The biggest day ever for mergers of stock exchanges provoked demonstrations in the actions of the operators of New York to Sydney and Sao Paulo as those arising from transactions in shares advance as the engines of growth.
Deutsche Boerse AG’s announcement that it’s in talks to buy NYSE
The biggest day ever for mergers of stock exchanges provoked demonstrations in the actions of the operators of New York to Sydney and Sao Paulo as those arising from transactions in shares advance as the engines of growth.
Translate Google Hits iPhone App
Globe-trotting iPhone users rejoice – the official Google Translate for iPhone is now available in the App Store.
[iTunes link] seems a bit like the existing application Android (launched January 2010) in functionality – allowing users to speak to translate into 15 languages and translate words and phrases in more than 50 languages. You can also listen to your translations aloud in 23 different languages. One can also zoom in on text easier to read, and – a feature that Android is missing.
This formal application essentially echoes the web application functionality, allowing you to view the results in the Dictionary of simple words, and check the translations favorites and history (although not online) .
The iPhone, however, lacks some features as the Android has: namely the translation and the experimental SMS Chat mode, which is supposed to allow you to speak with someone nearby in another language.
Firefox 4 Beta Adds “Do not follow” Feature
Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 11, the latest version of the popular web browser. It not only adds several performance improvements and stability, but it implements a “Do not track” list to enhance user privacy.
Earlier this month, Mozilla has announced its intention to implement “Do not forward” in Firefox 4. Resurrected by the FTC in August 2010, “Do not follow” list essentially allows users to opt-out of monitoring the behavior of advertisers using cookies and other browser-based methods.
“When the function is enabled and users turn it on, the websites will be notified by Firefox the user wants to withdraw from the OBA,” Mozilla’s privacy lead Alex Fowler said in a recent post. “We believe that the approach based header has the potential to be the best for the web in the long run because it is clearer and more universal opt-out mechanism as cookies or blacklists.”
Mozilla supports the approach HTTP header sends more universal opt-out signal to websites. You can check the technical details if you want, but the goal is the same: to give users the ability to tell advertisers that they do not want to be tracked for targeted advertising.
The development of Firefox 4 approaches the finish line. Firefox 4 Beta 10 has been notified two weeks ago, and it should not be long until a release candidate debuts.
China’s central bank will likely need to increase interest rates further in coming months
China’s central bank will probably have to raise interest rates in coming months as the three movements from mid-October leave household wealth being eroded by rising inflation.
The People’s Bank of China yesterday raised the rate of one-year loans by a quarter percentage point to 6.06 percent and the rate of one-year deposit an amount equal to 3 percent. The deposit rate remains nearly 2 percentage points less than the rate of consumer price increases, which savers an incentive to purchase goods and assets.
“There is still a substantial amount of hard work to do in terms of rates – at this stage of the cycle, the fact that we still have negative real rates is very alarming,” said Glenn Maguire, chief Asia economist at Societe Generale SA in Hong Kong and a former adviser to the government of Australia.
government of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has yet to return the fees to the levels before the crisis, trying to keep the economic recovery to a growth of around 10 percent. With the danger of overheating in the first half of the year, policy makers tend to raise their benchmark indices, the banks to allocate more money to the reserves and let the yuan rise to curb price pressures, Wang Qing, an economist at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, wrote in a note yesterday.
Yuan rises
Interest rate swaps rose. The Shanghai Composite Index of shares fell 0.9 percent. The yuan closed unchanged at 6.5938 per dollar in Shanghai, after advancing as much as 0.2 percent.
“The economy has been growing too fast” and political leaders are “behind the curve,” said Andy Xie, an independent economist who previously worked for Morgan Stanley, television news in Hong Kong.
rates in China is still 2.5 percentage points below what they should be in the midst of rising labor costs, energy and food and a “huge bubble in the housing market, he said.
