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Re:Save energy, make money from Helena

   Helena told about Energy Aware in her blog article. The  Power Tab in-home display system from Energy Aware  shows the exactly energy consumption and the price over a time period, encouraging customers to reduce the usage of energy.  Helena  hold an opinion that customers are promoted by energy savings to replace their old meters as the Smart Meter […]

Re:Chinese Nexen – “Net profit”?

From: https://blogs.ubc.ca/jingyipeng/2012/10/25/chinese-nexen-net-profit/ This is a command of Jingyi Peng’s blog article, which is about takeover between Nexen and CNOOC. As Jingyi illustrated, there were two major concerns from Canadian stakeholders. First one was security, Canadian stakeholders were worried about their information  about users would be investigated by Chinese company. Secondly, due to economic situation difference, it was no easy for these two stated-own […]

Financial aid to India will be terminated by UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20265583  A financial aid to India about £200m ($319m) will beterminatedby UK  from now to 2015 and UK will then shift to offering technical assistance to replace. When it was overtaken by Ethiopia, India was the biggest recipient of bilateral aid from the UK until last year, receiving an average of £227m a year in direct […]

Greece presents big cuts package

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20206710   Greece presents cuts package to parliament which worth 13.5bn euro. The cuts  include tax rises, spending cuts and structural reforms.  Parliament  will vote for thsi and make a final decision.  Nov 16 is the deadline for Greece to repay 5bn euros in debt, in this case, international lenders hold th opinion that  Greece must […]

Strategies of Mulberry needs to be updated

From: http://www.jingdaily.com/to-play-ball-in-china-mulberry-needs-to-up-its-game/21742/  Mulberry claimed a shares slid about 29 percent, the brand’s steepest decline since 1998. It blamed a fall in wholesale and  lower-than-expected international sales, China particularly. However, it should then looking at its internal shortages. Mulberry shows a little ambition to develop its brand in China, it has a single Bejing location in china, and  a […]

Roger Vivier marched into China’s second-tier city

From: http://www.jingdaily.com/roger-viviers-high-stakes-bet-on-china/21816/ Roger Vivier opened its third main flagship in Shenyang, China. Compared to Beijing’s 80 square meter location, Shenyang’s 360 square flagship became  one of the label’s largest global boutiques in Shenyang, which seems to become  become one of the top luxury markets in China. Roger Vivier was so confident that it was brave to built […]

China’s huge market attracts Canadian investments

  A group of Canadian premiers went to Chin, which is the second big market with Canadian products, look to attract and sign big business  contracts.  Alison Redford, premier of Alberta, said her discussion is whether the transaction povides exactly economic benefit to Alberta. Maybe not Albert, but the trancation do bring benefit to Canadian economy, […]

positioning of RIM’s new PlayBook tablet

RIM’s new 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook is accessible through  Bell, Rogers and Telus on August. This is may be a chance  for RIM to relieve its tough situation—continual product delays, declining market share, cost-cutting layoffs. However, the author of this news, Peter Nowak, indicated that RIM overpriced its PlayBook products again, at a price of $549 and RIM posit itself […]

US home sales at two-year high

  As the article shows, according to the National Association of Realtors’ data, the price of previously US owned house rose, resulted in  the sale of this kind of house reached  highest level for more than two years in August. However, this also caused a fall in the amount of first-time buyers about 3%. This  phenomenon was […]

Nokia’s faked advert

Nokia’s advert shows its  optical image stabilisation (OSI) technology. A man uses a smartphone to film his  girlfriend when they are both riding bike. The advert displays a fascinating picture on difference of  OSI on and off. People think the camera of this phone has really good visual effect. However, this is a fake. The truth is that the footage of […]

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