The US welcomes India’s greater involvement in East Asia and is committed to working with New Delhi as it increases ties with US allies in Southeast Asia and Japan, a senior US official has said. “Ultimately, we think that India’s role in the Asian-Pacific region stands to be one of the most important new developments [...]
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US welcomes emerging India’s role in Asia Pacific
February 3rd, 2011 |
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New terror modules emerging: Chidambaram
February 1st, 2011 |
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Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday said new terror groups were emerging and there was no room for complacency even though the internal security situation in the country had vastly improved in the past year. Addressing the fourth chief ministers’ conference on internal security here, Chidambaram said: “A number of modules (of terrorists) are active. New [...]
Sponsored Content: Meeting Today`s Evolving and Emerging Business Intelligence Requirements
December 15th, 2010 |
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The explosive growth in unstructured data, much of it coming from new sources like social networks and smart devices; more demanding user requirements for easy-to-use yet more sophisticated business analytics and visualization tools; and the need to support new deployment options, such as cloud and SaaS, are rapidly altering the business intelligence landscape. This slideshow looks at the technology behind IBMs new Cognos 10 and how this suite can help organizations meet their evolving business intelligence requirements. – Â …
Low-Cost Phone Market to Pick Up, Driven by Emerging Economies: ABI
December 15th, 2010 |
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While smartphone sales are booming, low-cost and ultra-low-cost handsets are also expected to turn upward, says ABI, thanks to first-time users in China, India, Africa and Latin America. – Smartphone sales may be surging, but the opposite end of the handset
market is also expected to rise, fueled by emerging economies such as
those in China, India, Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia, ABI
Research reported Dec. 14.
With economies beginning to rebound from the global recession…
WikiLeaks Emerging as Hydra-Like Web Entity That’s Hard to Kill
December 9th, 2010 |
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Even as WikiLeaks continues to publish its thousands of leaked cables from U.S. diplomats the site is taking steps to stay online despite repeated cyber-attacks, canceled services and government action. – WikiLeaks keeps finding ways to stay online even as it
gets hit with repeated denial-of-service
attacks aimed at keeping people from accessing the site and despite
decisions by technology and financial companies to terminate essential
services.
With each passing day it’s getting harder to shu…
Drivers emerging for sustained O&M rise: Citigroup
November 19th, 2010 |
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Citigroup says drivers emerging for sustained upswing in offshore & marine sector; “a strong pickup in rig demand, strength in FPSOs and high margin rig upgrade suggests the orderbook has troughed and is poised for recovery.”
Tips contract wins could double in 2011-2012 vs 2010, reach $4.5–$5 billion.
“Should Petrobras wins materialise, a level above the 2007-2008 peak cycle would be possible.”
CompTIA Study Finds IT Managers Struggle to Solve Emerging Threats
November 18th, 2010 |
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IT executives consider information security as high priority but struggle to develop policies to deal with emerging threats from social networking sites, mobile devices and the cloud. – IT managers are ranking information security as high IT priority within their
organizations, but more training and better policies are necessary to protect them
from new threats, according to survey results released by CompTIA on Nov. 18.
CompTIA’s Global Security Trends, an annual report examini…
Emerging market investment should be top of agenda, Israel says
November 16th, 2010 |
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Temasek Holdings Executive Director Simon Israel said investing in emerging markets will have to move to the top of the agenda for investors. Israel, speaking at an event organized by CapitaLand Ltd. in Singapore today, said there is a fundamental shift toward the rise of Asia and its importance in economic power.
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Temasek buys stake in Odebrecht unit in emerging markets plan
October 20th, 2010 |
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Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s state investment company, paid US$400 million ($525 million) for a 14.3% stake in the oil services unit of Brazil’s Odebrecht SA as it increases its focus on emerging markets.
The investment in Rio de Janeiro-based Odebrecht Oil & Gas comes after Temasek opened offices in Mexico City and Sao Paulo about two years ago. The company also has investments in Brazilian real estate and retail companies.
GIC favours emerging market property, private equity: Update
September 29th, 2010 |
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Government of Singapore Investment Corp., manager of more than US$100 billion ($131.7 billion) of reserves, said real estate and private equity in emerging economies will present more rewarding opportunities than equity markets.
“While publicly listed equities is likely to remain GIC’s main implementation vehicle for our emerging market strategy, our view is that the private markets such as real estate and private equities will present even more rewarding opportunities,” GIC’s Chief Investment Officer Ng Kok Song said at a private wealth management conference in Singapore today.
