Google chairman Eric Schmidt has encouraged the UK government to open up a debate about reforming international tax laws, a week after the firm had been heavily criticised for "doing evil" by the chair of the public accounts committee, ...
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Washington's biggest problem when it comes to Bitcoin may just be that policymakers on the Hill don't know enough about it, yet. That was the general consensus of a panel of legal experts speaking Saturday at a Silicon Valley conference ...
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IDG News Service - Bitcoin is growing up. The virtual currency that caught the public's attention last month when its value zoomed briefly past $200 kicked off its first Silicon Valley conference Friday evening and shows no sign of losing ...
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More bumps in the road are probably in store for Bitcoin. The virtual currency has seen some massive swings in value over the last several weeks, but that volatility is not likely to end soon, its lead developer suggested on Saturday. ...
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What Are Cheongsams Cheongsam, a female dress with distinctive Chinese features, known to the whole world as a language that expresses the beauty of oriental women, now enjoys a growing popularity in the international world ...
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The announcements this week by North American energy companies Marathon Oil and Talisman Energy that they are pulling out of shale gas exploration in Poland seems to have finally killed the government's initial hope that the former Soviet ...
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Coca Cola Amatil (CCA) has attacked the Northern Territory's cash-for-containers recycling scheme, saying it's old fashioned and inefficient, and will increase the price of soft drinks. CCA chairman David Gonski said the company's own ...
From 23 to 26 April 2013, over a period of four days, the international water industry gathered at Wasser Berlin International. The most notable aspect of Wasser Berlin International 2013 was the marked rise in international exhibitor and ...
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Volkswagen has given a revealing insight into its next-generation powertrain technology, confirming development of a 10-speed DSG, a high-performance diesel engine and a focus on plug-in hybrid and natural gas propulsion systems for its ...
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European Union politicians are at loggerheads following a vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday that rejected proposals to store and share information on airline passengers. The Parliament's civil liberties committee voted against ...
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The CEO of Standard & Poor's (S&P) in Mexico, Victor Manuel Herrera, hoped that the differences of politicians are resolved "very shortly" to maintain the dynamic of the current federal administration. He said he was "disappointed" that ...
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The issue of the extraction and storage of renewable energies is of interest to scientists and politicians worldwide. For this reason, Messe Düsseldorf has begun to export the successful Energy Storage Düsseldorf concept and to ...
The U.S. Congress should limit the ability of patent holders that don't make products to file infringement complaints at the U.S. International Trade Commission because of a huge increase in cases there, representatives of some companies ...
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Changes to Part L of the building regulations, including a decision about LENI, will be announced by July, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has told Lighting. The possible introduction in Part L of the lighting ...
Due to excessive fertilisation by agriculture and the release of untreated waste water and sewage, the Baltic Sea has been battling with substantial environmental damage. In St. Petersburg a large-scale waste water project was initiated ...
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