AMD has appointed Dasaradha 'GD' Gude as MD for its India operations. As the lead for AMD India R&D, his responsibilities include in-region development and management of AMD's broad and growing portfolio of consumer and commercial platforms and processors.
This change is part of AMD's recently announced decision to re-architect its business for sustained profitability. AMD's India engineering operations have now become part of the Central Engineering leadership team, recently created to direct the development and execution of AMD's technology and product roadmaps in partnership with AMD's business units. The Central Engineering team is co-led by engineering executives Chekib Akrout and Jeff VerHeul, both of whom report to Dirk Meyer, AMD president and CEO.
GD brings with him more than 25 years of experience in the Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) domain, spanning various entrepreneurial roles and most recently as the managing director of the AMD R&D center, Hyderabad. In this role, he managed a team of engineers who delivered leading-edge technologies for AMD's graphics and consumer electronics businesses.
He was also instrumental in establishing AMD's 'Centre of Excellence for Audio Technology.'
Dasaradha Gude said, "AMD India has grown significantly since its inception and has turned out to be a critical contributor to the product roadmap of the company. The creation of a Centralized Engineering organization helps align and focus AMD's world-class engineers and intellectual property portfolio on the strong business opportunities in front of us. We look forward to taking our engineering activities in India to greater heights."
AMD - Dasaradha Gude appointed as MD India Operations
Tata Communications launched Work From Home Solution
Tata Communications has launched a new service that enables BPO employees to work from home. A press release said that the service will enable ITeS companies to give their employees the option to work from home, while not compromising on security issues.
The Tata Communications Work From Home solution is offered as an overlay on its IP-VPN/MPLS network.
"BPO employees are expected to benefit in terms of reduced travel time and being able to maintain a better work-life balance. Employers would gain by way of lower real estate and administrative costs and availability of alternative talent pools, for instance home-makers, to meet their staff and growth plans," said Sunil Joshi, president (Enterprise Business Unit) of Tata Communications.
GLOBAL MARKETS-Credit concerns hit stocks, high-yielding FX
* MSCI world equity index down 0.4 percent at 339.99
* Emerging market stocks, high-yielding currencies fall
* Japan GDP data, JPMorgan reinforce credit/economy concerns
By Natsuko Waki
LONDON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Investors cut back on risky assets on Wednesday, dumping emerging market stocks and high-yielding currencies on global credit and economic concerns while the dollar stepped back from this week's six-month peak. The low-yielding yen rose across the board while oil prices climbed above $113 a barrel after hitting a three-month low on Tuesday.
Fresh data added to evidence that U.S. economic problems are spilling over to the rest of the world. Japan's economy contracted in the second quarter at the sharpest rate in seven years, reinforcing the view that the world's No. 2 economy has slipped into recession.
News that JPMorgan (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has racked up $1.5 billion of losses so far this quarter on mortgage-linked assets and an outlook warning from Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA.AX: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) reminded investors that the fallout from the year-old credit crisis is far from over.
"Credit fears are rising again after the news from JPMorgan ... With the fall on Wall Street overnight, that will weigh today," said Benoit De Broissia, analyst at Richelieu Finance in Paris.
Emerging stocks .MSCIEF fell to a one-year low of 976.25, underperforming their developed market counterparts, which fell 0.4 percent on the day, according to the MSCI main world equity index .MIWD00000PUS.The FTSEurofirst 300 index fell 0.7 percent.
HIGH-YIELDING VICTIMS
The New Zealand dollar, which boasts the highest interest rate in the industrialised world, fell 2 percent to a two-year low near 74 yen
The two currencies have been under pressure as expectations intensify that falling commodity prices will encourage central banks there to cut interest rates.
"With real policy rates in the region set to fall, both economies are likely to see a more protracted spell of high inflation, a risk that will be exacerbated if the trade term gains over the past years are to reverse course going forward," Simon Wong, economist at Standard Chartered, said in a note.
"Another challenge will come from potential adjustments in external balance in reaction to lower real returns on the region's financial assets that could undermine the supply of foreign funding to the domestic financial sectors."
The dollar was down 0.3 percent against a basket of major currencies .DXY, after hitting a six-month high on Tuesday.
