49296 results returned for search: "" category ("Other" AND "Business")
CellularOne lost some subscribers in 2006 but maintained strong profitability in an increasingly competitive wireless telecommunications market, chief operating officer Michael Leverock said yesterday.
The company maintained its position as market le...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Toronto (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks rose for the first time in four days, amid a global rebound in equities, on speculation a week-long selloff created buying opportunities.Commodity producers including Goldcorp climbed on higher bullion and crude ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Bermuda-based White Mountains Group Ltd. announced yesterday that Allan Waters has been elected chief executive officer of its reinsurance group, White Mountains Re Group, Ltd. He succeeds Tom Hutton, who remains deputy chairman of the White Mountain...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Finance Minister Paula Cox said last night that Ace Ltd. chief executive officer Evan Greenberg’s call for beefed-up regulation of the insurance industry suggested he was “not current” with improvements that had taken place at the Bermuda Monetary Au...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Bacardi will have no problem raising the estimated $5 billion needed to buy the Swedish makers of the world-famous Absolut Vodka brand.
The Bermuda-based company has been in contact with the government of Sweden to express interest in acquiring the s...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft is taking aim at Google Inc.’s rival book-scanning project, saying the search company “systematically violates copyright”.In prepared remarks he delivered yesterday to a publishing industry group, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer als...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
LONDON (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Golden Ocean Group Ltd., a raw-materials shipping company spun off from Frontline Ltd., sold a commodities carrier for a “positive result” of $10.8 million.The line sold Golden Dena, a so-called panamax vessel with ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Belco and Butterfield Bank shares fell in value by 50 cents as the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange ended 35.84 points (-0.71 percent) lower at 4,984.91.
Stocks valued at $761,770 changed hands. There was trading of 10,470 shares of Butterfield...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
THE Nintendo GameCube might have been my sons’ pride and joy for four years, but it was relegated to the kids’ small television and not once did it earn a connection to our main family room TV.Our Wii game console, however, is having a hard time leav...
DATE: Mar 07, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Cheaper airfares and lower gas station fuel prices were part of the reason for the monthly inflation rate dropping from 3.4 percent to 2.8 percent between December and January.
The latest Consumer Price Index figures also show a fall in clothing and ...
DATE: Mar 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
