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Taiwanese technology giant Hon Hai Precision has postponed construction of a mobile phone factory in Indonesia which was to have begun by the end of this year, a report said Thursday. http://phys.org/news274001597.html Technology Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:33:24 EST news274001597 Google is investing $75 million in an Iowa wind farm as part of its effort to encourage development of cleaner energy sources. http://phys.org/news272199889.html Technology Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:30:01 EST news272199889 Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG says it will cut back on investment plans and introduce short-time working as global economic uncertainty weighs on demand and revenue. http://phys.org/news272090506.html Technology Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:30:01 EST news272090506 (AP)—Telecom Italia shares rose 6 percent after the former monopoly confirmed that an Egyptian tycoon has expressed interest in investing in the Italian company. http://phys.org/news271926686.html Technology Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:11:33 EST news271926686 U.S.-Israeli electric car venture Better Place says investors have pledged it $100 million in additional financing. http://phys.org/news270986243.html Technology Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:20:01 EST news270986243 The angel investor market in the first two quarters of 2012 showed signs of steady recovery since the correction in the second half of 2008 and the first half of 2009, with total investments at $9.2 billion, an increase of 3.1 percent over the same period in 2011, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. http://phys.org/news269086915.html Other Sciences Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:22:16 EST news269086915 (AP)—A man who ran a Ponzi scheme disguised as an online advertising company has been sentenced to 78 months in prison. http://phys.org/news265481566.html Technology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:52:50 EST news265481566 The Boston Globe has offered buyouts to 43 employees, including 20 in the newsroom, in the face of "challenging times for our industry." http://phys.org/news262362577.html Technology Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:29:44 EST news262362577 Renewable energy reached a big milestone in 2011, surging to a record $257 billion in global investments, the U.N. Environment Program announced, up 17 percent from 2010 and a sixfold increase over the past seven years. The figure also marks a breakthrough for the solar power industry, which drew nearly twice as much investment as wind energy last year, according to reports from the U.N. and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). http://phys.org/news259244872.html Technology Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:40:02 EST news259244872 Sixteenth-century European explorers probed the jungles and valleys of South America in search of El Dorado, the legendary lost city of gold, but came up empty-handed. Corporate political supporters may find themselves similarly unrewarded, according according to a new study from Rice University and Long Island University. http://phys.org/news258637076.html Other Sciences Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:38:24 EST news258637076 (AP) -- Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that shepherded Facebook through its highly publicized stock offering last week, selectively informed clients of an analyst's negative report about the company before the stock started trading. http://phys.org/news256964117.html Technology Wed, 23 May 2012 03:58:48 EST news256964117 (AP) -- Facebook can be a terrific way to connect with friends and family, a colossal drain on your time and productivity, or a little of both. Soon, another facet will emerge: investment opportunity. http://phys.org/news255892112.html Technology Thu, 10 May 2012 18:30:03 EST news255892112 In small and medium-sized companies, investments in knowledge transfer and creation promote internalisation. Knowledge is transferred both through internal and external transfer, i.e. between the various actors within the company and outside it, such as customers and other companies. http://phys.org/news255769605.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 May 2012 08:07:09 EST news255769605 The foremost challenge in marketing research today is to understand how companies should allocate limited resources as well as the type of returns that can be expected from marketing investments. A better understanding of the determinants of marketing performance is a prerequisite for the development of marketing expertise both overall and on the level of individual organizations. http://phys.org/news254732826.html Other Sciences Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:08:22 EST news254732826 The international consortium behind a plan to build the world's most powerful radio telescope on Wednesday signalled further delays in deciding whether it should be hosted by South Africa or Australia. http://phys.org/news252762106.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:41:59 EST news252762106 In the United States alone, government and private industry together invest more than $3 billion per year in nanotechnology research and development, and globally the total is much higher. What will be the long-run economic returns from these investments, not only in new jobs and product sales, but also from improvements in sustainability? http://phys.org/news252145258.html Nanotechnology Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:21:06 EST news252145258 Large-scale microfinance programs are widely used as a tool to fight poverty in developing countries, but a recent study from the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty suggests that they can have varying results for participants and may be the most cost-effective use of funds only in limited situations. http://phys.org/news251538697.html Other Sciences Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:52:50 EST news251538697 Blizzard Entertainment, publisher of "World of Warcraft" and other hit videogames, announced Wednesday that it is cutting 600 jobs. http://phys.org/news249760864.html Technology Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:01:14 EST news249760864 When the Icelandic banking system was privatised in 2003, it inaugurated a period of furious expansion of both loans and risky investments. The bubble burst in 2008. At that time, the nominal assets of the three largest banks was 14 times bigger than Iceland's entire GDP. http://phys.org/news249647193.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:27:23 EST news249647193 Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing. http://phys.org/news247144613.html Technology Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:17:01 EST news247144613 Yahoo's previous turnaround attempts have flopped under three different leaders with dramatically different backgrounds - former movie mogul Terry Semel, beloved Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and profanity-spewing Silicon Valley veteran Carol Bartz. http://phys.org/news244892566.html Technology Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:42:53 EST news244892566 China has less than a decade to overhaul its economy and safeguard long-term growth that goes beyond a boom based on cheap labor, a top US Treasury official warned Wednesday. http://phys.org/news243091090.html Technology Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:18:18 EST news243091090 AOL co-founder Steve Case and two former top AOL executives announced Thursday they have raised $450 million to invest in start-ups located outside of Silicon Valley. http://phys.org/news241978173.html Technology Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:40:01 EST news241978173 Given the recent focus on the federal defense budget, Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier, of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have revisited their assessment of the employment-creation potential of military spending. As in the previous editions of their study, they find unequivocally that government spending on the military is a far weaker engine of job growth than are investments in clean energy, health care, or education, and is even weaker than spending the same amount on household consumption. http://phys.org/news241933037.html Other Sciences Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:38:12 EST news241933037 Denmark aims to have wind power supply half of the country's electricity needs in 2020, under a new programme presented by Climate and Energy Minister Martin Lidegaard on Friday. http://phys.org/news241447867.html Technology Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:51:25 EST news241447867 Groupon Inc.'s stock fell below its initial public offering price for the first time Wednesday as investors reassess the challenges facing the still-unprofitable online deals company in a shaky economy. http://phys.org/news241277538.html Technology Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:32:47 EST news241277538 (AP) -- Sina Corp., a popular Chinese web portal operator, sank to a loss in the latest quarter due to writedowns on investments in two online businesses but revenues and microblog traffic were up. http://phys.org/news240040037.html Technology Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:47:28 EST news240040037 What caused the financial crisis of 2008? MIT economist Ricardo Caballero has posited that a key structural factor was a massive global imbalance between the demand for safe investments, especially bonds, and the supply of safe places to put new capital. http://phys.org/news238743315.html Other Sciences Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:10:02 EST news238743315 (AP) -- Venture capitalists invested more money in more U.S. startups in the third quarter than they did a year earlier - especially in the software industry. http://phys.org/news238213788.html Technology Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:40:03 EST news238213788 (AP) -- NASA has booked a charter suborbital flight from Virgin Galactic's spaceport operations in southern New Mexico. http://phys.org/news237815020.html Space & Earth Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:44:11 EST news237815020