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TOKYO (Bloomberg) - Mitsubishi Electric Corp., a Japanese maker of plant machinery and mobile phones, plans to start selling high-definition DVD recorders based on Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray standard from May 24 in Japan.
The recorders will feature a hard ...
DATE: Mar 19, 2008
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Inspiration Office Ltd. and Creative Office Concepts Ltd. have teamed up to provide the Island with innovative and sleek furniture and fittings for offices.
The companies are the first to have a distribution deal with award-winning Inscape Solutions,...
DATE: Mar 19, 2008
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Lord Patten spelled out his ideas of the biggest risks facing the world to more than 350 delegates on the opening day of the World Insurance Forum in Dubai on Monday.
British futurologist James Martin, who has a home in Bermuda, then gave attendees m...
DATE: Mar 19, 2008
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DATE: Mar 19, 2008
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Cable & Wireless was granted permission to activate its new fibre optic cables, which will improve service to the Island.
The company, which has been in Bermuda for 118 years, already spent $22 million laying the 800-mile long next generation fibre o...
DATE: Mar 18, 2008
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Bermuda-based Arch Capital has teamed up with an investment company owned by a group of Arab states to create a new reinsurer called Gulf Re.
The new company will be domiciled in Dubai with $400 million of capital, with Arch and the Gulf Investment C...
DATE: Mar 18, 2008
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Dubai has set out its stall to encroach on Bermuda's traditional territory of captive insurance and reinsurance.
Speaking on yesterday's opening morning of the World Insurance Forum (WIF), the Governor of host venue the Dubai International Financial ...
DATE: Mar 18, 2008
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Shares in the conglomerate, whose products include trams, turbines and telecommunications equipment, plummeted on the news. Its US traded shares were down 16 percent on the New York Stock Exchange, shedding $19.64 to $104.90 in afternoon dealings aft...
DATE: Mar 18, 2008
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American International Group Inc. (AIG) subsidiary AIG Consumer Finance Group (CFG), Inc. has reached an agreement to buy Inversora Pichincha S.A. (Inversora Pichincha), the third largest consumer finance company in Colombia, from Ecuador-based Banco...
DATE: Mar 18, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended sharply lower yesterday as it suffered the double whammy of weak resource issues and further worries over the global credit crisis.
Taking its cue from international markets, the TSX s...
DATE: Mar 18, 2008
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