A survey released today by Simply Business, the UK's first online comparative and purchasing facility for business finance & insurance, has revealed that the UK small business community are less likely to use Google than UK consumers.
Over January-September 2006 volume of export of crude oil and gas condensate from Russia (including Byelorussia's volume data) has decreased by 1,2% to 186,6 million tons as against that of 2005, informed Rosstat of Russia referring to the Federal Custom Service of Russia.
The Chinese surface mount technology (SMT) equipment market is a rapidly developing market and will continue to grow strongly mainly driven by demand from end-user sectors like telecom and computers. However, factors like declining prices of the SMT equipment are limiting the growth of the market.
The Czech Republic needs to establish liability against legal persons for foreign bribery without delay and put in place sanctions that are effective, proportionate and dissuasive, according to a report by the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery.
EU energy ministers have presented their views on the future direction of the EU?s energy policy in contributing to the strategic decisions that will be taken in the European Council meeting next March. The transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council in Brussels on November 23 was chaired by Minister of Trade and Industry Mauri Pekkarinen and focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Six months after having obtained the mandate from EU Member States, the European Commission has succeeded in negotiating an agreement with the Russian Federation on the longstanding issue of Siberian overflight payments. It finally solves a 20 years thorny conflict between the EU Member States and the Russian Federation, costing around € 300 million to EU airlines in 2006. Vice-President Jacques Barrot initialled today the agreement with the Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin in the margins of the EU-Russia summit in Helsinki on 24 November in the presence of the Finnish transport Minister Ms Susanna Huovinen.
The ADB Board of Directors approved the establishment of a carbon market trust fund to boost the number of clean energy projects in Asia and the Pacific.
Alcatel today announced that it been awarded a full-scale, nationwide IP network deployment project by China Mobile Communications Corporation, the largest mobile communication services provider in China. The deployment of Alcatel's industry-leading IP routing solution will enable China Mobile to accelerate the delivery of IP-based premium voice and multimedia services to its customers. The project was won through Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel's Chinese flagship company.
Brussels has become Europe’s most competitive location as a result of the unique levels of public sector investment it receives through the activities of the European Commission, alongside an increasingly knowledge-intensive private sector and a transport infrastructure that makes it one of the most accessible cities in Europe.
Operators in the Brazilian telecommunication services market are realizing that traditionally profitable end-user segments such as higher end users and multinational corporations are on the edge of saturation.
