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Airbus announced that they will be able to finance the development of their new A350 XWB wide-body aircraft without any government subsidies. The United States government had been preparing to file a suit against Airbus in the World Trade Organizati

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Last week was a dramatic one for Thailand's economy. Monday, Thai bank regulators put new rules into effect requiring banks to keep 30% of new foreign currency deposits for at least a year in order to slow the trading on their baht currency. Tuesday

Wal-Mart、Bharti将携手于印度开设零售卖场

The chairman of Indian telecommunications company Bharti Enterprises has announced a joint venture with Wal-Mart that will let the American superstore chain open hundreds of Wal-mart stores in India over the next five years. Large retailers such as

苹果公司将推出更高音质的无数字版权保护音乐

Computer company Apple Inc. had claimed that it was the record companies decision, not theirs, to offer music on their iTunes service that could only be played on their iPod player. Apple and the EMI music company have just announced that songs from

美国AT&T公司欲收购意大利电信股份

Two North American mobile phone companies are trying to buy a controlling interest in Telecom Italia, Italy's largest telephone company, but there are complications. US company ATT and Mexico's America Mvil have made a combined offer of 4.5 billion

英国一糖果公司巧克力含沙门氏菌遭起诉

The city council of Birmingham, England, is prosecuting candy and beverage company Cadbury Schweppes for manufacturing and selling chocolate contaminated with salmonella bacteria last year. The company recalled more than one million chocolate bars,

GOOGLE挫败微软雅虎31亿美元购得DOUBLE CLICK

Search engine Google has made the biggest deal in their history, outbidding Microsoft to pay $3.1 billion for web ad supplier DoubleClick. Until now, Google's advertising business has focused on small advertisers, but DoubleClick's relationships wit

雀巢花50亿美元收购诺华的婴儿食品Gerber

A chocolate company is buying a baby food company from a drug company. Swiss company Nestle is the world's biggest food and drink company; they're known primarily in the United States for the brand of chocolate with the company's name on it. They ha

苹果侵权赔钱戴尔发烧回收

Apple Computer has agreed to pay a $100 million settlement for a license to use technology patented by Creative Technology Limited, the world's second-largest maker of MP3 players after Apple. Creative sued Apple in May, claiming that Apple's iPod p

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2.2 Presentations Extract 1 Good morning and thanks for coming. Today Id like to tell you about the worlds largest document management company. With a turnover of nearly sixteen billion dollars the Xerox Corporation develops and markets innovative te

欧盟瞄上苹果 称iPod和iTunes捆绑不合适

European Union consumer affairs commissioner Meglena Kuneva recently criticized Apple Incorporated's iTunes service. She told the German weekly magazine Focus Do you think it's fine that a CD plays in all CD players but that a song purchased from iT

业绩糟糕GAP CEO被炒鱿鱼

After a terrible holiday season, American clothing retailer Gap Inc. fired Chief Executive Officer Paul Pressler with a $14 million retirement package. In addition to Gap clothing stores, the 3,100-store chain includes the Old Navy and Banana Republ

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Viacom, the parent company of MTV and many other American cable television channels, has struck a deal with China's biggest search engine to provide television and music content to Baidu's customers. The Baidu search engine has been called the Googl

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The European Union has admitted its last two new members for several years. The EU, a confederation of European countries joined together for greater cooperation on economic, agricultural, and other policy issues, will make Bulgaria and Romania the

惠普电话门愈演愈烈董事局主席被指应辞职

Hewlett-Packard announced that private investigators that they hired to find the source of leaks to the press broke the law as part of their research. The investigators pretended to be Hewlett-Packard board members in order to convince phone compani