SPECIAL REPORT SERIES by Lady Michelle Jennifer Santos – TSR Founder & Publisher and Strategy/Peace Negotiator with the UN Security Council Special Envoy to the Arab Nations Oct. 20, 2011 (TSR) – The Great Libyan Arab Jamahiriya founding father, Col. Muammar Gaddafi and his son, Mutassim is indeed dead and was confirmed per phone by [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have begun a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s business practices. In a blog post Friday, the Internet search giant said it received notification from the Federal Trade Commission of the review on Thursday. Google said “it‘s still unclear exactly what the FTC’s concerns are.” But the inquiry is expected to focus [...]
At present, there are 18 countries grouped within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region – all with significantly differing cultures, politics, economies, social societies and current events. This paper outlines the areas of increasing risk for businesses operating within or doing business with companies operating in the region. With recent events of social and political unrest [...]
PARIS, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire — Industry leaders from the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) and the Aerospace Industries Association of America (AIA) reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate on a wide variety of issues during an annual meeting at the 2011 Paris Airshow. “Aircraft manufacturers are very serious about reducing aviation’s [...]
Steve Jobs gave a speech to the Cupertino City Council to get approval for a new Apple campus. It looks like “a spaceship just landed there,” Jobs said. And indeed it’s a very ambitious thing. It’s one giant building that would hold 12,000 people. The building is circular with “not a straight piece of [...]
Facebook hit 687 million users worldwide at the start of June, increasing its total monthly audience by 1.7%, according to a new study by research and marketing group Inside Facebook. CheckFacebook.com says that Australia currently has 10,368,720 Facebook users, comprising 1.52% of the global audience. Inside Facebook said last month that Australia has 10.0 [...]
The stock of social-network LinkedIn has had a heck of an IPO debut this morning, popping 90%+ above the IPO price. That means folks like us get to write breathless stories about how much money investors are making and how everyone’s partying like it’s 1999. It also means LinkedIn’s underwriters, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, et al, just screwed [...]
Police in South Korea said they had raided Google’s Korea head office in Seoul on Tuesday on suspicion that the subsidiary of the search engine company had illegally collected location data from application subscribers. “The raid isn’t directly related to Google but to an app development company,” said Seonghun Kim, detective inspector with the Seoul Metropolitan [...]
LONDON, UK. November 22, 2010. – A leading distributor of handsets claims that mobile phone stock shortages will become a global issue as the market moves into 2011. The lack of supply, the worst experienced in 20 years, is being caused by increasing demand for components common to a range of consumer electronics devices. The [...]
The Russian government’s move to create a state-sponsored, Linux-based operating system is unlikely to spawn copycats among enterprise IT shops, according to industry analysts. Last week, Russia announced its intention to reduce its dependence on U.S. technology and boost IT security by spending US$5 million to build out a Linux-based OS. The exact details of the new OS will be [...]