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November 27, 2009
The boom years of the early 21st century were good for many people, but perhaps no one enjoyed them more than Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of ...
November 25, 2009
A French government plan to sell off part of state-owned nuclear power giant Areva (ARVCF.PK) has touched off a political brawl pitting some of the country's biggest ...
November 24, 2009
Booking ski-hire, Broadway tickets or train tickets are just some of the new services being offered to customers up in the sky as airlines seek new ways to beat the ...
November 24, 2009
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis gave U.S. efforts to combat pandemic influenzas a boost with the Nov. 24 opening of the country's first large-scale cell-culture ...
November 23, 2009
Orange and T-Mobile, the UK mobile phone companies, are likely to see their proposed merger sent to Europe for approval to speed it up by six months. Although a final ...
November 23, 2009
Like kids fighting for left-over Halloween candy, the world's largest food companies are battling to take over British chocolate-maker Cadbury (CBRY.L). Kraft (KFT), ...
November 20, 2009
When pirates attacked the chemical freighter MV Theresa VIII, with a South Korean crew of 28, they didn't hesitate. The captain, who fired flares during the attack, ...
November 19, 2009
With its young and relatively affluent population of 73 million people, Turkey has been one of the biggest emerging-market growth stories for the mobile industry in ...
November 18, 2009
General Motors raised union hopes that there could be fewer redundancies at Vauxhall now the U.S. parent company has decided not to sell the historic car marque. ...
November 16, 2009
The weak US dollar has claimed its latest victim. European aerospace and defence giant EADS (EAD.PA) reported a loss of €87 million ($130 million) in the third ...
November 13, 2009
BT (BT) is set to increase its cost-cutting drive by £500m as it revealed profits had sunk almost 50 per cent in the second quarter, yet management was more upbeat ...
November 13, 2009
After more than a year of negotiations, British Airways (BAY.L) and Iberia (IBLA.F), two of Europe's largest airlines, are finally joining forces. Late on Nov. 12 the ...
November 12, 2009
The founder of Ikea, the international Swedish home furnishing chain, is one of the richest men in the world. Yet Ingvar Kamprad is widely considered to be something ...
November 11, 2009
In 1981, two French brothers from Marseille helped redefine the image of blue jeans in American fashion from utilitarian to sexy. After setting up a tiny apparel ...
November 11, 2009
They have accumulated piles of cash so you would think top Indian outsourcing firms such as Infosys Technologies (INFY) and Wipro Ltd (WIT) would go hunting for ...
November 11, 2009
Vodafone (VOD) is preparing to double its cost-cutting drive to £2bn as it battles against the economic slump and fierce competition and looks to hit the acquisition ...
November 10, 2009
When thousands of suppliers, developers, and analysts converged on Stuttgart in September to attend Nokia World, the Finnish company's annual in-house trade fair, the ...
November 10, 2009
Many refer to the man in charge at the corporate headquarters of General Motors (GM), housed in the five glass towers of the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit, as...
November 6, 2009
A massive gray mountain rises from the vast plains of Inner Mongolia. The artificial hill is the pride of the Chinese and the envy of the world—at least the ...
November 2, 2009
On Oct. 15, German engineering giant Siemens made headlines by paying nearly a half-billion dollars for Israel's Solel Solar Systems, a pioneer in solar thermal ...
October 30, 2009
When it comes to climate change—particularly the ongoing efforts to create a scheme to combat global warming by the early-December climate summit in ...
October 30, 2009
North Acton is an unlikely outpost for Hollywood. Yet in a West London business park, in headquarters filled with film memorabilia, Lovefilm is plotting its rise. A ...
October 29, 2009
The world's largest electricals retailer, Best Buy, is to create 8,000 jobs in the UK over the next five years and is gearing up to open its first stores this coming ...
October 28, 2009
With just over 1,000 days to go until the start of the 2012 London Olympics, the team in charge of the Games' tech is poised for the real work to get underway. After a...
October 28, 2009
Corporate IT chiefs don't seem to have gotten the memo that a global rebound is under way. German software maker SAP (SAP), a technology bellwether, disappointed ...
