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USA
Does it ad up?
“POETIC” is how Marissa Mayer, the boss of Yahoo (pictured), described the sale. Others, remembering better times at Yahoo, see little that is artful about the decline and fall of the 22-year-old internet company. On July 25th, Verizon, a telecoms giant that is also America’s biggest mobile operator, announced it ...
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Cina
Hans free
Would an outsider do better? “THE pace of technological change will only increase,” Hans Vestberg told a group of visitors to Ericsson’s headquarters in Stockholm a few months ago, adding that his company had to learn from “innovators”. Though Ericsson is a colossus, with two-fifths of the world’s mobile-phone traffic passing ...
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USA
Change, or else
BASHING big business used to be the preserve of politicians on the left. But so unpopular are America’s corporate titans—ranking below even newspapers (see chart)—that attacks on them were as much a feature of this month’s Republican convention as they were of the just-concluding Democratic bash. Unsettled by this hostility ...
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Brasile
Arrecadação cai 7,33% no primeiro semestre, diz Receita Federal
Arrecadação federal de impostos federais somou R$ 617,257 bilhões no primeiro semestre, com queda real de 7,33% Agencia Brasil A arrecadação federal de impostos e contribuições federais somou R$ 617,257 bilhões no primeiro semestre, com queda real de 7,33% na comparação com o mesmo período do ano passado, descontada a ...
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Brasile
Brazil's tax collection drops in June
Taxes collected in Brazil reached $188 billion in the first half of 2016, down 7.33% compared with the same period last year, with inflation adjustment. The figures were disclosed today (Jul. 28) by the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In June, tax revenue stood at $29.8 billion. The total amount ...
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Brasile
Em greve, técnicos do BC esperam sanção de lei que altera carreira
Técnicos do Banco Central (BC), em greve há 18 dias, aguardam a sanção de lei que prevê, além de aumento salarial para os servidores, a modernização da carreira com exigência de nível superior para acesso ao cargo. Atualmente, a exigência para o cargo de técnico é de nível médio. O ...
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Portogallo
Mitsui entra em projeto de carvão da Vale
A Vale fechou ontem com a Mitsui o acordo para vender parte de seus ativos de carvão em Moçambique - a mina de Moatize e o corredor logístico de Nacala, formado por ferrovia e porto - para a companhia japonesa. Mercado prevê que empresa pode colocar US$ 3 bi em ...
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Brasile
A volta de investimentos em infraestrutura
A questão que se coloca no momento é qual deveria ser o foco para uma retomada consistente dos investimentos em infraestrutura no Brasil e qual a dinâ...
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Francia
«Que des intentions...»
Le Conseil des ministres a procédé, avant-hier, à l’adoption d’un nouveau modèle de croissance, vanté comme une véritable stratégie de sortie de crise. Comment analysez-vous la portée de ce projet ? Le Conseil des ministres a évoqué un nouveau modèle de croissance, pas un nouveau modèle économique, ce qui change ...
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Turchia
Meeting with Moody’s positive, says Turkey’s finance minister
Finance Minister Naci Ağbal has said he had a “positive” meeting with representatives from the Moody’s rating agency and he expected the agency’s final consideration be positive as well, unlike the recent downgrade from Standard & Poor’s, private broadcaster NTV reported on July 28