Archive for February 2nd, 2010
Sun Jiadong, Father of China's Satellite Technology
Reporters learned from the China News that the 2009 National Science and Technology Award was revealed on the morning of January 11, and Sun Jiadong, a member of the China Academy of Science and one of the founding fathers of the “Two Bombs, One Satellite” and also a senior aerospace expert, received the award. as [...]
Forget Gold, Buy The Unexpected
Ken Fisher, founder and chief executive of Fisher Investments, is a 25-year Forbes columnist and a New York Times bestselling author.
Fisher: So I think an important thing about 2010 is that we’re at a state today where the combined so-called emerging markets countries in collective GDP are half again as big as the United States. [...]
HSBC Said to Consider China Bank Bid
HSBC is considering a bid for a major Chinese bank to reinforce its presence in the country as other foreign lenders retrench, The Sunday Telegraph reported, citing unnamed sources.
The Telegraph said HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, wants to buy a majority stake in one of China’s big three lenders — Industrial and Commercial Bank of [...]
DEALTALK-Blackstone UK bank seeks lasting gain from lending
* Blackstone helps funding start-up bank
* Goal is to build up depositor-funded mortgage lender
* Cambridge Place’s Martin “Marty” Finegold driving force
* Seeking a million clients in five years’ time
LONDON, Jan 29 – Blackstone’s <BX.N> foray into UK banking seeks to profit from a sector in distress, just like one of private equity’s most lucrative deals [...]
Current Tendencies of Bank Deposits
(Source: Info-Prod Research (Middle East))Total volume of deposits in the country’s banking sector(including term deposits and current accounts of non-financial andhouseholds sectors, including payable interest) increased by 8.4percent or 266.5 million GEL compared to the previous month andexceeded 3.4 billion GEL by January 1, 2010. in December, the volumeof current accounts of non-financial and households [...]
New CartikaCloud.com Launched by CartikaHosting Offers Self Healing …
Cartika recently launched its newest CartikaCloud.com services. CartikaCloud boasts self healing servers, powerful NetApp based Cloud Storage Systems and advanced features including utility based billing, Cartika complete management services, predictive failure analysis, Citrix Xenserver Technology, NetApp based Cloud Storage Systems, Citrix Netscaler Load Balancing Technology, R1Soft CDP backup and recovery solutions and CloudLinux Operating [...]
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