Emerging sovereign spreads 11EMJ were steady. The September Bund future FGBLU8 fell 5 ticks while two-year euro zone government bonds
U.S. light crude CLc1 rose 0.8 percent to $113.92 a barrel, having fallen more than $30 from its record peak in July. Gold
Source: www.reuters.com
Australia's CSL to buy Talecris for $3.1 billion
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's CSL Ltd (CSL.AX: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the world's top maker of blood plasma products, is buying smaller U.S. rival Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings Corp for $3.1 billion, to boost its presence in the fast-growing biopharmaceutical industry.
Talecris, which operates 56 plasma collection centers and two manufacturing facilities in the United States, is being sold by its private equity owners, Cerberus Partners and Ampersand Ventures.
"The price they are paying is probably a pretty full one, but CSL would be able to extract quite a few synergies," said Sean Fenton, a fund manager with Tribeca Investment Partners, which oversees about A$650 million ($571 million), including CSL shares.
Analysts said the deal would lift CSL's 2008/09 earnings per share by 10 percent, driven largely by cutting costs. The deal represents a price to core earnings multiple of 12.7, which fund managers said was fair, but CSL's scale of operations would enable it to extract cost savings.
"This is a highly accretive transaction, though there are some execution issues," UBS analyst Dan Hurren said.
CSL, which makes products out of blood plasma to treat immune deficiencies and blood disorders, like hemophilia, also reported a 30 percent rise in fiscal 2008 profit to A$702 million.
It also makes vaccines, like flu vaccine and licensed its cervical cancer vaccine to Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz).
Talecris generated $1.2 billion sales for the year to end-June and earned core earnings of $258 million."The rationale for the deal is that CSL's operating margins are much better and they can take that business and drive up towards their margin," Fenton said.
ENHANCE DOMINANCE
CSL said the proposed deal, subject to regulatory approvals including from antitrust authorities, would enhance its position in the $15 billion global plasma products market. It would give CSL access to fast growing key plasma products such as Gamunex and Prolastin and expand its geographical presence.
The deal would also boost CSL's position against rivals Baxter International (BAX.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), Spain's Grifols (GRLS.MC: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and privately-owned Swiss group Octapharma.
The global plasma therapies industry has grown at a compounded annual rate of 10 percent over the past decade, CSL said, as doctors look for new ways to treat bleeding disorders, infections and diseases. CSL expects the strong growth to continue.
"In a revenue sense, certainly 10 percent is not an unreasonable assumption with our current information," CSL Managing Director Brian McNamee told a briefing.
CSL plans to raise $1.5 billion through an institutional share placement to fund part of the deal, and would raise $1.6 billion in debt to complete the transaction.
McNamee said he anticipated support for the proposed equity raising, which was fully underwritten by Merrill Lynch.
CSL expects synergy benefits of about $225 million per annum, to be realized over three years. CSL shares were halted on Wednesday pending the announcement. The stock closed at A$39 on Tuesday, having gained nearly 29 percent over the past year. The new shares are being sold in a range of A$34.50-A$39.00 each, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters.Source: http://www.reuters.com
Apple unveils iPhone 3G
The biggest news of the week was the industry's worst kept secret. Nobody was the slightest bit surprised when Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone 3G.
Apple's competitors were definitely not surprised and Samsung and RIM both rushed out details of rival offerings to steal Apple's thunder. The new iPhone will start at the reduced price of $199 the world over, further adding interest from consumers. Industry analysts were also unsurprised, and at least a few were also unimpressed, with Apple's latest handset.
The device was damned with faint praise by one observer who described it as "no market changer", adding that the improvements do little more than help Apple keep up with the competition.
Info-Tech Research Group noted that that the addition of 3G, GPS and third-party applications simply allow Apple to match key competitors like RIM and other smartphone manufacturers.
But it is not just the technology that counts and we confidently predict that the iPhones will sell like hot cakes, especially as one of the biggest issues - price - has been addressed.
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Search Volume Data update on Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Google recently added search volume data on Adwords keyword tool Using this tool advertiser will be able to see the approximate number of search queries matching your keywords that were performed on Google and the search network. These approximate numbers are intended to provide better insight into keywords' monthly and average search volumes than previously provided by the tool.
