United Nations and Business - Information about UN development project partnerships with the private sector and foundations, guidelines for doing business with the UN, issues statements, fact sheets, and other materials. -- http://www.un.org/partners/business/index.asp Business: Business and Society(6)
MBendi: Information for Africa - African business and financial news portal also provides a business directory with free listings organized by country and business sector, and information on industries, employment and opportunities. -- http://www.mbendi.com/ Regional: Africa: Business and Economy(3)
Visio - Microsoft software product for creating a wide variety of business and technical drawings. Features many built-in shapes and templates, a programmable API, and a wide selection of 3rd party add-ons. -- http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio/ Computers: Software: Business Drawing(1)
Essential Systems - Offers network consulting, software development, systems integration, and training services. Producers of GOPASS, Paycaster, and ToolSentry business and security applications. -- http://www.essensys.com/ Computers: Consultants: Business Systems(2)
An Internet firm specializing in crystal balls, tarot readings, I-ching and horoscopes is raking in business as Japanese seek reassurance about the future in the midst of a global financial crisis.
Stories about Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein are featured in December issues of business magazines. On TV, look for shows Secret Millionaire and The Money Chase: Inside Harvard Business School. and Eugene Ludwig, former Comptroller of the Currency, answers five questions.
Barbara Kiviat has a piece today on how ordinary schlubs like you and me now have a Rare Opportunity to buy mutual funds which until recently were closed to new investors: It's been years since anyone without an existing account could put money into some of the best-known names in the business, like Sequoia Fund, Dodge & Cox Stock, Longleaf Partners, Fidelity Magellan, Artisan Mid Cap Value, ...
Mumbai is trying to limp back to normalcy after terrorist attacks last week left around 195 dead, and close to 300 injured. But there are questions whether foreigners will continue to take the risk of doing business in the city and the rest of the country, which have faced repeated terrorist attacks in the past.
SLOUGH, England, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- British firefighters Monday were battling a blaze caused by an explosion at a plastics and chemical plant in a Slough-area business park.
Investment firm Blackstone Group and CMS Group, an information technology services provider, are teaming up to create a new infrastructure management and outsourced business services company, Blackstone said Monday.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Nthato Motlana , doctor to Nelson Mandela and a pioneer of black empowerment in South African business, has died. He was 83. Motlana died yesterday after a long battle with cancer, the Johannesburg-based Nelson Mandela Foundation said in an e-mailed statement today.
The Maryland Business Roundtable for Education unveiled a three-year plan Monday to help double the number of Maryland high school graduates ready for college or the work force.
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Unity Life of Canada has an agreement to acquire the individual insurance business of Washington National Insurance Co.'s Canadian branch for an undisclosed price.
- Microsoft software product for creating a wide variety of business and technical drawings. Features many built-in shapes and templates, a programmable API, and a wide selection of 3rd party add-ons.