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Alibaba and Yahoo reach buyback deal

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 18:45
Alibaba will buy back half of Yahoo’s 40% holding for a minimum of $7.1bn, a deal that paves the way for the US internet group to fully exit its stake

Pressure on new chief for Avon makeover

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 15:39
Bleak assessments from the group have left some shareholders wondering why Avon did not engage with Coty which withdrew its bid in frustration

Nato seeks orderly Afghanistan exit

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 14:17
The alliance’s leaders meet to try to extricate themselves from the country over the next two years without letting it slip back into a civil war

Nasdaq ‘embarrassed’ over Facebook IPO

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 13:12
Chief executive says the exchange is in talks with regulators over potentially millions of dollars work of customer compensation disputes

US and UK eye reaction to bank failure

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 11:54
The world’s first concrete plans are being devised to protect the broader financial system in the event that any of seven leading cross-border groups were to collapse

China buyers defer raw material cargos

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 10:52
The postponements and defaults of contracts are the clearest sign yet of the impact of the country’s economic slowdown on global commodities

EU summit to raise pressure on Merkel

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 10:20
Controversial proposals are back on the agenda. They were backed by some leaders in the past but forced off the agenda by the German chancellor’s objections

Lack of wire taps a hurdle in Gupta trial

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 10:13
The government hopes to use calls between others to make its case in the insider trading trial of the former Goldman Sachs board member

Lockerbie bomber dies claiming innocence

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 09:17
Megrahi’s second appeal was dropped on his release from prison so whoever placed the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 may now never be known

Amazon noses into industrial supply chain

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 07:57
Shares in the established US groups have suffered since the launch of the online retailer’s latest venture but there are doubts that it can dominate

Apple and Samsung begin settlement talks

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 07:42
In two days of judge-ordered talks, groups will attempt to find a resolution to their rival patent claims before a full jury trial gets under way

Fear drives Irish towards Yes vote

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 07:24
With just over a week to go until people vote, polls show support for the treaty remains steady at 37 per cent

McDonald’s lures young Chinese workers

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 07:02
Fast food chain capitalises on brand loyalty by turning restaurants into recruitment centres in attempt to nearly double mainland workforce

Refocus on US debt issue promises to rattle

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 05:38
Returning the deficit to a campaign focus looks to unsettle as the Republicans want to play on this turf while Obama has been trying to avoid it

China activists fear ‘reckoning’

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 05:15
Human rights activists are most worried about Mr Chen’s nephew, who was detained on charges of intentional homicide after his uncle’s escape

UK special forces Afghan role after 2014

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 04:38
Up to 200 SAS troops may be stationed to fight terrorism alongside British soldiers in a training and mentoring role

Expat vote starts Egypt presidential race

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 03:35
Of 100,000 ballots cast by Egyptian expatriates in 20 diplomatic outposts, Dr Aboul Fotouh received 26 per cent of the votes

Chinese activist ends odyssey in US

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 15:17
Departure of Chen and his family brings to an end the worst diplomatic spat between Beijing and Washington in over a decade

G8 splits over stimulus versus austerity

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 10:08
Merkel resists efforts by other G8 leaders to push eurozone to do more to stimulate growth

Murdoch quashes talk of UK paper spin-off

Fri, 05/18/2012 - 14:52
News Corp’s chief has moved to quash talk about selling its tainted UK newspaper business, saying publishing would remain ‘a core component’

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Remittances: Over the sea and far away

Economist - Special Report - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:05
For consumers who want to “wire” money to some far corner of the world, not much has changed since the days of the Old West. If you try to send a small amount of money from America to the Philippines, say, or Mexico, you will probably have to queue at a neighbourhood money-transfer agent and pay a fee that could easily reach 10% of the value of the remittance.

Mobile payments: A wealth of wallets

Economist - Special Report - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:05
Turn left off the main reception to PayPal’s offices in San Jose, open a nondescript door and you step into a garish living room dominated by a flat-screen television. This is a laboratory for what PayPal calls “couch commerce”: people sit in front of the television buying things with their mobile phones or tablet computers.

Expose, engage, empower: Connecting unlikely entrepreneurs in the mobile era

The infoDev team has taken a closer look at his and the other five finalists’ backgrounds, and we found some helpful insights about new sources of innovation, their promise, and their needs.

Breeding Wheat To Grow Where Other Plants Can’t

Fast Company's Co.Exist - Wed, 05/16/2012 - 14:00
We need to nearly double the amount of food we grow by mid-century if 9 billion people are going to have enough to eat. Yet most of the world’s prime farmland is already planted. The rest of the available land tends to lie under forests, or suffer from problems that keep it fallow. But feeding the world will mean redefining what is "arable" land.

More African nations hit agricultural investment target

Science and Development Network - Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:45
Five more African countries have met the Maputo Declaration goal of investing ten per cent of their national budgets in agriculture.

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