8. november 2005

India and China Take On the World and Each Other. Companies in the two largest emerging economies in the world are beginning to hunt intensively for business in each other's markets. By HOWARD W. FRENCH. [NYT > Technology] 11:56:21 AM    comment [] Hospitals In China Find Profit In AIDS . KUNMING, China -- On the day she arrived at the Number Three People's Hospital to seek treatment for HIV, Cai had no symptoms. But she did have a little bit of money, and that gets quick attention in the modern-day Chinese health care system: The doctors pressured her to check in and begin a regimen... By Peter S. Goodman. [washingtonpost.com - Business] 11:50:53 AM    comment [] French Officials Try to Ease Fear as Crisis Swells. The civil unrest in France claimed its first death while the government sought to show that it could control the situation. By MARK LANDLER and CRAIG S. SMITH. [NYT > Home Page] 11:48:58 AM    comment [] Singapore Telecom mobile users in Asia top 74 million (AFP). AFP - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) says its aggregate mobile subsriber base in Asia exceeded 74 million users as of end September, up 31 percent from more than 56 million last year. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 11:46:25 AM    comment [] Lawsuit in United States over flimsy iPod screens goes international (AFP). AFP - Apple Computer customers in Mexico and the United Kingdom have joined the legal crusade to make the Silicon Valley company pay for allegedly defective screens on new iPod nano music players, lawyers said. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 11:40:20 AM    comment [] Grokster to Shut Down Downloading Service (AP). AP - Grokster Ltd., which came out on the losing end of a Supreme Court decision, has agreed to shut down its file-swapping service and pay $50 million to settle music and movie piracy claims. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 11:39:13 AM    comment [] Rival tech towns may outrun India's Bangalore (Reuters). Reuters - There's a punchline going around in India's high-tech capital: Bangalore may be Bangalored. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 11:37:30 AM    comment []

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