Here's a screenshot of the updated Keyword Tool:
There are so many keyword research tools available in the market where people can search their targeted keywords/phrases. These tool also provide you related phrases on which you can optimize your webpage or site. But all these tools not providing search volume data on keywords that you want to target. Google is now coming with new features on keyword tool.
People can view this new feature by looking at the Keyword Tool's Approx Search Volume columns. This new feature (Search volume data) may be useful to improve the better result like:
1. You want to create ad group with high-traffic keywords, target ad text and a specific landing page with targeted set of similar keywords then you can find valuable solutions through this Keyword Tool.
2. After analysis on highly targeted keywords you can plan you advertising budget planning.
3. you can take relative keywords using keyword tool that may generate quality leads within your budget.
On Inside Adwords, Trevor Claiborne mentioned about Search Volume Data of Keyword Tool. This tool also provides several other keyword-related metrics that can help you to improve the overall performance of your Advertisement campaign. To learn more about Keyword Tool, Visit AdWords Help Center.
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Accounts Payable
Many companies in the UK and USA Today outsourcing their accounts payable jobs abroad destinations. This trend of accounts payable outsourcing offers several advantages to society in terms of manpower cheaper and faster. Studies show that the accounts payable is the most widely subcontracting finance and accounting. It is alleged that finance and accounting BPO opportunity is one of the largest and fastest growing BPO segments.
It is estimated that Europe, the Middle East and Africa will be the fastest growing areas account to pay the subcontracting market, despite USA It is expected to remain the biggest player finance and accounting BPO market. Like virtually all subcontractors to cut costs is a major reason why companies have outsourced their process of accounts payable, although strategic business decisions play an important role today.
The outsourcing of accounts payable can enable managers to better focus on their regular work. On many occasions, it was reported that the manger precious time is consumed in regular monitoring of administrative work. Then, human resources May have to find the right people with qualifications and skills to manage this type of work. The infrastructure needed to run this department May must be established. Many small businesses have understood the various benefits of outsourcing and han ido for small businesses to pay external accounts. When small companies outsource its accounts payable, receiving relief from the burden of making non-core, work or tasks repeated several times.
For small businesses of any expiration in accounts payable in late May a loss. May losses occur through penalties for late payments, loss of discounts for prompt payment, and loss of goodwill. Accounts payable accounts receivable is another company. Only when these two accounts are managed carefully, cash flows can be healthy. Therefore, companies allow reductions as incentives, when they receive payment on time, but gather criminal charges when they are in default.
A company can outsource all or part of its account to pay corporate functions. The functions May include any of the following:
• Accounts foot the bill for exploration
• Workflow and accounts payable
• Accounts to pay the bill of entry
• Accounts payable disbursement of payment
• Accounts to pay bills online filing
• Travel and expenses
The outsourcing of accounts payable May have several advantages:
• Up to 25% to 50% by an A / P processing costs without capital investment
• mayor, centralized control over accounts payable throughout the company, despite the physical location
• World-Class Quality and ensure the adequacy and accuracy exactly the elimination of double payments and errors
• real-time tracking and reporting of all accounts payable from the moment they are received from suppliers
• automatic routing of accounts payable for approval, regardless of their location, improve control and productivity manager
• The elimination of the head of recruitment, hiring and personnel management office
• The ability to focus on strategies for basic operations
Thanks to accounts payable outsourcing, companies can now focus on developing basic skills, knowing that an essential part of its activities, accounts payable, is professional hands to a considerably low cost.
What Google Thinks Of Your Site
How Google views your site does matter if you want to succeed online because Google has become the dominant search engine on the web. It now has over 60% of the U.S. search engine market. In other countries around the world that percentage rises to 80% or more. In addition, the Google Brand Name has solidly permeated the popular psyche and any top rankings within Google will bring much weight and prestige along with all that traffic.
If you're a webmaster, you will already know how vital Google is to the success of your site, especially if you rely upon organic keyword rankings for your traffic. This free organic traffic from Google is highly desired by webmasters because it is extremely targeted and delivers high conversion rates.