GIC sees opportunities in emerging property, private equity
September 29th, 2010 |
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Government of Singapore Investment Corp., manager of more than $100 billion of reserves, said real estate and private equity in emerging economies will present more rewarding opportunities than equity markets.
“While publicly listed equities is likely to remain GIC’s main implementation vehicle for our emerging market strategy, our view is that the private markets such as real estate and private equities will present even more rewarding opportunities,” GIC’s Chief Investment Officer Ng Kok Song said at a private wealth management conference in Singapore today.
Singapore GIC ups stock holdings, focus on emerging mkts
September 27th, 2010 |
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The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) said on Monday it will increase its investments in emerging markets after a strong performance in 2009/2010 when it offset losses incurred in the previous year.
GIC, which manages in excess of US$200 billion ($264.4 billion) according to most analysts’ estimates, said in a report for the year ended March 2010 its average annual return over the past 20 years rose to 7.1% in dollar terms, from 5.7% a year ago.
Mobile internet in emerging markets: The next billion geeks
September 2nd, 2010 |
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How the mobile internet will transform the BRICI countries
BUYING a mobile phone was the wisest $20 Ranvir Singh ever spent. Mr Singh, a farmer in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, used to make appointments in person, in advance, to deliver fresh buffalo milk to his 40-odd neighbours. Now his customers just call when they want some. Mr Singh’s income has risen by 25%, to 7,000 rupees ($149) a month. And he hears rumours of an even more bountiful technology. He has heard that “something on mobile phones” can tell him the current market price of his wheat. Mr Singh does not know that that “something” is the internet, because, like most Indians, he has never seen or used it. But the phone in his calloused hand hints at how hundreds of millions of people in emerging markets—perhaps even billions—will one day log on.
Only 81m Indians (7% of the population) regularly use the internet. But brutal price wars mean that 507m own mobile phones. Calls cost as little as $0.006 per minute. Indian operators such as Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications sign up 20m new subscribers a month. …
Emerging infections: No good deed goes unpunished
September 2nd, 2010 |
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Smallpox has gone, but monkeypox is now rearing its ugly head
ONE of the greatest public-health victories of the last century was the eradication of smallpox. After the disease was pronounced extinct, in 1980, people stopped using the smallpox vaccine. That seemed the ultimate symbol of technology’s triumph over a medieval scourge.
Alas, it turns out that the end of vaccination has unleashed new demons. Researchers have long suspected that smallpox vaccine also provides protection against diseases such as monkeypox and cowpox, and three decades ago a committee of experts weighed up whether ending vaccination for smallpox might allow one of those diseases to spread in humans. They decided this was unlikely. Now, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests they may have been wrong. A team led by Anne Rimoin of the University of California, Los Angeles, conducted surveys of people living in the centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo. They found a dramatic surge in monkeypox—a disease which, though not as bad as smallpox, kills up to 10% of those it infects. …
Japanese firms push into emerging markets: The new frontier for corporate Japan
August 5th, 2010 |
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Japan once prospered by exporting to rich countries. Now the action is elsewhere
IT IS the “new frontier”, says Japan’s trade ministry. Japanese firms have at last noticed that emerging markets are growing much faster than rich ones. And though they were late to the dance, they have brought some nifty moves.
Profits at Japan’s 559 major listed companies surged by 46% in the most recent quarter, to YEN3.8 trillion ($44 billion), according to Nikkei, a financial-information provider. That is a fourfold increase from a year ago, and largely due to soaring sales in emerging markets. …
Internet investment’s new champions: The emerging online giants
July 8th, 2010 |
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DST, Naspers and Tencent have made promising internet investments in many emerging markets. Now even Western internet financiers are emulating them
THEY may not have the name recognition of a Google or a Yahoo!, but they can claim to belong in the same league. The websites of Digital Sky Technologies (DST) account for more than 70% of page-views on the Russian-language internet. Naspers is Africa’s biggest media group, both offline and online. And Tencent is China’s largest internet company by market capitalisation—and the third-largest in the world.
Now these firms are increasingly making their presence felt beyond their home markets. Between them they have invested in dozens of internet firms around the globe. The most adventurous of the three, DST, has already moved west—and paid top dollar for stakes in fast-growing American companies, notably Facebook, the world’s biggest social network. …
SIA off 1.2%; headwinds emerging from Europe, says CLSA
May 19th, 2010 |
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Singapore Airlines (C6L.SG) is off 1.2% at $14.42 in thin trade, unable to shake off recent sluggish performance, as investors reluctant to commit ahead of carrier’s March-quarter results, guidance for coming quarters due this Friday, according to Dow Jones.