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Euro aid for globalisation victims
Blog Well, the EU is riding to the rescue with something I'd certainly never heard of before: the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF - what happened to the A? Remember those poor souls who lost their jobs after BenQ pulled out of Europe last year?
[September 28, 2007, 13:25]
Government turns to Gates for globalisation guidance
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is to advise the government on how to respond to the challenges of globalisation so it can compete with the fast-growing economies of China and India. Brown said in a statement: "There is no more important question for...
[March 21, 2006, 15:35]
Government turns to Gates for globalisation guidance
Talkback I can't help it, but I feel a bit sorry for the British Government.
[March 21, 2006, 19:01]
EU thinktank calls for naked PCs
News In a submission to the European Commission, the Globalisation Institute claimed that the lack of choice in desktop operating systems is a more central issue than that of bundled media players — the issue that sparked the Commission's antitrust...
[September 24, 2007, 13:27]
Monti promises 'active, not activist' EC competition policy
News Writing in the Financial Times, Monti emphasised that the rights of consumers in individual countries must not lose out to the "globalisation interests" of big business. We would do a disservice to that country's citizens were we to sacrifice their...
[November 27, 2001, 12:08]
WTO boss rails against 'dot-com types'
News He warned non-governmental organisations (NGOs) seeking change to distance themselves from "masked stone-throwers who claim to want more transparency, anti-globalisation dot-com types who trot out slogans that are trite, shallow and superficial".
[July 9, 2001, 16:32]
Tech firms diversify to survive slump
News Research firm IDC expects "globalisation services" to grow by 7.2 percent this year to $5.33bn (£3.4bn), according to analyst Alex Motsenigos. IDC defines globalisation services to include software localisation, content translation, interpretation...
[March 28, 2003, 14:49]
Oracle to double Indian staff
News Ellison, however, countered that globalisation has helped India as well as Oracle. I know globalisation is controversial in some spots in the world -- people protest it regularly," Ellison said during the satellite address.
[July 14, 2003, 14:53]
3Com builds on Chinese expertise
News Our vision is that the world is flat and that this industry, like the oil industry before it, is ripe for globalisation. We are the only company I can think of that is really living up to this globalisation potential.
[May 16, 2007, 18:26]
Silicon Valley: mixed signals for the future
News Now there's globalisation in services. There's always been globalisation. If Stephen Levy were to write a book about Silicon Valley, he would be likely riff on the title of a Dickens novel. He sees two economies going in opposite directions.
[February 11, 2005, 14:15]
Microsoft: You already have naked PCs!
Blog Microsoft has responded to our request for comment after a "free-market" EU thinktank, the Globalisation Institute, recommended that all PCs in Europe should be sold without a preinstalled operating system (see the story here and our leader...
[September 25, 2007, 10:54]
Human Resource Management in Transition: A Study of MNEs in China
White Papers China over the last decade has been at the forefront of the globalisation process. It has reacted to the movement in economic and business environments by initiating changes in human resources management (HRM) practised by both state-owned...
[May 25, 2005, 3:00]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback We need to understand that we are moving towards globalisation. My dear American /Indian Brothers and Sisters, What customer need is , to get their issue resolved. I worked as a Customer Support Exe.with Dell for about 8 months , and let me inform...
[October 6, 2006, 12:56]
Implications of Cultural Variety for IT Codes of Ethics
White Papers Driven by globalisation, the world is becoming a single workplace and marketplace. IT organisations are growing along with the international businesses they service. Like all professionals, IT professionals who work within these organisations...
[November 17, 2006, 1:35]
Hacktivists threaten World Bank meeting
News The meetings have spurred protests in previous years, but this year anti-globalisation activists are expected to step up their plans, possibly attempting to block traffic on the city's streets on Friday.
[September 24, 2002, 12:13]
Carly Fiorina draws crowd in Geneva
News Fiorina, who spent around two decades in telecoms before taking up the top post at HP just over four years ago, controversially spoke in favour of globalisation -- calling it "inevitable and inexorable" -- but said technology makes it possible...
[October 13, 2003, 16:30]
UK urged to import more skilled IT workers
News The UK must do more to attract foreign skilled workers if homegrown hi-tech knowledge industries are to flourish in an era of increasing globalisation. That's the warning from not-for-profit research organisation The Work Foundation, which has...
[June 2, 2008, 8:55]
A free market for free software
Leader Although the Globalisation Institute is quite correct in saying that Microsoft's effective monopoly of the desktop is unfair to competitors and holds back the market, its proposed solution is no solution at all.
[September 24, 2007, 17:25]
Businesses back call for naked PCs
News Earlier this week, the Globalisation Institute, a European thinktank, made a submission to the European Commission proposing that all PCs and laptops should be sold without an operating system in order to foster competition and bring down prices...
[September 28, 2007, 14:13]
Hacktivists launch virtual demo while streets blocked
News A group of demonstrators in the UK are organising a "virtual sit-in" against the trade group Free Trade Area of Americas (FTAA) in protest of its promotion of economic globalisation and defiance of its attempts to hamper street protests.
[April 20, 2001, 16:38]
