Category: Business
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NYSE acquires Euronext
The much-talked-about takeover of the Euronext stock exchange by the New York Stock Exchange is going to happen: The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has agreed to buy the pan-European Euronext exchange, creating the first transatlantic stock market. The NYSE…
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GE’s 24,000 page tax return
General Electric in the US has filed their tax return, which would run to 24,000 pages if it were prepared traditionally on paper: If the tax return was stacked up, it would be about eight feet tall. What is significant,…
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Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 31-May-06
A book: “The Definitive Guide” to Skype BBC chief outlines global ambitions Beware the PR moniker… CNET’s AllYouCanUpload Is Disruptive Corporate Conscience Survey Says Workers Should Come First Daewoo boss gets 10 years in jail MySpace.com the top source of…
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Google: The Buddha of the internet age
A nice soundbite from an observer of the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference taking place in the UK today: […] One analyst, who declined to be named, said: “Google likes to see itself as the Buddha of the internet age who…
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SAP and the science of market disruption
German enterprise software vendor SAP is open to an acquisition by US technology groups, according to a Financial Times report yesterday: […] Hasso Plattner, supervisory board chief at the German group, said in an interview with FT Deutschland, the FT’s…