Tag: Business
Canada invisible as brands go global
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorDoes it surprise any Canadian that very few can name a product "Made in Canada" Brand?With Global World Markets and Big Money scrambling to purchase items from...
Cannes Less About Films and More About the Glamour
"Partying and celeb-spotting have elbowed aside the movie business at the Cannes Film Festival. Celia Walden reports 'What's 'Le Festival', Mummy?" asked the neat little French boy seated opposite me, as our TGV...
CRTC Orders Bell to Prove Throttling Necessary, H...
In a move that could change the rules for internet providers and the way big corporations like Bell and Rogers' handle their data.The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission announced yesterday it has launched two major reviews of internet technologies,...
McCain's wife sells Sudan Oil related investments
Note from ifindtrends:I just want to notate a couple of things that I found interesting about this story since it's below the fold.Just to be fair, if you look way down at the end, it discloses that other politicians...
Report: GE getting out of appliance business
"General Electric Co. plans to auction off its appliances business, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.GE has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to run an auction for the appliance division, according to the newspaper, which quoted unidentified sources. The sale could...
Five at Guantanamo to face capital charges
After many years, it would appear charges are being brought against alleged planners of the 9/11 attacks. "A Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against reputed 9/11 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men for allegedly conspiring in the...
Egypt: The Great Sphinx of African BPO Outsourcin...
" In July 2007, AT Kearney ranked Egypt 13th in their list of top 50 outsourcing destinations worldwide. This placed Egypt at the top-most position among all African countries featured in the report, an annual compilation by the well-respected research...
Final season for Annika Sorenstam
After 14 years in the LPGA tour, Annika Sorenstam is retiring at the end of the 2008 season. Sorenstam won $22 million over her career and competed against men in the PGA."The 37-year-old Swede said she will...
HP buys EDS for $13.9 billion
Announced this morning, Hewlett Packard is set to buy EDS at a price of $25.00 per share - around 13.9 billion in value. "The terms of the transaction have been unanimously approved by the HP and EDS boards of directors. The transaction is expected to close in the second half...
Donald Trump sees opportunities in the real estat...
Despite the terrible recession that America is currently facing with the real estate crisis, Donald Trump, the CEO of the Trump Organization says that the housing market is going to get better fairly quickly and that...
America is rotting from the inside
Politicians are failing to comprehend the breadth of the US infrastructure crisis. Only disasters move our representatives to act — and in an election year, even those actions seem spotty at best and disingenuous at worst. The United States has much more than failing...
One-Third Admit to Having Hangovers at Work
"The study also found that one in ten employees admitted to having been drunk at their desks, and that the amount of people who'd been drunk at work was much larger in the media and other creative jobs: 41 percent."
India's Reliance ADAG to make Hollywood movies wi...
"India's Mumbai-based Reliance ADA Group of Anil Ambani, net worth US$ 14 billion, is trying to do in Hollywood what Tatas and Mittals did in the UK- taking over established businesses. Its Reliance Big Entertainment...
5 Things Google Really Doesn't Want You to Know
Google can make you or break you and according to their own data, 7 out of 10 are broken. This isn't because Google doesn't work - it does. You'd better believe it, but like anything else, you have to...
Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into high...
For most people there are only two good reasons to ride a bike: (1) It's just plain fun to be outdoors and (2) It's really good for you. Lots of people talk about biking but this year is different - the price of gas...
