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Giappone Singapore
Sony, Samsung named in U.S. patent-infringement probe
The U.S. International Trade Commission said Thursday it will investigate 18 electronics makers, including Japan’s Sony Corp. and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co., over alleged patent infringements related to portable electronic devices, such as smartphones. The investigation is based on a complaint filed in March by Creative Technology Ltd. of ...
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USA Giappone
Private cash is answer to U.S. bullet train plan
It took years of lawsuits and political battles for California to finally break ground last year on America’s first bullet train, which aims to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2029. High-speed rail advocates had hoped the line, supported by more than $13 billion in state and federal money, ...
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Giappone
Japan’s monetary base rose 2.8% in April
The nation’s monetary base stood at ¥386.19 trillion at the end of April, up 2.8 percent from a month earlier, the Bank of Japan said Friday. It was a record high for the fifth straight month for the monetary base, or the combined balance of currency in circulation and commercial ...
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Giappone
Toyota plant shutdowns due to quakes end as production of key parts resumes
Toyota Motor Corp. resumed production Friday at its domestic assembly plants that had remained idle since a series of strong earthquakes in southwestern Japan in mid-April disrupted parts supplies, company officials said. The resumption means that all of the automaker’s 30 vehicle assembly lines in the country are now back ...
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Giappone
New Yorkers to pay for disposable plastic and paper bags
New Yorkers will soon have to pay for disposable plastic and paper bags in a city that consumes billions of them each year. The City Council voted on Thursday to require shoppers to pay 5 cents for each disposable bag they use in certain stores. The measure, adopted after heated ...
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USA Giappone
Never-completed TVA nuclear plant that cost $4 billion for sale
America’s largest public utility is selling a never-completed nuclear plant that has cost more than $4 billion dollars over the past four decades. The Tennessee Valley Authority board voted Thursday to declare the Bellefonte nuclear plant near Hollywood, Alabama, surplus. The site includes two partially finished nuclear reactors, office buildings, ...
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Non oil EAU rallenta
EMIRATI ARABI UNITI Dubai. 06/05/16. L'economia non oil del settore privato degli EAU rallenta ad aprile dopo il balzo in avanti di marzo. A rallentare l'indice economico la stagnazione dell'occupazione. È la seconda Leggi tutto...
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Turchia
La Turchia non cambierà la legge antiterrorismo come richiesto dall’Unione europea.
La Turchia non cambierà la legge antiterrorismo come richiesto dall’Unione europea. Il presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ha dichiarato che la Turchia non cambierà la legge antiterrorismo come richiesto dall’Unione europea in cambio della liberalizzazione dei visti per i cittadini turchi. Inoltre le dimissioni, annunciate ieri, del primo ministro Ahmet ...
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Spagna
Economía.- XTB comienza a cotizar en la Bolsa de Varsovia con una capitalización aproximada de 305 millones de euros
MADRID, 6 (EUROPA PRESS) X-Trade Brokers, compañía internacional especializada en el mercado 'over the counter', ha comenzado a cotizar en la Bolsa de Varsovia este viernes con una capitalización próxima a los 305,6 millones de euros, según ha informado la compañía.
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Australia
Australia’s flourishing black market
THE tobacco price hike may sound like a great idea, but it’s fuelling a dangerous and illegal trade linked to organised crime.