Tag Archives : US

Major League Baseball (MLB) has been in news for its latest talk of contraction of players and this has led analysts to look at MLB’s earning, revenue sharing and luxury tax. It is well known that for many years Yankees and Red Sox have been extremely popular and highest earning teams. It doesn’t really come as surprise that they are highest contributor [...]

Mercedes-Benz is taking a right step in the right direction, after manufacturing cars for decades it has turned its attention to setting up driving schools in different parts of the world. After the success of Mercedes-Benz Driving Academy in UK, which was launched in 2009, it is planning to open next academy in US and that too with prime focus on teen [...]

The rebound in the US demands together with the substantial growth in the consumer spending in China has given rise to inflationary pressures that have spurred the companies to seek partners even through mergers and acquisitions. Li & Fung Limited is the largest supplier to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and they have formulated plans to increase acquisitions [...]

Gitanjali Group is the leader of Jewelry industry in India. In order to increase its reach in the international market it is all set to acquire Italy’s DIT Group’s signature brands Stefan Hafner, Porrati, Nouvelle Bague of Florence and Io Si. The size of the deal is said to be about 20 million Euros and a top company official confirmed that the [...]

The concept, Zipcar has based its offerings on, is not really luxury but convenience. They also offer some models of BMW but what BMW has just launched in Munich, Germany is pure and simple luxury. The hourly car sharing program is called BMW on demand. It is a pilot project initiated by the company itself and will run for at least a year in its present [...]

Those users who have been using Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems, they are by now very much familiar with the Windows Live Essentials package, that includes a host of free downloadable applications such as Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, and Mail etc. that have been designed to provide the users with an altogether new innovative [...]

Once again it’s the time of annual Mountain Film Festival 2010 and this year the venue is Telluride, Colorado. Telluride Mountain film festival motto is to celebrate ‘Indomitable Spirit’ which makes all kinds of survival possible be it a survival of fragile ecosystem, endangered culture or species, or grass root level sustainability movement or [...]

EPA has announced a first ever competition among buildings and 14 short listed buildings from all over US will compete with each other in The National Building Competition to reduce their energy use and waste. Isn’t this an innovative challenge and good motivation to earn energy stars and other points and stand out as most energy efficient winner? [...]

Iran is willing to grant Japan the contract for the construction of five new nuclear plants, according to Iranian Parliamentary Foreign Policy and National Security Committee Chairman Alaeddin Boroujerdi. He adds that ‘Japan’s participation would be in the interest of both the Government of Japan and private companies.’ Japan is being allowed [...]

On February 18, the United Nations had the largest fund-raising in its history, garnering $1.44 billion for emergency aid to Haiti in 2010. However, there has been a lot of criticism regarding the failure of coordination of such a humanitarian aid among the UN agencies and NGO recipients of these funds. Huge humanitarian needs remain unmet in spite [...]