail
These are stories Report on Business is following Friday, Sept. 16. Get the top business storiesthrough the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. Analysts are slashing their price targets on shares of Research In ...
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Lexy Mojo Eyes to address International Fashion Conference in Australia
Vanguard
The international events are organised in collaboration with the Nigerian Embassies in the various countries it has been held. In December 2003, Legendary Gold Limited signed a franchise contract in Paris with the international global television ...
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Freeport McMoRan, Peabody Energy, Joy ...
Sacramento Bee
Due to poor harvests in several important areas of the world last year, most notably due to droughts in Russia, and floods in Pakistan and Australia, agricultural commodity prices have been rising sharply. Given the floods in the Midwest earlier in the ...
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Money politics and political freedom
Business Times - Malaysia
Its better performance on both “corruption and political freedom indicies”, relative to other OIC countries, has made it the 21st most competitive economy/country according to the WorldEconomic Forum's Global Competitive Index in 2011-12!
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Appssavvy Axes Traditional Banner Ads
Mediapost.com
Social advertising start-up appssavvy is the latest to renounce display advertising with the launch of a new ad platform tied to online activities, from sharing content to check-ins to taking polls. Like Facebook, the 3-year-old company is eschewing ...
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AL International's (JCOF) Engages Mayer Hoffman McCann
Sacramento Bee
Together, MHM and CBIZ are one of the Top Ten largest accounting providers in the nation. This release includes forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. In some cases forward-looking statements can be ...
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Grupo PRISA to Host the Paley Center for Media's International Council Summit ...
Sacramento Bee
For more information about the Paley Center's International Council, including live video from the summit, please visit www.paleycenter.org/IC. PRISA is the world's leading Spanish and Portuguese-language media group in the fields of education, ...
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Sunday on Face the Nation: Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney
CBS News
One of the main focuses of the conference will be jobs and the world economy. What would Clinton do to create jobs? what advice he has for the current Democrat in the Oval Office? Are two questions likely to be at the top of Bob's list for the former ...
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Robert Harris puts his mouth where the money is
Telegraph.co.uk
Stags rutting endlessly in order to be the one on top, and while many of the hedge funders were helpful and charming, I couldn't help thinking about CP Snow's Two Cultures and how a huge gulf exists between the world of finance and the rest of us. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Aquino off the US Sunday
Inquirer.net
More than 30 world leaders have been conferred degrees and have their names on the terrace steps. President Aquino will also meet with top business executives belonging to the US-Asean Business Council, the US Chamber of Commerce, ...
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China's Mandarin Mamma Mia!
Financial Times
The eventual goal is to produce Chinese musicals based on Chinese stories to export around the world – and help China replace widgets in the trade balance. Of course it is likely to be a long time before the west is humming tunes from Raise the Red ...
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Financial Times
'Ecumenism of the Martyrs', and remembering Giancarlo Zizola
National Catholic Reporter (blog)
On the one hand, it's among the towering religious success stories of the last century, wiping away old prejudices and building new friendships in the historical blink of an eye. Just ask my 97-year-old grandma out in rural Hill City, Kan., ...
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The (in)visible in Indian terrorism
Aljazeera.net
On the other hand, experts like B Raman allege that IM and SIMI's reach extends beyond South Asia, characterising the groups as a part of a global network of Islamic radicals without furnishing adequate evidence. The media invariably base their stories...
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Aljazeera.net
A U2 documentary that's not pretentious
Salon
During a stopover in New York on her current world tour, Grimaud spoke with Alexis Bloom, who notes that the concert pianist "has battled back from illness to play like a titan." Grimaud also took us to visit her Wolf Conservation Center, ...
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Salon
Clinton declares 'Participation Age' for women
Inquirer.net
APEC, or the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, accounts for more than half ofglobal GDP and includes the world's three largest economies — the United States, China and Japan. The United States chairs APEC this year and will play host to a ...
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Inquirer.net
'Ground Shifters': 'Girls Gauntlets' – children unionizing in Bolivia
WBEZ
But what I didn't realize is that what I saw, and what I've always learned, was not the whole story. On a recent Saturday morning, 16 year-old Ana Guadalupe Perez Rosas was washing dishes. She's a domestic worker, with a system: first the glasses, ...
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WBEZ
Bachmann: It's ok to spread lies about vaccines because I never said I'm a doctor
Salon
She was a truly global figure who became an icon of anti-Communism in the former Soviet Empire and beyond. By comparison, Bachmann and Palin are narrowly patriotic domestic politicians, ignorant of the world beyond America, whose appeal will never ...
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Salon
Latin American Startups: Eight “Gringas” to Watch Out For
The Next Web
Brenna Loury is the Communications Coordinator of Start-Up Chile, the government-supported program which aims at attracting early stage global entrepreneurs to the country and fostering the local startup ecosystem (see one of our recent stories). ...
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The Next Web
Cops at Sea
The Weekly Standard
The show is also a global hit: It regularly ranks among the top dramas in countries ranging from France to Brazil and is translated or subtitled in at least 30 languages in no less than 60 markets. If you aren't one of its millions of viewers, however, ...
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BRAC has positive impact on the Air Force's largest medical wing
Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base
Construction is now underway on a site in front of the current medical campus, for a new $476 million state-of-the art surgical center that includes a, 681000-square foot facility, which will be comprised of four wings, each three stories tall with a ...
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Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base
Global News | Video: Webcam grandparents go viral
Global News' Mike Drolet has the story. ... Video: Webcam grandparents go viral ... learning to use their new webcam have taken the internet world by storm. ...
www.globalnews.ca/grandparents+go+viral/.../story.html
MyVideoRights Takes Money And Changes Name For Global ...
Business on One News Page on Wednesday, 7 September 2011. ... And Changes Name ForGlobal Device Assault - from paidContent:UK: The online video ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../MyVideoRights-Takes-Money-An...
Clinton: al Qaeda behind unconfirmed threat to U.S. - World news ...
Next story in World news Global child deaths plunge by 12000 a day ... "We are meeting here in New York ... with the news last night of a specific, credible but unconfirmed report that al Qaeda again is seeking to ... More top stories ... Video. When will Iran release jailed US hikers? Video. How rap fueled the Arab Spring ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../clinton-al-qaeda-behind-unconfirme...

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