Chengdu on global top 15 emerging business cities list
China Daily
The Fortune magazine says Chengdu has become increasingly more attractive to the world's top 500 companies. Latest statistics from the Chengdu Municipal Investment Promotion Committee show that by the end of May this year, 193 of the world top 500 ...
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UPDATE 2-FSB backs bank surcharge, imposing bondholder loss
Reuters
By Daniel Flynn and Leigh Thomas PARIS, July 18 (Reuters) - The world's top banks will face a surcharge to keep them safe and only top-quality capital can be used, a global regulatory task force said on Monday. A separate measure to wind up banks ...
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MNCs focus on senior Indian professionals for top global roles
Economic Times
Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, is also betting on Indian talent (as it is on business in the country itself) for its global recovery in market share. With this is mind, it has rolled out a series of restructuring measures. ...
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After World Cup, still a long way to go
ESPN
And a little more than a year from now, the best female athletes from around the world will appear on the biggest global stage of all when the 2012 Summer Olympics get under way in London. Clearly, there are many positives to report. ...
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Ortsbo's Live & Global Platform Launches Commercial Release for Windows Azure ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Ortsbo's Top 10 user countries have a combined population of over 3.4 Billion people. International rock legend, accomplished global entrepreneur and one of the world's most recognized personalities, Gene Simmons has endorsed Ortsbo.com, having signed ...
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The Pacific is Canada's future
Vancouver Sun
By Jack Austin, Special to The Vancouver Sun July 18, 2011 6:13 PM Asia has become the world's top investor in new infrastructure and Asian businesses are becoming more aggressive about investment in world resources. It's time that our provinces got ...
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UPDATE 1-SMIC's management woes add fuel to fire amid sector slowdown
Reuters
HK) (SMI.N), the world's No. 4 global contract chip maker, lost a tenth of their value on Monday amid worries over its management shakeup, a foundry sector slowdown and delays in technology upgrades. China's chipmakers, including SMIC and Grace ...
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Top-Tier Law Firm Minter Ellison Selects Cisco to Deliver "One Firm ...
MarketWatch (press release)
As one-on-one interactions between staff and clients are key in professional services firms, implementing the latest in social networking (supported by business-grade security and policies) is important in retaining and recruiting the best and the ...
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Murdochs, Brooks face questioning by lawmakers
Albany Times Union
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. struggled but failed to contain a UK crisis undermining his global media empire. (STR / AP) Tom Mockridge, the newly appointed CEO of News International is being driven from the headquarters of the company in London, Friday, ...
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Will the debt crisis spell the 'end of euro as we know it?'
Globe and Mail
Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. Given global developments - actually, lack thereof - you'd be tempted to think the World Series of Poker is being played in Washington and ...
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RBA's new normal on interest rates
Sydney Morning Herald
The view is different from the top of the Reserve Bank headquarters in Sydney's Martin Place. While most of us can't see past the thicket of headlines trumpeting the latest possible disaster or hear ourselves above the political screaming match and the ...
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Report: Top swimmers blocked in China
FOXSports.com
It is understood many of the Australian swimmers will opt to not use the sites as the only way for them to tap into their accounts is via their home mobile networks, which could cost hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of dollars in global roaming fees. ...
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Get Yourself A Global Strategy
Fast Company
This can be a qualitative statement such as "Be the number 1 player in mobile gaming in the top 5 world markets by 2014", or a quantitative target such as "Generate 50% of our revenue from outside the US by 2016"--or a combination of both. ...
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Can Harry Potter Charm His Way to a Best Picture Nomination?
Reuters
By Steve Pond at TheWrap "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" has gone where no movie has ever gone before, setting box-office records both in the United States and around the world. But can it go where no Potter film has gone before at the ...
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New Global Model of Alzheimer's Risk Suggests a 25 Percent Reduction in ...
PR Newswire (press release)
In fact, Alzheimer's is the only cause of death among the top 10 in the United States that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed. The World Alzheimer Report 2010 by Alzheimer's Disease International says that dementia is significantly affecting ...
