Tag Archives: Business

King defeats MPC hawks to hold interest rates at 0.5%

Check the latest NewsBank of England governor Mervyn King has fought off demands from hawks on the monetary policy committee to raise interest rates and was quickly vindicated by the latest es......

BP must be cautious about doing deals with sovereign wealth funds

The future’s bright, the future’s Kuwaiti. Or Libyan. Or maybe Qatari. Or any combination of the above. This is not, you will have guessed, BP’s official line. The stated posit......

GLOBE 2010 Announces Star Speaker Line-up

Business leaders from international companies including Dell, AMEC, Fedex, Barrick Gold and Interface will join NGO directors, government and intergovernmental officials and thousands of delega......

The William James Foundation Seeks Sustainable Start-Ups to Support

Once the business plans have been submitted to the competition, they are reviewed by a pool of more than 350 CEOs, bankers, professors, and mission-driven entrepreneurs. These reviewers allow t......

Kaplan EduNeering and Seventh Generation Introduce Sustainability Institute

Sustainability is a holistic, systems-based learning approach to living well today by employing business practices that enable future generations to live better tomorrow, said Lisa Clune, Presi......

Hong Kong: Chief Secretary for Administration leads Hong Kong Business Delegation to visit Sichuan

The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Henry Tang, will lead a Hong Kong business delegation to visit Chengdu on December 7 to promote exchange between the business and services sectors of ......

Deutsche Bank completes its acquisition of Dresdner Bank’s Global Agency Securities Lending business

Frankfurt am Main, Deutsche Bank AG (XETRA: DBKGn.DE / NYSE: DB) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Dresdner Bank’s Global Agency Securities Lending business from Commerzbank ......

’’Tackling the crisis with a new world economic ethics’’: experts debate at the Novartis Foundation Symposium in Basel, Switzerland

’’Tackling the crisis with a new world economic ethics’’: experts debate at the Novartis Foundation Symposium in Basel, Switzerland * At the Novartis Foundation Symposium, the Global Busine......

Small Business Marketing Teleseminar Reveals a Strategy Promising 25% Growth

(ATLANTA, GA) Independent professionals, coaches, and consultants who are interested in learning a proven approach that has been assisting small-to-mid sized business owners to add 25% in gross......

Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce Seeks to Improve Local Business

In the annual Chamber of Commerce business expo, the Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce works with 7 area Chambers to help bring awareness of business opportunities in the Tampa Bay area a......

TiECON Chennai 2009 attracts record number of entrepreneurs and investors

TiE Chennai’s annual flagship conference and Tamilnadu’s largest conclave for entrepreneurs, TiECON Chennai 2009 was successfully held today at the Chennai Trade Center. This year’s conclave wi......

Transfer of the Epson Imaging Sales Function to the Sony Group

– TOKYO, Japan, Seiko Epson Corporation (Epson) and Sony Corporation (Sony) today announced that as of December 1, the sales function of the small- and medium-sized TFT LCD business (excluding ......

Bloomberg Television News Features Interview with Laserfiche Founder & CEO

During the interview, Lo highlighted Laserfiche as a company that helps organizations “go clean and green and get all that clutter out of your environment.” When he asked if Laserfiche is the “......

DSV Strengthens Channel Islands Presence

DSV Road has set up its own operation in Guernsey to build its growing business in the Channel Islands. Patrick Thompson, manager of DSV’s Channel Island operations, says: “We have seen our vo......

Singapore Builds Strong Meetings Pipeline With New Wins

Singapore’s business events sector continues to forge ahead with a momentum of growth. Bolstered by its strong business fundamentals and initiatives to build a vibrant ecosystem of busines......

Alcatel-Lucent agrees to sell its Fractional Horsepower Motors Activities to Triton

Dunkermotoren, headquartered in Bonndorf ( Germany ), has operations mainly in Germany, the US, and China and is the world’s largest maker of fractional horsepower drives for applications such ......

eYantra steps into B2C business with launch of Foostor.com

eYantra Industries Limited, India’s leader in brand merchandizing and corporate gifting solutions has stepped in to B2C business with launch of its first direct consumer initiative –......

Henley maintains rankings for its Executive MBA and Full Time MBA courses

Henley Business School MBA courses have retained key business school ranking positions in both the Financial Times EMBA Rankings 2009 and Economist Intelligence Unit Full-time MBA Rankings 2009......

British Airways Launches Business Opportunity Grants Across India

British Airways Awards a Year of Free Travel Worth INR 112m to Help Drive Business Growth for Small to Medium Sized Businesses in India November 25, 2009 /India PRwire/ — British Airways ......

IBM Unveils Global Development Centers for Telecom Industry

ARMONK, N.Y. IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of telecommunications development centers to help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) create new business models while improving the ......

I-COM and Business Yorkshire to Repeat Social Media Success

Following the success of I-COM.net and Business North West’s social media experiment, in which the conference exploited a variety of social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, in o......