The central bank moved into the last day of a week’s vacation and before a report next week that may show consumer prices rose 5.3 percent in January.
That pace is slower than the most recent inflation rates in the Group of 20 countries including Brazil, Russia, India and Argentina, where consumer prices rose by 10.9 percent in December from a year earlier.
‘Anxiety’ Extra
“A rate increase was expected, but since it was delayed until the end of Chinese New Year, which created anxiety about the potential seriousness,” says Gavin Parry, executive director Parry International Trading Ltd. in Hong Kong. “Now that the uncertainty is removed, the markets may focus on trade in January, producer prices and consumer price data, the next week.”
Government hopes that next week the numbers are also forecast to show export growth accelerated in January producer prices advanced at a faster pace.
Shanghai stock index has lost 5.9 percent last year, partly on concern about the impact of the efforts of political leaders to clear a housing bubble in the loan market after registration. The MSCI Asia Pacific index rose 21 percent in that period compared.
A drought that threatens grain production and an increase in loan New Year add to the risks of inflation after the money supply increased by over 50 percent in two years. Economic growth accelerated in the fourth quarter at a rate of 9.8 percent.
Premier Campaign
In addition to the increases in rates and bank reserve requirements, inflation Wen campaign against extending the sales of state food reserves, subsidies for low-income people, and repression in speculation and hoarding.
China 0.75 percentage point increase in rates of one year from the global financial crisis compare with India to increase borrowing costs seven times for a total of 1.75 percentage points. In South Korea, where lawmakers are meeting this week to decide on rates, borrowing costs increased 0.75 percentage points so far.
Isaac Meng, a Beijing-based economist for BNP Paribas, said yesterday that he expected “rapid hardening, with rates rising as much as another 1.5 percentage points. Before the financial crisis, the rate of one-year loans was 7.47 percent, 1.41 percentage points above the level that comes into effect today.
On the move yesterday, the central bank raised rates for long-term deposits rather than loans. For savers, the increase was up 45 basis points for deposits of five years.
McDonald’s, Starbucks
“The goal is to encourage savers to keep their money in bank deposits instead of going to the shares or assets,” said Mark Williams, London-based economist with Capital Economics Ltd.
Companies Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Starbucks Corp. and McDonald’s have raised prices. While wages are also climbing, Chinese consumers are more concerned about inflation than at any time in the last decade, according to a central bank survey released in December.
China’s government aims to keep inflation at 4 percent this year, state broadcaster CCTV reported in December. Officials also want to limit the risk of property bubbles in a flooded the economy with cash.
The foreign exchange reserves of China, the world’s largest, rose a record 199 billion U.S. dollars in the fourth quarter of 2.85 trillion U.S. dollars, and banks extended 7.95 trillion yuan (1.2 billion) of new loans last year, exceeding the government target maximum of 7.5 trillion yuan.
‘Ugly’ Number
The new loans may have increased to 1.2 trillion yuan in January. In December, the amount was only 481 billion yuan, a difference that reveals a pattern of lending banks more at the beginning of each year.
The government knows the January inflation “look ugly” and wants to be seen as acting in the period before the annual meeting of the National Popular Assembly, the lawmaking body of the country in early March, said Ma Jun, the Deutsche Bank AG, the chief China economist.
Inflation is largely driven by food costs. State Council said China must do more to ensure stable grain production, including by raising the minimum purchase prices for rice, state radio reported today.
The drought hit parts of the country could reduce grain output and undermine efforts to stabilize prices, Premier Wen said last week.
Last month, a jump in consumer spending before the Lunar New Year holidays and bad weather that damaged crops may have contributed to a higher inflation reading.
- Li Yanping, Shamim Adam, assisted by Darren Boey, Miguel Munoz, Jay Wang, Li Aquino Kristine and Susan. Editors: Paul Panckhurst, Josh Fellman.
Facebook opens an office in Hong Kong
Facebook plans to open a sales office in Hong Kong ad in order to strengthen its presence in the region.
