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OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate remained at 5.6% in March 2007

added: 10-05-2007

The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.6% in March 2007, the same as the previous month but 0.6 percentage point lower than a year earlier.

Microsoft Acquires Equity Stake in CareerBuilder

added: 10-05-2007

Microsoft Corp., Gannett Co., Inc , Tribune Company, and The McClatchy Company announced that Microsoft has purchased a minority equity stake in CareerBuilder.com, the U.S.'s largest online job site.

Web 2.0 Still Not Understood by Most U.S. Companies

added: 10-05-2007

For many organizations, the impact and benefits of Web 2.0 or social media sites on their businesses are still unknown; this according to a recent survey of U.S. IT and business decision makers conducted by Clearswift.

Net Neutrality Would Cost Consumers $69 Billion over the Next 10 Years

added: 10-05-2007

Proposed Internet regulations would deprive consumers of $69 billion in potential benefits over the next 10 years by barring voluntary commercial agreements necessary to bring some new applications and services to the Internet, the American Consumer Institute estimates in a new study.

Infrastructure 2007: A Global Perspective Shows U.S. Lags Behind Asia, Much of Europe

added: 10-05-2007

The United States' relatively low investment in virtually all aspects of mobility-related infrastructure - airports, public transit, railway systems, roads and bridges - is an "emerging crisis" that will compromise the ability of the nation's cities to compete globally, according to a new report co-published by the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young.

S&P Unveils Annual List of Mid-Size Companies Expected to Emerge as Challengers to the World's Leading Companies

added: 10-05-2007

Standard & Poor's, the world's leading index provider, published a listing of 300 mid-size companies that are expected to emerge as challengers to the world's leading companies.

Companies That Don't Focus on Cutting Costs Save More Money When Offshoring

added: 10-05-2007

Companies that offshore with an emphasis on improving performance ultimately save 3.5 times more money as companies motivated to offshore for cost reasons, according to a new study from global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.

Most Companies Lack an Energy Strategy

added: 10-05-2007

While a majority of senior technology leaders from around the globe (82 percent) closely monitor the issue of global warming, most do not have a defined energy strategy to deal with it (65 percent), according to a new global survey released by Hill & Knowlton, Inc. In fact, more than three quarters of business decision makers surveyed (77 percent) believe there is a need to expand the C-Suite to include a Chief Energy Officer (CNO) to manage, implement and measure a company’s return on investment in environmental technology, the so-called Return on Environment (ROE).

Tokyo IPO: April IPO Market Summary and Outlook for May

added: 10-05-2007

There were 13 IPOs in April: seven on JASDAQ, three on TSE Mothers, and one each on OSE Hercules and the TSE 1st and 2nd sections. Activity was much lower than in April 2006 when there were 20 IPOs. The April 2007 IPOs procured JPY 39.2 billion, but the Yachiyo Bank IPO alone raised JPY 15.7 billion, about 40% of the monthly total. That means the average for each of the remaining 12 issues was only about JPY 2 billion.

Public Health: Adequate Funding Needed for EU Action Programme

added: 09-05-2007

Public health is still a policy for national governments, yet action at European level is often the best solution for improving the health of Europe's citizens. This requires adequate funding. The EP Committee on the Environment and Public Health is proposing that the EU budget in this area be increased by 10% and that the goals of the action programme for health be made more precise.

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