In trying to reach the highest rankings possible, I (like most webmasters) have to be constantly aware of what Google thinks of my site and content. As a webmaster and marketer I have always geared my onlíne marketing towards Google. I have spent years building my keyword rankings within Google; if you take out the fact that it has nearly driven me insane, it has mostly been a positive experience.
This experience has also shown me it is indeed important for anyone to know how Google views and rates your site or content. The more knowledge you have, the better able you will be to tackle any obstacles and challenges that will come your way.
SERPs Is The Only Opinion That Counts
And like most webmasters, I try to find out as much about Google as is humanly possible, but Google doesn't give up its secrets easily. In fact, many webmasters would argue the only true opinion Google has of your site is shown in their SERPs - if your keywords/pages are ranked in the number one spots in Google's "Search Engine Results Pages" then Google must think your site or content deserves to be there.
However, there are other ways of finding out how Google is viewing your content. Below are several Google webmaster tools and things you can do to discover just how Google views your site or pages. They will give you a better picture of what Google thinks about your site.
Checking Your Content/Keywords In Google
One handy tool that will show you what Google thinks your pages consist of is located here:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Just type in your URL and tick off website content and you will get a listing of the major keywords Google has for your content. If your targeted keyword or keywords are not listed, then you have to do some re-writing.
Checking Your Backlinks In Google
If you want to find out how many backlinks your site has in Google, just open up Google Search and type in:
link:yourURL
and it will show you the number of backlinks you have.
Since Google doesn't give you all your existing backlinks, many webmasters also use Yahoo! to find a more exact number of links your site has on the web.
Just open Yahoo! and type in: linkdomain:yourURL
Now whether Google is using or considering all these backlinks is the big question? Finding the exact number of backlinks you have in Google has always been a problem because Google is not giving you the exact number or at least this is the general opinion of most SEO experts.
Another way I monitor my links in Google is to place quotation marks around my site name or my name "bizwaremagic" or "titus hoskins" and do a search in Google. This gives me the pages containing references to me or my site. This is usually 50,000 to 100,000 pages, I have also noticed my online income usually correlates as this number goes up or down.
Checking Your Indexed Pages In Google
Obviously, it is very important for you to know what content the search engines have indexed from your site. You can also check to see how your links are displayed and to see if any titles or descriptions are missing from your pages.
You can see how many of your pages are indexed in Google by using the site command.
Just type into Google Search:
site:yourURL
A little while back, having your pages indexed in Google's Supplemental Index caused webmasters much stress as it seemed Google was judging these pages as "second class" pages. Since then, Google no longer uses the Supplementary Label in grading pages but that doesn't mean a supplementary index doesn't exist; just that Google has promised to crawl and consider these pages as well in any search query.
Checking Your Google Cache
You can also check to see the Google Cache of your site by using the cache command. You will also discover when it was last retrieved.
Just type into Google Search:
cache:yourURL
Checking Your PageRank Within Google
Another tricky issue is PageRank. This is supposed to be the heart of Google's ranking system created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin; each link is considered a "vote" for your page and the higher the number of "votes" you have, the higher the PR your page receives. However, again Google is using "smoke and mirrors" to conceal your true PageRank mainly to cut out abuse and manipulation of their results. Some experts say PageRank still counts, other say it doesn't.
You can check your Google PageRank here:
http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker
From my own experiences, I have receíved more traffic when my site was at PR4 than I receíved when it was at PR6. What's important is getting high rankings for your targeted keywords... if you get top spots, it doesn't matter if your main index page (site) is PR4 or PR6, you'll still get the same amount of traffic. In other words, don't become too fixated on PageRank because Google in many cases is not letting you see the true PR of a webpage.
I would like to add one point to the whole PageRank issue and that has to do with perception. If you're running an online business, then having a PR8 site does matter for it will bring in more business and customers (especially if you're in the SEO industry) mainly because of the "perceived value" of your site or business.
What Google thinks does matter!
In other words, what Google thinks of your site can play a major role in your success. Mainly because, like it or hate it, Google has become the supreme authority on the web and what they say, counts. Therefore, you should always be paying special attention to just what Google is saying about your site and acting upon that knowledge accordingly.
