Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the world’s mobile phone industry players and a foundation for women launched Thursday a program that aims to provide 150 million women in developing countries with handsets to empower them socio-economically. Rob Conway, CEO of the [...]
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Program Pushes Mobile Phone Ownership For Women In Developing Countries
October 8th, 2010
davidguide Nobel In Chemistry Goes To U.S., Japanese Scientists
October 7th, 2010
davidguide David Goodhue – AHN News Reporter Stockholm, Sweden (AHN) – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists – two from the U.S. and one from Japan — for their work in developing palladium-catalyzed cross coupling. According to a Nobel statement, the chemical tool has “vastly improved the possibilities for chemists to [...]
Hamas Makes a Buck off Gaza’s Smuggled Gasoline
October 4th, 2010
davidguide The Media Line Staff Gaza, Palestinian Territory (TML) – Residents of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are feeling the impact of an increase in the tax imposed on smuggled gasoline and diesel fuel. The Hamas government has doubled the amount it collects for fuel brought into the Gaza Strip from Egypt through underground tunnels. The Petrol [...]
Ericsson Wins Bid For Nortel Networks’ Multi Service Switch Business
September 27th, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff Toronto, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – Ericsson won on Friday its bid for Nortel Networks’ Multi Service Switch business globally with an offer of $65 million. The bid includes all assets of the MSS business worldwide, including the associated Data Packet Network, Services Edge Router product groups, all customer contracts and some intellectual [...]
Iran Believes Attack By Computer Virus Is Cyber Terrorism
September 26th, 2010
davidguide Lawrence Mijares – AHN News Contributor Bushehr, Iran (AHN) – A sophisticated computer code dubbed the “Stuxnet worm” has hit computers in Iran, particularly those inside its first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr that is expected to go operational in October. Iranian officials have called the worm an act of [...]
Restaurant Franchising in India
February 28th, 2010
davidguide It is widely reported that restaurant franchising in India is growing at the rate of 35-38 per cent each year with a market size of 7.2 billion US dollars. This figure is expected to reach 20 billion US dollars by the year 2013. In total, there are approximately 1,200 active franchise concepts in India and [...]


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