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France delivers long-awaited green energy bill
2014-08-04 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The French government approved its long-awaited Energy Bill last week, amidst predictions the wide-ranging legislation could mobilise up to 10bn of investment in clean technologies. The cabinet approved the proposed bill last Wednesday, clearing the way for it to go before parliament this autumn. The bill includes a host of new targets designed to slash emissions from France's energy sector, reduce its reliance on nuclear power, and accelerate investment in renewables. Specifically, the bill...
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Electrolux shares soar as long-awaited European demand returns
2014-04-26 17:24:31| Appliances - Topix.net
Electrolux, the world's second-biggest home appliances maker, said on Friday its European markets were finally growing again and that a recovery in the United States would continue, sending its shares up nearly 10 percent.
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Japan in long-awaited sales tax rise
2014-04-01 07:38:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Japan raises sales tax for the first time in 17 years, in an attempt to rein in mounting public debt and tackle rising welfare costs.
Windows Phone to get long-awaited enterprise update
2014-02-24 13:49:41| InfoWorld: Top News
Microsoft will soon offer an update to its Windows Phone operating system that will bring a number of new features targeted at enterprise users. The update will be offered "later this spring" and will add new security options, including signed and encrypted S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) and automatic triggering of the virtual private network client when an enterprise resource is accessed, said Joe Belfiore, Microsoft corporate vice president at a Mobile World Congress news conference.
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Apple, China Mobile Sign Long-awaited Deal to Sell iPhones
2013-12-23 06:36:34| Telecom - Topix.net
In a deal that could add billions of dollars to its revenue, Apple said its smartphones will be available to China Mobile, which has about 760 million customers, will begin registering orders for iPhone from December 25, the company said on its account on the Sina-Weibo micro-blogging service.