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A global patchwork of conflicting laws and regulations could hobble the growth of the cloud computing market, according to a new study. http://phys.org/news249110804.html Technology Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:00:01 EST news249110804 Chinese Internet company Alibaba on Tuesday posted a net profit of 1.71 billion yuan ($271.48 million) in 2011, up 16.6 percent over the previous year, but with weakness in the fourth quarter. http://phys.org/news249029911.html Technology Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:58:39 EST news249029911 (AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co. reported a 17 percent jump in fourth quarter profit on the strength of smartphone sales even as the company battled claims it had copied Apple's iPhone. http://phys.org/news246858887.html Technology Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:10:01 EST news246858887 Israel Vasquez, 12, has no computer or Internet access at home, but he needs both to do his homework. http://phys.org/news246635811.html Technology Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:00:01 EST news246635811 An increase in female representation in local politics has caused a significant rise in documented crimes against women in India, new research has found. http://phys.org/news243512776.html Other Sciences Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:26:32 EST news243512776 Researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard University have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called MINE, it can tease out multiple patterns hidden in health information from around the globe, statistics amassed from a season of major league baseball, data on the changing bacterial landscape of the gut, and much more. The researchers report their findings in a paper appearing in the December 16 issue of the journal Science. http://phys.org/news243178847.html Technology Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:00:02 EST news243178847 (AP) -- Even in hard times, fighting climate change is not a luxury but a necessity, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday, as climate negotiators bickered about how to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to adapt to a warming world. http://phys.org/news242484318.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:45:26 EST news242484318 The Olympic Games are big business and generate substantial amounts of revenue for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) through lucrative television contracts and corporate sponsorship. The Games are now also widely perceived as important promotional opportunities for cities seeking to reinforce their claims as 'world class' destinations for tourists and capital in the global economy. http://phys.org/news241189929.html Other Sciences Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:12:17 EST news241189929 South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom said Monday it signed a deal to buy a controlling stake in Hynix Semiconductor, the world's number two memory chip maker. http://phys.org/news240467212.html Technology Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:27:14 EST news240467212 South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom has submitted a final bid to buy a controlling stake in Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, a report said Thursday. http://phys.org/news240122556.html Technology Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:42:44 EST news240122556 Federal regulators have unveiled a plan for overhauling the $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service in rural areas and for the poor. It redirects the money toward broadband expansion. http://phys.org/news238945068.html Technology Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:37:58 EST news238945068 (AP) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chip maker, said Thursday its earnings dropped by more than a third in the latest quarter amid uncertainties about the global economy. http://phys.org/news238921257.html Technology Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:01:11 EST news238921257 South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, said Thursday it swung to a third-quarter net loss as weak demand for personal computers dampened sales. http://phys.org/news238907604.html Technology Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:30:01 EST news238907604 Credit ratings agency Moody's on Thursday downgraded its outlook on South Korea's LG Electronics to negative, saying its position in the mobile phone business has weakened considerably. http://phys.org/news237713148.html Technology Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:25:54 EST news237713148 Indian software giant Infosys on Wednesday said quarterly profit rose by nearly 10 percent, powering its shares upwards as investors ignored a warning about an uncertain global market. http://phys.org/news237615141.html Technology Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:12:31 EST news237615141 Research from the University of Warwick suggests the 19th Century 'protestant work ethic' could have given the economies of northern Europe a head start on their southern neighbours, and is still shaping popular northern European feeling that rankles against bailing out struggling southerners. http://phys.org/news236510159.html Other Sciences Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:16:13 EST news236510159 Germany's parliament Friday blocked a law allowing the storage of carbon dioxide underground, as Europe's top economy wrangles over energy policy following Japan's nuclear disaster. http://phys.org/news235997680.html Technology Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:55:13 EST news235997680 Turning to mathematics to allow us to make smarter conservation decisions. http://phys.org/news235899481.html Other Sciences Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:40:01 EST news235899481 A cover article in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs by the University of Sydney's Dr. Salvatore Babones outlines why predictions by economists that China will continue to experience rapid growth throughout the coming decades may be seriously flawed. http://phys.org/news233317768.html Other Sciences Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:29:43 EST news233317768 With the global economy in a state of unrest, saving money seems to be an obvious strategy for households to protect themselves. But are global households saving enough? Researchers at the University of Missouri have compared savings habits of households from two of the world's most powerful economies: China and the United States. Rui Yao, an assistant professor in the personal financial planning department in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Missouri, found that urban Chinese households, on average, save much more than American households. She says the difference stems from saving motives. http://phys.org/news232299286.html Other Sciences Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:35:08 EST news232299286 A new report commissioned by the New York Times, shows that electricity consumption used by data centers in the United States and around the world grew at a much slower pace then was predicted by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report released in 2007. The slower pace is attributed to both a downturn in the economy and improved efficiency in data servers. http://phys.org/news231495757.html Technology Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:30:07 EST news231495757 Research from Jack McCann of Lincoln Memorial University, in Tennessee, suggests that China could become the dominant economic power within a few years if it exploits the competitive advantages it is creating politically, culturally, legally and economically. http://phys.org/news229084190.html Other Sciences Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:30:01 EST news229084190 A group of top US venture capitalists has written a letter to the US Congress opposing a bill aimed at cracking down on websites selling pirated and counterfeit goods. http://phys.org/news228144098.html Technology Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:22:39 EST news228144098 (AP) -- Nearly two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global economy of trillions of dollars, according to U.N. estimates and preliminary results of a new study. http://phys.org/news227875091.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:38:19 EST news227875091 (AP) -- It's starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. Internet companies - some of them profitable, some not - sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go public this year. http://phys.org/news227551179.html Technology Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:10:02 EST news227551179 The remote valley of Mesohori in northeastern Greece seems an unusual choice for a stand against genetically modified crop conglomerates who are knocking on Europe's door. http://phys.org/news224676844.html Biology Sun, 15 May 2011 11:14:13 EST news224676844 The global economy depends on marine transportation. But in addition to cargo, the world's 50,000-plus commercial ships carry tiny stowaways that can cause huge problems for the environment and economy. A new model created by Smithsonian scientists will facilitate accurate screening of vessels for dangerous species before they unload. The team's findings are published today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. http://phys.org/news220522877.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:21:47 EST news220522877 The economic aftershocks from the massive earthquake off the coast of Japan, the resulting tsunami and a feared nuclear meltdown could hit global production of everything from aircraft to iPads. http://phys.org/news219387032.html Technology Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:11:20 EST news219387032 China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the United States and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said Friday. http://phys.org/news217349898.html Other Sciences Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:00:02 EST news217349898 (AP) -- Businesses, especially U.S. ones, must get more involved in the global effort to slow climate change and help pressure politicians to enact policies that promote green growth, international leaders said Thursday. http://phys.org/news215361446.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:50:02 EST news215361446