Tech stocks have been climbing recently as key vendors such as Cisco and Lenovo report positive quarterly earnings and the U.S. economy offers glimpses of good news. So far this year, shares in IT companies rose steadily until April and ...
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A Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus on charges that he launched denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com and eBay in 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was arrested Wednesday, the ...
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The U.N.’s civil aviation body will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada, as new technologies introduced into aviation systems are increasing the risk of cyber attacks. The International ...
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Magasins de jouets sans frontières? Do you remember the TV game show It’s A Knockout or the Peter Gabriel song Jeux Sans Frontières? Now it’s toy shops’ turn to expand beyond traditional frontiers. ...
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The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation has announced the addition of ten new countries to its international ‘Litter Less' education campaign led by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).This addition brings the number of ...
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Euro area1 annual inflation was 2.2% in November 2012, down from 2.5% in October2. A year earlier the rate was 3.0%. Monthly inflation was -0.2% in November 2012. EU3 annual inflation was 2.4% in November 2012, down from 2.6% in October. ...
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The European Union (EU) Commission announced that it would refer Cyprus to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for non-compliance with the Landfill Directive. Six landfills accepting wastes from tLimassol and Nicosia are allegedly ...
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Analysis of recently completed seismic data by top multinational companies showed that Lebanon's gas wealth could exceed that of Israel. Mr Salah Khayat said CEO of Lebanon's upstream oil and gas company Petroleb said that "Analysis of ...
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Qatar First Investment Bank(QFIB),Qatar's first independent Shari'ah compliant bank authorized by the QFC regulatory authority,announced the acquisition of a 40%stake in English Home,the leading retailer of home textile products in Turkey. ...
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Along with its Tokyo-based partner Nissho Electronics, Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits ...
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A three-year groundwater quality assessment programme in Cyprus found increased arsenic levels in drinking water.A novel field-based arsenic speciation separation technique determined that arsenate was the predominant species. The ...
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Dubai Group is in talks to sell its 45 percent stake in a joint venture firm with cement maker Lafarge, two sources familiar with the matter said, as the state investment vehicle sells assets to repay its $10 billion debt pile. Lafarge ...
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WITH the forced closure of another sawmill at Tambo last week, the Queensland timber industry has warned it is at risk of "decimation" unless urgent action is taken to fill critical labour shortages. Sawmill operator NK Collins Industries ...
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