Archive for March 11th, 2008
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Verizon Wireless' 99.99 U.S. dollar plan giving subscribers unlimited calls is boosting gross subscriber additions, Doreen Toben, Verizon chief financial officer, said Monday.
Verizon Wireless introduced the plan three weeks ago. AT& ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
The European Union (EU) announced Monday it will terminate its anti-dumping investigation of Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) imports from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.
The draft decision, which proposes to cancel the temporary anti-dumpi ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
The Walt Disney Co. expects to collect 1 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from online content this fiscal year, a significant rise from estimates for fiscal 2007, according to media reports Tuesday.
The company has been "fairly aggre ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
People-product companies in the United States are expanding into the pet market, counting on their brand name to lure business from America's 80 million owners of cats and dogs.
Dozens of companies â?? from Harley-Davidson motorcycle ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Shares of Virgin Media Inc. rose in early afternoon trading Monday after a British newspaper, The Observer, said four U.S. private equity firms are prepared to make an offer for the British television and telephone company.
The stock ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
U.S. employers nationwide eliminated some 63,000 jobs last month -- the most in one month since March 2003 -- but more than a quarter of U.S. companies are planning to hire within the next three months, according to a survey of 14,000 compa ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
South Korea will cut a total of 20 trillion won (20.48 billion U.S. dollar) of the budget within two years in a bid to enhance efficiency of the government, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance said on Tuesday.
According to local me ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
A common board to trade selected blue-chip stocks listed in six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will be established as a step towards integration, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Tuesday.
The plan ...
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