Posts Tagged ‘Turkey’

Google Fined $47 Million For Tax Evasion

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 23:15 By Rajeev Saxena

The biggest name in the information and technology sector, Google Inc.,has been slapped with a whopping $47 million fine under the charges of tax evasion by Turkish government. The search industry behemoth has been found guilty of trying to cut corners in Turkey’s national tax system. As per the Turkish authorities, Google runs its advertising [...]

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Euphrates is drying and dying

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 18:31 By NARUTO

Euphrates is drying. Strangled by the politics of the neighbors’ from Iraq water, Turkey and Syria; two years of drought and years of inadequate use for Iraq and their farmers, the river is significantly smaller of the than there are just few years. Some authorities fear that soon can be the half than it was.
The [...]

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Russia’s Oil Monopoly To End In The European Region

Monday, July 13, 2009 15:55 By Rajeev Saxena

In a landmark agreement, officials and experts from six different countries have signed a deal in Turkey to provide support for a U.S backed gas pipeline, that would bring to ease a growing oil crisis in Europe. The agreements also aims at breaking the monopoly of the Russian Federation in the European region, in terms [...]

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Cyber Crime Boom Amidst Recession

Monday, April 27, 2009 20:30 By GSerrano

In 2008, the dissemination of harmful software such as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and the like grew by 265% on a global scale. More than 60% of currently known threats were detected during the past year.
Much more today than in the past, cyber criminals are in the Web business with the intent to make money. [...]

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Barack Obama: Building Bridges?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:34 By Jaiyant Cavale

It is indeed welcome to see US President Barack Obama reaching out to the so called adversaries’ nations with his impressive speeches stressing on peace and meaningful dialogue. First he sent out a tape to people of Iran on the eve of Nawroz extending conditional US cooperation and attempted to open new dialogue. Next he [...]

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Recession and political divisions hamper further enlargement of the EU

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:58 By GSerrano

The process of enlargement of the European Union (EU) is in crisis because of the seriousness of the economic recession and the deep differences on the European integration process. Germany’s Angela Merkel was the first to call a pause in consolidation following the rapid addition of 12 countries.
This policy shift has jolted the expectations of [...]

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Turkey: Obama’s First State Visit to the Muslim World

Monday, March 9, 2009 8:30 By GSerrano

While still president-elect, Obama promised to visit the capital of a Muslim country within his first 100 days in office. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has confirmed that Obama will visit Turkey within one month.
Turkey is, of course, the safest Muslim country right now that is conducive for Obama’s ceremonious initial effort to directly [...]

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Turkey Beckons Travelers!

Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:30 By Jaiyant Cavale

Turkey is certainly on everybody’s travel list if they are planning to travel abroad. Turkey receives most of its visitors from Britain where the country is almost the most preferred destination for travel. Turkey is a nation full of history, ruins, beautiful landscapes, throbbing nightlife, nightclubs, beautiful mosques and Byzantine churches, and great outdoors.
Traveling in [...]

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Play It Again, S(p)am

Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:33 By GSerrano

Spam is doing well! According to the experts of security technologies at Symantec, between 150 and 200 billion spam mails were sent each day worldwide, in 2008. This represents between 80 percent and 90 percent of mails sent to individuals, and even 97 percent to professionals. The amount of spam is also said to be [...]

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Count Your Blessings This Thanksgiving Day

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 15:49 By Jaiyant Cavale

This perhaps would be the most unique Thanksgiving in the history of America. The nation has gone through such economic turmoil recently that people have been finding it hard to have celebrations of any kind. When Guideposts.com conducted a survey recently, it was surprised to find out that only 11% of the population said they [...]

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