Accounting outsourcing - what is it?
The services that provide such firms, limited only by your financial capabilities. Thus, the company can develop your accounting policies, draw up a balance sheet, arrange bank documents or completely take over the entire accounting.
Article 6 of Federal Law 21.11.1996 № 129 - Federal Law (Ed. from 03.11.2006) "On Accounting" reads as follows:
The responsibility for organizing the accounting organizations, law enforcement in carrying out business transactions have the heads of organizations.
Leaders of organizations may, depending on the volume of accounting work:
a). to establish an accounting service as a structural unit, headed by a chief accountant;
b). put in state office accountant
c). transmit on a contract basis accounting centralized accounting, a specialized organization or accountant-specialist;
g). maintain accounting records personally
So, what attracts outsourcing?
First, there is a real cost savings. If you fully entrust your accounting firm third-party company, you have no need to include its accounting. Hence, no need to equip jobs, pay wages bookkeeper, to acquire special software and books, stationery. Add to all listed above accountant must continuously improve their professional level, attending various seminars and refresher courses, and this entails additional costs.
In so doing, are also minimizing the state, which is particularly important for small businesses. Secondly, external accounting independence and objectivity. Ie independent of their employees with access to financial and economic activities of the organization, and able, in consequence, affect the welfare of business, especially in the case of dismissal and conflicts. And what little is not important, you strahuetes of labour disputes involving layoffs specialists.
Next, transmit such accounting firm can be at any stage, and in any condition. For example, if your chief accountant resigned itself to letting the balance, and the search for a new specialist you simply do not have the time, it is a good way out of the situation. Then, accounting outsourcing solves the problem of care and disease on holiday staffing accountant, and, consequently, retains full control over financial and economic activities of businesses throughout the year.
Next, the company carries out professional-stop processing of documentation specialists profile that minimizes the risk of penalties by the tax authorities.
And finally, if accounting documents stored in outsourcing companies, the tax will not check to you, and in-office outsourcing. Also I would like to note that, referring to the company-outsourcing, you get not one chief accountant and a staff of highly qualified professionals who work as a single mechanism debugged. In addition to the above, the availability of external accounting convenient to the implementation of investment projects, where an investor and manager - not the same person. In this case, easier to ensure the independence of accounting and impose controls on the "development investment".
Thus, the beneficial accounting outsourcing and those just starting their own business (no need to spend valuable time searching for an accountant, but simply refer to the company-outsourcing, which put the accounting in such a manner as required by our legislation and how it wants to see Head of the organization), and investors who are interested in independent monitoring the investment project, and those who must rebuild accounting or reduce its costs. The advantages of outsourcing accounting, as we can see a lot. But do not forget and disadvantages. The most important of which is the risk of information leakage. Therefore, many heads of organizations with distrust among the outsourcing companies.
In this regard, I would like to talk about the most important criteria that should guide the choice of outsourcing company.
Outsourcing company must guarantee the confidentiality of information, be responsible for the work done, which in turn is reflected in the contract. But should not forget the responsibility that rests squarely on the client: outsourcing company is responsible for the quality and timely implementation of the work assigned to it, for the accuracy, completeness and timely provision of background documentation responsibility rests squarely on the customer.
It is desirable that this was a legal entity. As experienced and highly qualified professionals prefer to work in organizations with the status yur.litsa. The reasons for this are several:
A). Yur.litso unlike IP (unfortunately this is the reality of our times) more often, and willingly work to declare. Accordingly, appreciating a specialist receives a guaranteed sots.paket and acceptable for themselves c / o p
B). In the eyes of customers (from nowhere this is not children - is psychology), compared with enterprise IP even sounds solid, reliable and stable.
The company must provide an integrated service. For example, accounting, legal services, software, training and recruitment. Accountant and a lawyer often work together, that is help each other in solving specific problems (for example, work with the treaties, tax disputes). Installing and upgrading accounting programs is a specialist in software.
