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Web 2.0: Reuters will launch financial Social Network
Reuters is planning to launch this year a financial network for fund managers, traders and analysts similar to MySpace. The web site will be exclusive to Reuters’ subscriber base of about 70,000. “…People don’t want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the…
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Guatemala: Gigantic 100 meter deep hole opens in the ground
What are you going to do when the ground below you suddenly disappears and a 100 meter deep hole opens up? That just happened in Guatemala City.”…Several houses and at least one lorry have been swallowed by a giant sinkhole in a poor district of Guatemala City. The hole is said to be more than 100m (330ft) deep. Residents said they…
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WSJ: Eighth annual survey of U.S. corporations with the best and worst reputations
Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal released its latest survey about corporate reputations. Microsoft for the first time overtook long time leader Johnson & Johnson as company with the best reputation - due to the positive effects of Bill and Melinda Gates philanthropy. As the WSJ describes…
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CNNMoney: Darwin Award for Businesses
With its great list of “101 Dumbest Moments in Business” CNNMoney provides a good overview on the 2006 “biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers” in businesses. Some companies even managed to get more then one entry on the list. When you read through the pages…
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World Economic Forum announces Technology Pioneers 2007
The World Economic Forum has selected 47 visionary companies as Technology Pioneers 2007. Each of the selected companies is involved in the development of life-changing technology innovation and has potential for long-term impact on business and society…
…Following the list of IT companies awarded for 2007 with a brief summary of their innovations, when, by whom,where they were founded together with the names of the leading investors for each company…
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Microsoft / Novell: Are Windows and Linux becoming buddies?
Yesterday the two CEOs of Microsoft and Novell in a joint press conference told the public that they have agreed on a set of broad business and technical collaborations …to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft(R) products work better together…
The two companies also agreed to provide [...]
PayPal: HP adds PayPal as payment option
You can tell that a new solution has become mainstream when key market players announce publicly that they will use it.
Yesterday worldwide number 1 computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has announced that it now is offering PayPal as a new payment option in their online stores. With the agreement, the HP Home & Home Office Store [...]
E-Bay: Another Record Quarter
While some analysts already believed that sky-rocketing EBay has already reached its top due to growing competition from Google, EBay today posted another record quarter in his history.
Turnover in the 3rd quarter rose by 31% to USD 1,449 Bln and profits rose 10% to USD 280,9 Mln.
Strongest contributor to the increase was PayPal of [...]
