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BERLIN (AP) - Police and customs officials investigating suspected patent violations seized dozens of boxes of mobile phones, navigation devices and other gadgets from exhibitors in a technology fair, authorities said yesterday.
Police in Hanover sai...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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The founder of the smutty Girls Gone Wild videos will remain behind bars as he awaits a trial for tax evasion charges in the US after he channelled millions through a Bermuda bank account.
The 34-year-old video empire founder hoped to be released fro...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman Warren Buffett beat out Bill Gates for the top spot on Forbes magazine's annual list of billionaires worldwide, ending a 13-year reign for Microsoft Corp.'s co-founder.
Buffett's wealth increase...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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Sao Paulo (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Cosan Ltd., parent of the world's biggest sugar-cane processor, plans to hold a shares swap auction on April 14 to acquire stock of its operating unit as part of a corporate reorganisation plan.
The company is of...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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BF&M Ltd. continued its good form of late, rising a further 50 cents (2.2 percent) to close at $22.95 on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The insurance company also traded 1,000 shares.
Of the other traders, Butterfield...
DATE: Mar 06, 2008
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Inquisitive, outgoing and active are not necessarily the first words that might spring to mind when the word auditor comes up but three of Bermuda's up-and-coming internal auditors swear that is what the job requires.
On the heels of a visit from the...
DATE: Mar 06, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Ambac Financial Group Inc. fell as much as 20 percent in New York Stock Exchange trading after the company's plan to raise $1.5 billion fell short of investors' expectations and failed to allay concern it may lose its AAA credi...
DATE: Mar 06, 2008
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Aspen Re is believed to be the first underwriter in Bermuda to implement an electronic accounting and settlement system.
It will now trade all of its accounting and settlement transactions (A&S) electronically with brokers Aon and Benfield, which is ...
DATE: Mar 06, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street managed a moderate gain in an erratic session yesterday as investors sorted through a downbeat Federal Reserve assessment of the economy and were also disappointed by a plan to bail out troubled bond insurer Ambac Financia...
DATE: Mar 06, 2008
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Something interesting is happening in Bermuda in terms of internal auditing - and Gerald Cox, the chairman of the Global Institute of Internal Auditors, is impressed by the trail-blazing attitude being adopted by Bermuda's Government.
Mr. Cox is on t...
DATE: Mar 06, 2008
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