Meanwhile, organizations, which in connection with their dynamic development and growth there is a need for staffing accountants, company-outsourcing is preparing the necessary specialist. In this case, perhaps two options: either to stop trains, prepares a specialist in relation to the specific work of the organization, either by picks, performing the role of human agency.
We practiced teaching small groups on specific issues of interest to customers.
May be considered the theme: the use spetsrezhimov, optimization of taxation. The course of training may include selected topics and not specifically related to accounting: the foundation of marketing, management, law, psychology of relationships in the team. Our experts can visit the company to train new employees on a coherent theme. Ie is produced in such a way that client, turning into one company, receives a sufficiently wide range of services.
A contingent of personnel outsourcing company to be uneven - ranging from the energetic young professionals with modern knowledge in the areas of finance, and ending with more mature but no less vigorous, professionals with extensive experience.
Seven Outsourcing Billionaires
Outsourcing and offshoring are two similar concepts that are often lumped together. By definition, the former is to purchase or subcontract from an outside source; the latter, on the other hand, can be done both within and outside a company.
By contrast, India's offshore outsourcers have made their billions through software services. Wipro (nyse: WIT - news - people ), Infosys Technologies (nasdaq: INFY - news - people ) and HCL Technologies all have C-level executives who have worked their way to 10-plus digits through companies that provide global software and IT services.
"The economics behind offshoring are really compelling, and customers usually do it for three reasons--they want specialized firms, [they want] to cut costs, and [they want] access to talent or specialized skills," said Robert Kennedy, a professor at the University of Michigan Business School.
The executive director of the William Davidson Institute, a nonprofit research and educational institute dedicated to the changes affecting companies in transition and in emerging market economies, Kennedy points out that it's often contract manufacturing businesses that offshore. These businesses have a need for specialized companies like Quanta or Hon Hai, and companies looking for software services are generally more focused on reducing costs and finding fresh talent.
There is such a rapid development of capital markets in other countries that even small discrepancies in salary and the cost of labor are significant. These billionaires have capitalized on the fact that developing countries are growing two to three times as quickly as countries like the U.S., essentially fueling an offshore outsourcing trend whose expansion appears to have few boundaries.
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of the hugely successful BBC iPlayer – a complaint that has
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The irony is not lost on those who recall the early days of
broadband, when ISPs accused content providers of doing too
little to provide sites that would encourage users to upgrade
from dial-up connections.
But now the father of web gurus, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has raised
another arterial issue – that the problem is not too much content,
but too much useless content.
Berners-Lee fears that the internet will lose credibility as a
business and consumer tool because of the spread of false,
misleading or simply annoying information – the web equivalent
of spam for email. Would you really trust Wikipedia as a
100 per cent reliable source, for example?
All these debates are inevitable for what is, after all, a
very young technology in terms of mainstream use. Barely 10
years ago the internet was unheard of outside of tech-savvy
circles. Ten years after the car was invented, people still
thought it necessary to walk in front of them waving a red
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The reality is that the internet shows no signs of slowing
down in either popularity or connectivity. The government and
the telecoms industry are slowly waking up to the need to
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There is no need for a healthcheck yet. IT leaders need to be
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M&S appeals against data protection ruling
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Online guide curtails JPA teething troubles
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) says installing an online help
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Misinformation tangles web
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The spread of false or misleading information on the internet could
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US seeks intrusive copyright powers
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Small businesses make up around 80 per cent of the UK's companies and
are often at the vanguard of new ways and styles of working. It was
small businesses that first started implementing home working and
distributed teams.
It is smaller businesses now that are leading the way in the green
revolution, since they are nimble enough to change quickly and don't
have a cumbersome infrastructure to change or upgrade.
So in among all the new research funding initiatives let's put some
money aside to investigate how small businesses can help the rest of
us by pioneering different ways to work.
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Phoenix lands safely on Mars
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Unlike the ill-starred Beagle probe, Phoenix has started broadcasting
from the surface of the red planet. In fact only five of the past 11
Mars missions have successfully made it to the surface intact.
The probe will now unfold its seven-foot robotic arm and begin
burrowing under the surface for the permafrost to search for water
and possible signs of life.
The programme manager described Phoenix as an amazing machine and
that its search for life on Mars could yield truly amazing results.
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