Is the sum of the parts greater than the whole? A number of the world’s largest companies are considering the degree of truth this timeless motto holds. Starbursting is the popular term given to restructuring a company by breaking it up into smaller pieces and sending forth these new, smaller divisions toward the stock markets….
If you thought that Italy’s seemingly unassuming yogurt industry was just that, think again. French dairy group Lactalis have historically set their sights on Italian owned company Parmalat. A strategic, successful bid for a greater percentage of the Italian-owned company placed the French stakeholders too uncomfortably close to the company takeover threshold for the Italians….
The biggest increase in company profit in the past decade is proving reason enough for investors to hold on tightly to their stocks. This, despite the fact that the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has rallied 97 percent. Experts have indicated that consumer spending will sustain this financial recovery (post the 2008 financial crisis). This…
They may be some of the most popular countries in Europe, but their financial future is looking significantly less favorable. Despite Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, indicating that the euro-zone summit on March 24th-25th was a leap in the direction of amending the region’s debt crisis, critics are suggesting otherwise. Rescue missions, while approved, lack funding….
It seems not even the president is able to stop savvy techies from accessing the internet these days. According to Jeff Moss, a communications adviser to America’s Department of Homeland Security, politically motivated shutdowns of the internet in countries such as Egypt, Libya and elsewhere are being circumvented by tech-savvy revolutionaries, with the help of…
A summary of a new report on how fighting air pollution can help climate change is soon to be presented to ministers attending the governing council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The report is said to feature a powerful argument encouraging certain action on two short-lived climate “forcings”, or, factors that change the…
