As Bitcoin's popularity grows, so does talk about its standing as legal tender, but there are lingering issues that need to be sorted out before people start using Bitcoin to buy everyday things, experts said on Monday. Bitcoin has been ...
Eight city corporations in Bangladesh, India will be replacing fluorescent and sodium street lights to energy saving LED lights, according to local newspaper The Daily Star. The replacement to LED is estimated to save the province 10 ...
With the high-tech economy system in Sweden, notes and coins has almost completely eliminated, and Sweden is moving towards into a "Cashless Society". According to the data of the European central bank, only 27% of the total retail sales in ...
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The Societe Generale bank said in a report, the per capita GDP in the Euro area would be flat from 2007 to 2007, which means that it will be the Europe's "lost decade". The main reason of European economic growth weakly lies in the fact ...
Recently, bank of America Merrill lynch said, although the team of foreign exchange expect that the economic outlook is moderate economic recovery and inflation slow growth, but the forecast is faced with many risks. 1. The downside ...
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Rhodium prices resumed their decline this week, falling nearly $20 per day according to some sources, as speculative investors began liquidating their long positions ahead of the year's end. The Platts New York Dealer rhodium price range ...
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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. ...
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A new round of shorting is emerging on China's bitcoin market after the central bank announced last week that the vitrual currency is not legal tender. A platform under Baidu, where users can pay to improve their network speed, has ...
The new MagnaTherm from Laars is a 95% thermal efficiency modulating-condensing boiler or volume water heater available in 2, 3 and 4 million BTU/Hr sizes. MagnaTherm offers a 5:1 turndown, small footprint, slim vertical design with ...
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The new "Latin America Online Payment Methods 2013 – Second Half 2013" by Hamburg-based secondary market research company yStats.com indicates that online payment continues its growth in the emerging markets of this dynamic region. ...
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Kellwood Company, a leading apparel manufacturer and marketer owned by affiliates of Sun Capital Partners Inc., announced the appointment of Lynn Shanahan to Chief Executive Officer of Kellwood Company following the Initial Public Offering ...
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Willy Wonka is at it again. Not since Violet Beauregarde furiously chewed on a three-course meal piece of gum and suffered the consequences has the confectionery category seen such high levels of innovation and new product development ...
It's not easy to find IT staff with the right skill-set, and it's even harder to find people with good Cisco skills. That's according to Steve Capper, director of IT at construction firm Skanska, as he told Computing recently. Further ...
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There’s a patchwork of regulation when it comes to the towing industry— out of Ontario’s 444 municipalities, only a handful have towing regulations and even those are not harmonized and don’t properly regulate ...
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Sumitomo Life Insurance of Japan has reached an agreement to acquire 40% stake in PT Bank Negara Indonesia's life insurance business for nearly JPY36.2bn ($354m). Sumitomo Life said in a statement that the partnership with BNI and BNI ...
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