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| GERMANY OFFERS EUR 1 MILLION TO WTO TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | Germany has donated EUR 1 million (about CHF 1.5 million) to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF) for the year 2010. Germany is one of the biggest donors to this fund. With this latest donation, its total contribution to the various WTO trust funds has reached CHF 17.2 million. | | Published in 04-02-2010 by WTO Press Releases |
| 2009 AT FINESTI | Finesti, the Luxembourg-based data agency for investment funds and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, increased the use of its services in 2009. | | Published in 21-01-2010 by Bourse de Luxembourg / Finesti |
| CROSS-STRAIT FLIGHTS UPPED FOR LUNAR NEW YEAR | More direct flight services were to be offered between Taiwan and mainland China during the 2010 Chinese New Year holidays, Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration announced Dec. 25. | | Published in 11-01-2010 by Taiwan – Today - Economic Daily News |
| NAG ENABLES SIGNIFICANT MULTICORE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS ON HECTOR | The Numerical Algorithms Group announced, end 2009, new HPC performance milestones including up to 4 times better performance with multicore optimization for materials science and quantum Monte Carlo applications and reductions of up to 25% in runtimes with I/O tuning for an ocean modelling application. These are the early results of NAG’s distributed Computational Science and Engineering (dCSE) support program for HECToR (UK’s national supercomputing facility), which now consists of over 30 dedcated application optimization projects complementing the traditional HPC user support provided | | Published in 04-01-2010 by NAG |
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| TOXIC CULTURES DRIVE POOR PERFORMANCE, CLAIMS AMNIS | From its many years of experience of working with a wide range of organisations, Amnis believes that toxic cultures - which can be identified as having a general lack of respect for people, a strong people hierarchy, discord in the senior team and disengaged managers - are significantly affecting performance in some healthcare organisations. | | Published in 03-02-2010 by Ruth Bodman, Amnis |
| CORPORATE COUNSEL PROFILE: DAVID SISLOWSKI, FRONTIER AIRLINES | David Sislowski is Vice President, Administration and General Counsel of Frontier Airlines. In an era of significant financial and marketing challenges for the airline industry as a whole, Sislowski talks about the continuing success of Frontier and his role in managing legal risks. This interview appears in the July 2004 issue of the Faegre & Benson publication Trends. | | Published in 09-07-2004 by Faegre&Benson |
| PLANNING AND COMPULSORY PURCHASE BILL | Stop Press! Changes to time limits for lodging planning appeals New regulations in force from 5 September 2003 reduce the time limit for lodging planning appeals from 6 to 3 months of the decision or the expiry of the decision period, including appeals against listed building and conservation area consent. | | Published in 12-09-2003 by Katherine Evans |
| DEVELOPING AND PROTECTING YOUR BRAND | Customers in today's market are increasingly bombarded with brands. As markets mature and consumers become more savvy, it is increasingly important for companies to seek ways to differentiate their brands. Yet as companies spend more on branding, not many protect this investment at the outset. A company may only look to protect its investment at a later stage when problems arise. | | Published in 22-08-2003 by James Touzel |
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| ECONOMIC CRISIS: LATE PAYMENTS ENDANGERING SMES. OTHMAR KARAS MEP | "Late payment, especially by the public sector, is causing massive problems of liquidity for our small and medium-sized enterprises all over Europe, adding to the consequences of the financial and economic crisis", warned EPP Vice-Chairman Othmar Karas MEP, EPP Group Coordinator in the Special Committee on the Financial Crisis (CRIS). | | Published in 02-02-2010 by EPP Group Press & Communications Service |
| SES ENTERS MARITIME MARKET WITH ASTRA2CONNECT | Low-cost satellite-based broadband for commercial and leisure ships
Luxembourg, September 23rd, 2009. – SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock
Exchange: SESG) , announced today that it has expanded the market for its successful
satellite-based interactive broadband service ASTRA2Connect, and is now offering the
service in the maritime market to commercial fleets and leisure yachts operating mainly in
the North and Baltic Seas, and the northern Mediterranean. | | Published in 23-09-2009 by SES |
| JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE IN CASE MARS INC. V OHIM | The shape of the Bounty chocolate bar may not be registered as a community trade mark . The three-dimensional shape of the bar is devoid of any distinctive character and Mars has not proved that the shape has acquired distinctive character through use in the entire Community.
| | Published in 08-07-2009 by curia.europa.eu |
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