This decision comes shortly after the visit of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO of China, where he was seen visiting the Beijing headquarters of the search engine the biggest in China, Baidu.
“By continuing to increase our presence in the region, Facebook will be able to provide full support directly to advertisers here and help them create and execute campaigns that will have a significant impact on their business, ” said Blake Chandlee, Vice-President and Commercial Director Asia Pacific, Latin America and emerging markets.
Facebook has been banned in mainland China since 2009, but is available in Hong Kong and Taiwan. This latest move from Facebook is another step toward conquering the Asian market, after opening an office in Singapore in September 2010.
Y Combinator is backing Chirply Threadless for paper products
You're probably tired of going back to Hallmark time and again by the same letters seriously grandmother has been sending for years, and I would be surprised if we are running out of occasions that demand a card with a single-line cheese or a stanza of poetry corny. Fortunately, YC-backed Chirply, which starts this week, is breathing new life into greeting cards - and notebooks and wrapping paper - by creating a community of origin, where designers can submit new ideas for products paper. Users like you can vote on their favorite designs, which the ideas that receive the highest number of votes became champion and became real products, live and printed by Chirply team.
But Chirply model is not just copy and paste Ye Olde crowdsourcing in the paper industry, is offering "crowdsourcing" with a financial incentive. Designers whose ideas collect the most votes are awarded a prize of $ 300, plus an additional 10 cents for each printed with your design. Compared with Hallmark, which does not accept unsolicited artwork for their cards and pay their staff and designers commissioned a flat rate with no chance of royalties, Chirply is opening the field to budding designers there trying to see their ideas come to life. What's more, according to the founders Chirply as sales increase, so will the size of the awards, so you can finally put the study of art degree to work! For money!
In the spirit of giving, TechCrunch Chirply offers readers the opportunity to request a free card that can be done in TC unique landing page here. One per person, please do not get greedy.
Although Chirply co-founders and brothers Palrecha Neel Gagan and technology have a history - Gagan was an employee at the beginning of Loudcloud and Vontu engineer - told TechCrunch that it reserves the bands in the basement early in high school and even founded a label, so they know what it is to support artists. Or in this case, the designers.
Still, the Palrechas know what they are against it, saying that Hallmark spends $ 60 million a year in the design of their cards and companies like Threadless have made one or two dollars in the space of clothes, "crowdsourcing," Sure, role in general, is not sexy, so that a large majority of companies go after crowdsourced t-shirts, but the industry greeting card industry is a $ 10 billion in the U.S., "said Gagan TechCrunch. Although Chirply has jurisdiction in the landscape and sites like Tiny Prints Minted arrivals, for example, specializes in the sell greeting cards. Chirply, however, the views of articles of paper space as a green field. Those competitors that do not exist or have found their niche, specializing in gift paper, cards or selling in large quantities.
Chirply also expects to beat its competitors by offering competitive pricing, quality design and heavier weight. Your cards are sold at $ 4 per piece and $ 30 for a set of 10, to compare this with Papyrus, for example, which sells similar cards from $ 6 to $ 10. While Papyrus offers a selection of cards for under $ 4, the card stock is cheaper and the options are mainly to seal designs hash again. Not to mention, if you are sensitive to green, all products will Chirply post-consumer waste and green to the gills, and if you are a design snob, you'll be glad to know that your cards printed on paper 120 pounds instead of £ 80 Now that the actions of stalwart.
Chirply plans to eliminate high overhead costs, avoiding the brick and mortar stores, the performance of all businesses online through their website. Paper products will be tangible and digital, but do not expect their stores to be anything other than the type of Internet.
Chirply launching this week will open the forum to design presentations, and presentations will be open to the general public (and ongoing) thereafter. Also offer the most exclusive products and competitions, as a design company with such a to-be-named comic book to be launched in the near future. Palrecha did not say what, but I hope I can send my father Mr. Freeze card sometime soon.
