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The Cyber Gossip War on China

Via the Dark Visitor, another headline blaring that Chinese hackers are on the verge of undermining all of Western civilization: EXCLUSIVE: Cyber-Hackers Break Into IMF Computer System. Anonymous IMF sources tell Fox reporter...

Hollinger Inc.: Settlement of Shareholder Class Action Receives Preliminary Approval of Ontario...

TORONTO, ONTARIO, November 16 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Hollinger Inc. ("Hollinger") (TSX: HLG.C)(TSX: HLG.PR.B) announced today that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the "Ontario Court") issued an order on November 14, 2008...

Council mergers ensure viability: report

The Sydney Chamber of Commerce is calling for more council amalgamations to ensure their ongoing financial viability. A KPMG report, commissioned by the chamber, has found a significant reduction in the number of councils would...

Out of network area

Sangeeta Singh is the executive director, human resources at consultancy firm KPMG’s Mumbai branch. When she started working some 26 years ago, Singh recalls, she unearthed an unwritten rule: when her male colleagues went out...

Goods carriers feel the heat of meltdown

See a 20-30% fall in volumes over last 3 months; vehicle network underutilised. Shubhra Tandon Mumbai, Nov. 16 The effects of the global economic meltdown are being felt by the domestic surface transportation industry as well....

The silver lining

A search for ‘outsourcing’ in Google News predictably yields many sob tales. Sample these: ‘Hiring slows for Indian IT services and call centres,’ announces PC World. ‘Nasscom positive about India’s A search for ‘outsourcing’...

SupportSoft Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

November 16, 2008 | about stocks: Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript Executives Anne-Marie Eileraas – VP and General Counsel Shelly Schaffer – CFO and EVP of Finance Josh Pickus – President and CEO Analysts Jon Maietta – Needham...

PRESS DIGEST-Australian Business News - Nov 17 (AFX)

Compiled for Reuters by Media Monitors. THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW (www.afr.com) --The largest buyer of Australian wines in the United Kingdom (UK), supermarket and liquor retailer Tesco (LSE: TSCO.L - news) , has imposed...

Sustainability driven by innovation not cost: Food Business Summit survey

Recently released research by KPMG International and CIES reveals that, far from regarding corporate responsibility as a cost, many leading retailers and manufacturers see sustainability as: • a driver of innovation that can...

New pay rules for bosses

Company execs may in future have to do more to prove that they earn their remuneration packages. The fixed income market is pricing in a total of 300 basis points of rate cuts over the next two years, but analysts feel this...