European households' disposable income didn't keep up with the GDP growth, but continued to decline in real terms from one year to another, so that a growing part of the population says that it needs to spend from their savings or even take loans to pay their daily costs, shows the latest quarterly Bulletin of the EC ... read entire article »
The financial crisis seems to be over, so that business people begin again to think about investments, according to Business Insider. Here are some products or services most likely to bring you millions: Mobile payments: Emma Thompson, Reuter ... read entire article »
Online advertising market amounted up to $42.8 billion in 2013, 17% up from 2012, according to the latest data provided by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The online industry surpassed the $40.1 billion attracted by the TV advertising for the first ... read entire article »
Burger King defied the conflicts in Crimea and announced their intent to open restaurants in the new Russian territory, writes Russia Today. The U.S. group decision comes after thier main rival, McDonald's, announced on April 3 that it will close all it ... read entire article »
The Nobel Foundation announced on Wednesday the project for its new building in central Stockholm that will host the prestigious awards, including Nobel awards ceremony and a museum. "The winner of the design competition for the Nobel Center is David ... read entire article »
McDonald's U.S. group announced on Friday that they are suspending work at the restaurants in Crimea, citing problems with the production chain, shortly after another western company stopped operations in March in the peninsula attached to the Russian Federation. ... read entire article »
Companies in Western Europe will pay this year record dividends to shareholders, while reserves reached €2.000 billion, the maximum in the last decade, but investment and employment is seen against the background of uncertainty in the economic recovery ... read entire article »
Capital outflows from Russia increased almost three times, in the first quarter of this year, compared to the previous quarter to $50.6 billion, the highest level since the last three months of 2008, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the financial ... read entire article »
If you've purchased a bike in Romania and want to protect it from being stolen, you can register it online in the Register Bicycle Platform (RDB), created specifically for this purpose. The enrollment offers a series to the bicycle holder, which can then be ... read entire article »
George Soros hopes that marijuana legalization will be extended in as many U.S. states as possible. The billionaire spent large amounts of money in the recent years to achieve this, says the Washington Post in their online website. Through NGOs, Soros ha ... read entire article »
Toyota, the largest carmaker in the world, got recalled for inspection and repairs for 6.76 million vehicles in circulation, throughout the world, including the Yaris and RAV4 models. The campaign includes five recalls for different problems and concerns aiming ... read entire article »
Large media groups began to produce more and more original series broadcasted on the Internet, wanting to rival the production of television posts and wanting to get the same revenue from advertising as them. The last one to be launched in this race, the ... read entire article »
Capital flows from Central and Eastern Europe began to penetrate beyond the safety and stability of Poland and the Czech Republic, investors being prone to risk showing a higher interest for markets such as Romania and Hungary, that were neglected until now. ... read entire article »
Russia banned imports of pork products from Moldova, said a spokesman for the Russian federal regarding the Rosselhoznadzor agrifood security service after Moscow alleged non-compliance with the Customs Union and the Moscow area. Aleksei Alekseinko said the ban ... read entire article »
The United States has completed the payments, under a historic agreement, regarding the import of Russian uranium for the production of electricity, announced the state company Techsnabexport, manufacturer and marketer of uranium, RIA Novosti writes on their ... read entire article »
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is already involved in a corruption scandal in China and is now part of an investigation of bribery in Iraq. This latest controversy is due to the fact that GSK has engaged physicists and chemists as sales agents, given that they are ... read entire article »
Pope Francis has approved a plan to reform the Vatican Bank, founded in 1887, ending a year of speculation about a possible closure of the financial institution put in an embarrassing situation by the Catholic Church for decades, according to Reuters. The ... read entire article »
The growth in the U.S. employment "is not at the potential level" of the economy, some companies bring deterred by uncertainty from the regulatory and political environment, said the general manager of the Internatioanl Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde. ... read entire article »
Goldman Sachs, one of the most influential investment banks on Wall Street, gave to Lloyd Blankfein, General Director, a bonus of $6 million in cash, to be paid over the next three years, if the company will meet certain performance criteria, according to ... read entire article »
Almost new drills, bikes for all ages, games, sets of glasses, shortly said, anything you can think of and you need at any given time is likely to be found in a 'borrow shop' that now earns land in many countries. These stores, meant for barter between people ... read entire article »
