The FINANCIAL

24/05/2012 02:56 (1 Day 00:05 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- Ten years ago, Starbucks Coffee Company opened its first two stores in Madrid. This week Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman, president and ceo, and EMEA president Michelle Gass join hundreds of partners to celebrate a decade of growth with 75 stores throughout Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla and Valencia.

Banks

Kazakh city of Aktau to modernise heating

24/05/2012 02:59 (1 Day 00:02 minutes ago)
The FINANCIAL -- As Kazakhstan strives to cut energy waste and make its municipal service more commercially viable, the EBRD is supporting a modernisation programme for the district heating system in the city of Aktau preparing to finance several other municipal projects in the fast-developing Mangystau region.
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Western Union Highlights Strategic Initiatives at 2012 Annual Stockholders' Meeting
Growth in Developing East Asia and Pacific Is Strong But Slowing
Western Union Completes Acquisition of the French Operations of Travelex Global Business Payments

OP-ED

Europe: Germany’s Leadership

The FINANCIAL -- Greece has set June 17 as the date for the next elections. There is only one issue for the electorate to vote on: does Greek accept the austerity packages imposed on it or leave the euro zone.
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World News

Internet freedom must be priority for policymakers, says OSCE media freedom representative

25/05/2012 02:36 (00:26 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- Keeping the Internet free should be high on the agenda of international and human rights policy, said the OSCE Representative on Freedom Media Dunja Mijatović today at a conference organized by Google at the Newseum in Washington DC.

NASA Receives Widespread Concepts for Future Mars Missions

25/05/2012 02:28 (00:34 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- NASA's call to scientists and engineers to help plan a new strategy to explore Mars has resulted in almost double the amount of expected submissions with unique and bold ideas.

NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Meets Software Milestone

25/05/2012 02:26 (00:36 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- The Boeing Company has successfully completed a new milestone in the development of software that will operate its Crew Space Transportation (CST) spacecraft.

NASA Funded Research Shows Existence Of Reduced Carbon On Mars

25/05/2012 02:22 (00:40 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- NASA-funded research on Mars meteorites that landed on Earth shows strong evidence that very large molecules containing carbon, which is a key ingredient for the building blocks of life, can originate on the Red Planet.

CityLife

New breed of fans could buy 562 Fernando Torres’ with their season-long expenditure!

18/05/2012 09:23 (6 Day 17:39 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- To celebrate the UEFA Champions League final, official sponsor MasterCard today reveals a new breed of football fans who, in Europe, are collectively spending a staggering €35bn each season supporting clubs from foreign countries, proving that witnessing history truly is priceless.

TRAVEL BIZ »
Georgia Becoming Eco-Destination Ninth DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in China Opens in Taizhou Seven Von Essen hotels sold to Halcyon Hotels and Resorts

PRESS RELEASES »
Oklahoma City and Dallas-Ft. Worth most business-friendly cities Абхазия: от любви до ненависти Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection Supported by UN Women Open a Script Writers Competition

FINANCIAL »
Starbucks Celebrates 10 Years in Spain PUMA Introduces Evospeed Cross Category Collection New research to help improve inflammatory bowel disease treatment management

UKRAINE »
Business lesders meet with Ambassador of Ukraine and US State department officials Economic Growth in Ukrain Executive summary

GEORGIA »
Goodwill - the Best Georgian Investor Company of the Year ICC-Georgia to Host ICC Regional Meeting for the Broader Middle East-North Africa National Wine Competition to Promote Georgia as the Cradle of Wine

WORLD »
Record-Setting Astronaut Lopez-Alegria Departs NASA

BANKS »
Bringing pure water and sanitation to Romania’s Galati county Taipei China renews its donor support to EBRD mandate BofA Merrill Lynch Named Institutional Investor Magazine’s Top Asia Brokerage

BUSINESS »
Swiss Re announces GBP 1.4 billion longevity insurance cover for AkzoNobel's UK pension fund Zurich's General Insurance business announces further senior appointments Mega-projects need courage, dependability and innovation in insurance underwriting

TECH »
Triaxial acceleration sensor and gyroscope in single package Universidad Europea de Madrid chooses Cisco CleanAir Technology HP Launches Multi-year Restructuring to Fuel Innovation and Enable Investment

MARKETS »
NYSE Technologies and the Warsaw Stock Exchange announce market data partnership The NYSE Big StartUpSM Launches Small Business Connections: Marketing Meets Microfinancing Listing measure Antonov PLC

B SCHOOLS »
Public services on threshold of a tech-driven reorganisation Beyond compliance Economic rattling means humdrum growth for remainder of year

SPECIAL REPORTS »

Politics

International monitors to pull out of Bosnia's Brcko

24/05/2012 03:32 (23:30 minutes ago)
The FINANCIAL -- International monitors decided Wednesday to pull out of the sensitive Bosnian town of Brcko, whose neutral status has been a source of tensions in the ethnically-divided Balkan state.
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PR Releases

Oklahoma City and Dallas-Ft. Worth most business-friendly cities

05/05/2012 02:04 (20 Day 00:58 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- Today Thumbtack.com, in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation, has released new data showing that Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and Utah all earned A+'s for their friendliness towards small businesses.

Markets

NYSE Technologies and the Warsaw Stock Exchange announce market data partnership

24/05/2012 06:41 (20:21 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext announced its market data partnership with the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Jobs

European Commission calls on Member States to implement national plans for Roma integration

24/05/2012 03:38 (23:24 minutes ago)

The FINANCIAL -- The European Commission has called on EU Member States, in a report adopted, to implement their national strategies to improve the economic and social integration of Europe's 10 to 12 million Roma.

TRAVEL BIZ

Snow Cones: The Venerable Summer Treat

25/05/2012 03:00 (00:02 minutes ago)
The FINANCIAL -- Remember those long ago hot summer days when nothing tasted better or cooled you down faster than a slushy snow cone, frozen mounds packed into little white cone cups.
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Starwood Preferred Guest Offers Exclusive Member Access to Music Performances

25/05/2012 02:54 (00:08 minutes ago)
The FINANCIAL -- Starwood Preferred Guest , the award-winning loyalty program from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, announces exclusive access to London's biggest music performances in Hyde Park this summer.
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Oil&Auto

BMW Group expands activities in China

24/05/2012 08:03 (18:59 minutes ago)
The FINANCIAL -- BMW AG and its joint venture partner, Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd., are opening the most sustainable automobile production facility in China and one of the most innovative and flexible automobile production facilities worldwide.
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