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Google Top Charts show world's searches for whiskey, more
2013-05-22 18:35:45| CNET News.com
Google Trends just launched new monthly search charts by category for everything from booze to business leaders. [Read more]
Intel loses ground as world's top semiconductor company, survey says
2013-05-14 14:55:44| InfoWorld: Top News
As Intel mulls a plan to expand its contract-manufacturing operations, the company has lost ground as the world's top semiconductor company to chip suppliers benefitting from the success of mobile devices, according to a study by IC Insights released on Monday. Based on revenue, Intel remained the top semiconductor company, but has lost market share to Samsung and Qualcomm, which design and supply chips for smartphones and tablets. A lot of Intel's chips are being used in PCs, whose sales are falling.
Chinese banks top Forbes Global 2000 list of world's biggest companies
2013-04-18 02:15:36| Chemicals - Topix.net
ICBC and China Construction Bank are Nos 1 and 2, ahead of JP Morgan, General Electric and Exxon, last year's biggest firm For the first time, two Chinese firms have topped Forbes magazine's annual poll of the world's largest companies .
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None of the worlds top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use
2013-04-17 20:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The notion of "externalities" has become familiar in environmental circles. It refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. For instance, industrial processes can put pollutants in the air that increase public health costs, but the public, not the polluting businesses, picks up the tab. In this way, businesses privatize profits and publicize costs. While the notion is incredibly useful, especially in folding ecological concerns into economics, I`ve always had...
China to Surpass U.S. as Worlds Top Crude Importer, OPEC Says
2013-04-02 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: China is on course to overtake the U.S. as the worlds top crude importer by 2014, as the Asian countrys growing refining capacity boosts demand and Americas fracking boom cuts the need for foreign oil, OPEC said today. Imports to China may surpass 6 million barrels a day by the end of this year, according to an e-mailed report from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. U.S. oil imports declined 21 percent last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Shipments...