Finally, although you may spend most of their time punking your friends with Someecards, Chirply allowed to vote for the best card in the slogans and messages were printed on their cards so that its implementation starting with few resources can send personalized Christmas cards for the local venture capital and angels. Just in time for Valentine's Day!
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‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier returns to Haiti after decades in exile
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Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Haiti’s former dictator, returned unexpectedly Sunday to the country after some 25 years in exile.
He arrived in the Haitian capital as the nation is grappling with a political crisis, sparked by fraud allegations in a presidential election. It was not immediately clear why the former leader returned.
Duvalier, wearing a dark suit and tie, greeted supporters at the busy Port-au-Prince airport. He had traveled with his wife.
The Duvalier family ruled Haiti for three decades starting in 1957, when Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier was elected president. He later declared himself president for life. When he died in 1971, he was succeeded by his 19-year-old son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier.
The younger Duvalier held onto power for 15 years before a revolt forced him to flee the country. He has been living in France.
The United Nations restricted the movement of its staff in Port-au-Prince until further notice, or until the impact of Duvalier’s arrival becomes clear, said Patrick Hanson, a security officer for the United Nations in Haiti.
While groups of people have gathered in various parts of the city, they are calm and no violence has been reported, he said.
Last week, Haiti marked the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake that left more than 200,000 people dead.
The January 12 anniversary of the catastrophe, as Haitians call it, comes as the Caribbean nation faces new crises: a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 3,700 people and a political impasse sparked by allegations of election fraud in the nation’s presidential balloting.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council released preliminary election results in early December that gave former first lady Mirlande Manigat a win with 31.4% of the vote. Jude Celestin, President Rene Preval’s handpicked successor, came in second with 22.3% while popular musician Michel Martelly was third with 21.8%.
However, a review of the results, conducted by an Organization of American States monitoring team, said in actuality Martelly had won 22.2% of the vote to Celestin’s 21.9%, affording Martelly a spot in a runoff election with Manigat.
A runoff, originally scheduled for Sunday, was postponed. Haiti’s constitution mandates a new presidential term starting on February 7. It is unclear whether that will happen.
He arrived in the Haitian capital as the nation is grappling with a political crisis, sparked by fraud allegations in a presidential election. It was not immediately clear why the former leader returned.
Duvalier, wearing a dark suit and tie, greeted supporters at the busy Port-au-Prince airport. He had traveled with his wife.
The Duvalier family ruled Haiti for three decades starting in 1957, when Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier was elected president. He later declared himself president for life. When he died in 1971, he was succeeded by his 19-year-old son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier.
The younger Duvalier held onto power for 15 years before a revolt forced him to flee the country. He has been living in France.
The United Nations restricted the movement of its staff in Port-au-Prince until further notice, or until the impact of Duvalier’s arrival becomes clear, said Patrick Hanson, a security officer for the United Nations in Haiti.
While groups of people have gathered in various parts of the city, they are calm and no violence has been reported, he said.
Last week, Haiti marked the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake that left more than 200,000 people dead.
The January 12 anniversary of the catastrophe, as Haitians call it, comes as the Caribbean nation faces new crises: a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 3,700 people and a political impasse sparked by allegations of election fraud in the nation’s presidential balloting.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council released preliminary election results in early December that gave former first lady Mirlande Manigat a win with 31.4% of the vote. Jude Celestin, President Rene Preval’s handpicked successor, came in second with 22.3% while popular musician Michel Martelly was third with 21.8%.
However, a review of the results, conducted by an Organization of American States monitoring team, said in actuality Martelly had won 22.2% of the vote to Celestin’s 21.9%, affording Martelly a spot in a runoff election with Manigat.
A runoff, originally scheduled for Sunday, was postponed. Haiti’s constitution mandates a new presidential term starting on February 7. It is unclear whether that will happen.
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