China's industrial output and investment growth cooled in November while retail sales unexpectedly picked up, presenting a mixed growth picture. The output from industrial enterprises with annual sales of more than 20 million yuan ($3.29 ...
Tags: economy, industrial output, Retail sales
IDC has released its predictions for the IT industry in 2014, and said it believes that Middle East spending will exceed $32 billion in the coming year. It predicts that the region will make a 7.3 percent year-on-year growth, one of the ...
Tags: It Predictions, Computer
The price of bitcoins may be soaring, but China isn’t too thrilled with the virtual currency. On Thursday, it moved to regulate use of bitcoins, stating that its financial institutions could not deal in the virtual currency. ...
Tags: bitcoins, usage, investment
Recently, on the Wechat platform of Fortune SG Fund Management Co., Ltd., the first issue of "Fortune SG's 2 advanced management tool overall 'T+0'" was pushed to all the customers who pay attention to Fortune SG's official Wechat account ...
Global oil and gas service company, AGR, has long had a presence throughout Africa and so will be building upon this at the 20th Africa Oil Week in Cape Town (25-29 November). The richness and diversity of hydrocarbon habitats, combined ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Key traffic across the internet has been "hijacked" several times this year and deliberately routed through locations in, first, Belarus and then Iceland. The hijackings - or "network interceptions" - were targeted at specific cities and ...
Tags: Internet, traffic, hijacked, Belarus, Iceland, Renesys
IT market research and advisory firm IDC has highlighted the potential for Application-Centric Infrastructure to benefit businesses and organisations in the Middle East. The ACI approach was recently announced by Cisco, and it aims to ...
Tags: IDC, Cisco, Application-Centric Infrastructure, Middle East
The Asian financial sector is predicted to increase its cloud uptake, according to IDC Financial Insights’ latest study, ‘Business Strategy: Asia/Pacific Financial Cloud 2013 – Getting the Best of Both Worlds.’ The ...
Prudential Individual Life Insurance, a business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU), has named Ann Nanda Vice President of Institutional Sales. In this role, she is responsible for building on and executing a strategy to deliver ...
Tags: Life Insurance
This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting Coloradoans to participate in one of 11 "listening sessions" that the agency is conducting around the country to solicit ideas about the best ways to reduce carbon emissions ...
Tags: Mining, Coal mining
We are pleased to announce that Minera Antucoya, located in Chile, which is owned 30% by Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) and 70% by Antofagasta plc (“Antofagasta”), one of the world’s leading copper ...
Tags: Copper Mining, Mineral
Facing the huge demand of China's consumers, more and more multinational Air Travel businesses are struggling to expand China market. As China's largest third-party payment platform, Alipay also has become the best partner for multinational ...
Tags: Alipay, webservice
Weak commodity prices, a shifting investment environment, and problems with governments and workers prompt Chinese mining companies to slow their expansion abroad, reports Du Juan from Tianjin Chinese investors in overseas mining projects ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China Merchants Securities won the clearing membership of CME Group via its subsidiary China Merchants Futures (HK), opening up a channel for Chinese mainland securities companies to provide overseas commercial risk hedging products and ...
More than 3.4 billion people, nearly half the world's population, own at least one mobile phone in 2013. As of 2010, more than 90 percent of people worldwide were covered by a mobile phone signal, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend ...
Tags: Mobile Phone, Consumer Electronics