News tagged with global economic environment


India's Infosys Q1 profit up 17.2 pct, beats forecasts

Technology / Business

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

India's second-biggest software exporter Infosys announced Friday a better-than-expected 17.2 percent rise in first-quarter net profit, but said global conditions remained challenging.





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Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp. announced an annual net loss of 125.82 billion yen (1.3 billion dollars)

Japan's Sharp reports 1.3 bln dollar annual loss

Technology / Business

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp. announced an annual net loss of 1.3 billion dollars, its first ever, due to a slump in sales, but it forecast a return to profit this year.


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Hewlett Packard to create 500 jobs in Ireland

Technology / Business

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US technology company Hewlett Packard is to create 500 jobs with an 18-million-euro (23-million-dollar) expansion of its global service desk operation in Leixlip, County Kildare southwest of Dublin, Prime ...


Reducing consumption key to a sustainable future

Reducing consumption key to a sustainable future

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 11, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (14) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Based on then ground-breaking modelling, the forecasts of global ecological and economic collapse by mid-century contained in the controversial 1972 book; The Limits to Growth, are still ‘on-track’ ...


NEC's President, Kaoru Yano

Japan's NEC to exit supercomputer project

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Japan's ailing IT giant NEC Corp. said Thursday that it would withdraw from a government-backed supercomputer project as part of its efforts to cut costs during the economic slump.


Madoff scandal's impact on the life sciences

Other Sciences / Economics

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme led to the collapse of the Picower Foundation, a major benefactor for life science research, many bioindustry observers view the fallout from the scandal as a minor consequence in the ...


China: Will ensure stimulus protects environment

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- China said Friday it will strictly monitor the government's economic stimulus package for projects that cause pollution, addressing worries that officials would ignore the environment in an effort to maintain China's ...


Freshwater Fish Invasions the Result of Human Activity

Freshwater Fish Invasions the Result of Human Activity

Biology /

created Feb 05, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Globally, invasive species represent a major threat to native species. A new paper published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology shows that, for rivers and lakes, where these invasions occur ...


Tobacco use will continue, possibly grow, during recession, expert says

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even though tobacco use is expected to kill 6 million people worldwide and drain $500 billion from the global economy each year — according to a new report co-authored by a Georgia State University tobacco expert — the recession ...


India's Wipro posts 19 percent rise in profits

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

India's third-largest software group Wipro on Tuesday reported a 19-percent rise in net profit and forecast improving demand, underscoring new optimism in the sector.


Do the media lead entrepreneurs astray?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If you're looking for reliable information, then you won't necessarily find it in the newspaper. According to Dr. Susan Glover from the University of California in the US, public information from both informal and written ...



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