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Seven realizations from the World Cup
ESPN
Here are seven realizations that have been indelibly etched into my sporting consciousness: Joern Pollex/Getty Images Homare Sawa, who finished as the tournament's top goal scorer, celebrates winning the World Cup with Japan coach Norio Sasaki. ...
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World Bank chief slams US leadership on Doha round
Economic Times
The former top US trade negotiator under President George W. Bush says Washington is still the best candidate to lead an effort to close the 10-year-old round of talks meant to add billions to the global economy. Zoellick told a meeting in Geneva on ...
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IBM Earnings Rise, Top Estimate; Boosts Outlook
RTT News
The company's global technology services group reported second quarter revenue of $10.2 billion, up 10.9% from a year earlier. Global business services group's revenue rose 8.5% to $4.9 billion in the second quarter. IBM is the world's biggest computer ...
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Hacking whistleblower found dead in home
TVNZ
The affair has prompted Murdoch to shut down the 168-year-old News of the World, Britain's top-selling Sunday paper, and to drop a bid for highly profitable BSkyB that was a key part of News Corp's global expansion in television. ...
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Foreign Kick for Toy Sales
Wall Street Journal
Both have increasingly enjoyed the tonic of the weak dollar, which has contributed several percentage points to recent top line growth. But just as those benefits have been outsized, the negative effects could present challenges if the dollar were ...
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The Creators Project Returns to NY to Throw Colossal Cultural Extravaganza
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Jul 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --Original Studio works include the world premiere of Karen O's psycho-opera at St. Ann's Warehouse The Creators Project, a global cultural and technology initiative by Vice and Intel Corporation, ...
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European shares fall on banks, euro zone debt worries
Reuters
By Joanne Frearson LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - European shares fell on Monday to a four-month closing low, led by banks on worries this week's euro zone meeting would fail to agree a second bailout package for Greece and concerns that the latest bank ...
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Yanks Steinriede and Smith tops at Roxy Pro Biarritz
Global Surf News
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 18 July, 2011 : - - Huntington Beach -- The first stop of the 2011 ASP Women's World Longboard Tour saw a dominant performance by the Californian contingent with Lindsay Steinriede (Dana Point), CA), 28, ...
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Aguila American Gold Limited (V.AGL) Reports: Growing Global Confidence in the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A recent Thompson Reuters report released on June 8th, 2011 cited comments from top economic advisors of the president-elect Humala reiterating assurances to soundly manage one of the world's fastest-growing emerging market economies. ...
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What next?
BBC News
The damage to Rupert Murdoch's multi-billion-dollar global media empire, News Corp, has already become much more extensive than most would have imagined only two weeks ago. The News of the World (NoW) - the UK's most read newspaper - has been shut down ...
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The price of gold: as influential as a global power
MinnPost.com (blog)
Experts believe that, if all the opportunities to salvage and recycle gold were exploited, natural resource-poor Japan would be among the world's top five gold-producing nations. In 1511, King Ferdinand of Spain famously declared, "Get gold, ...
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Mulberry Is World's Top-Performing Fashion Retailer
FashionEtc
With stocks gaining 24-fold over the past two years, the label emerges as the top gainer in the FTSE AIM All-Share Index of 805 British stocks, while overseas revenue doubled to £40.5 million (around $65.1 million US) for the year ending March 31. ...
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SE Asia Stocks-Jakarta, Manila at record high; debt woes cut volumes
Reuters
John Teja, director at Ciptadana Securities in Jakarta, said he expects consumer-related stocks to continue to boost the index despite global worries about possible debt defaults in the United States and Europe. In the Philippines, top property ...
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PRESS DIGEST - Thai newspapers - July 19
Reuters
Mitr Phol Sugar Corp, the world's fifth-largest sugar producer, will spend 9 billion baht next year on a new mill in Loei and expansion of its Kalasin mill as the group increases its output on the back of strong global prices. ...
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