1   | Steigende Umsätze - trotzdem Entlassungen |
Unternehmer im deutschsprachigen Raum werden trotz guter Geschäftsaussichten voraussichtlich Personal entlassen. Das geht aus einer Studie der Managementberatung Kienbaum hervor. Obwohl jedes zweite Unternehmen für das 2010 eine Verbesserung der wirtschaftlichen Lage erwarten, plant jedes dritte Unternehmen Entlassungen.
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1 | Deutscher Außenminister Westerwelle warnt vor überhasteten Abzug aus Afghanistan |
Nach dem Tod dreier Bundeswehrsoldaten bei Gefechten in Afghanistan diskutiert man in Deutschland wieder verstärkt den Bundeswehreinsatz. In diesem Zusammenhang warnt der deutsche Außenminister Guido Westerwelle davor, den ursprünglichen Abzugsplan in Frage zu stellen.
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1 | Spillmanns strategische Kurzsichtigkeit |
Laut Sicherheitsexperte Kurt R. Spillmann muss die Schweiz ihre Sicherheit als Teil der europäischen erkennen. Alles andere hält er für Folklore und Augenwischerei. Doch stimmt das wirklich? Ist es wirklich besser, wenn wir unsere Armee in ein europäisches Verteidigungskonzept stellen? Ist es nicht naiv, wenn man sich auf die Loyalität anderer Staaten stützt?
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1 | Dalai Lama Related iPhone Apps Censored in China By Apple |
Apple appears to have blocked iPhone applications related to the Dalai Lama in its China App Store, making it the latest U.S. technology company to censor its services in China.
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3 | Drivers should be liable for the operating risk of cars and be insured accordingly. |
Operating a combustion engine with 50+ bhp to move a tonne of metal on the public highway certainly carries much more risk to others than if the person decided to walk.
With an alleged 1.2 million uninsured drivers on Britain’s roads and a new risk concept (i.e. operating risk) to cover, the cycling campaigners’ ally on this could well be the insurance industry.
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1 | Erin Andrews update: FBI served search warrants to Google, Yahoo |
The FBI on Wednesday served search warrants on Google and Yahoo to obtain explicit videos and electronic records involving the man accused of stalking ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
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1 | Catholics Condemn Joanna Krupa's Nude, Cross-Bearing PETA Ad |
The Catholic League has condemned Joanna Krupa’s racy ads for PETA in which she lobbies against pet stores and animal breeding. In the “Be An Angel for Animals” campaign, the Playboy model and Dancing with the Stars alum appears as a nude, winged angel: in one, she holds a strategically placed crucifix; in another, she holds her dog and a rosary.
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1 | FTC Regulates Social-Media Endorsements, Blogger Payola |
The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on blogger payola.
The agency, which protects consumers from fraud or deceptive business practices, voted 4 to 0 to update its rules governing endorsements, and the new guidelines require bloggers to clearly disclose any “material connection” to an advertiser, including payments for an endorsement or free product.
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1 | iPods may have to carry health warnings |
Portable music players may have to carry health warnings under proposals from the European Commission.
Apple, which makes the iPod, and other manufacturers will be asked either to display labels advising users of the damaging long-term effects of loud music on their hearing or to devise a system of on-screen alerts triggered by the prolonged use of headphones at high noise levels.
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1 | Five ways that Apps.gov is a trendsetter |
Apps.gov, a federal government initiative out of the General Services Administration, demonstrates several concepts that have been the dream of many private enterprise IT departments for some time, but have been successfully executed by very few. Here are the five trends that I think Apps.gov demonstrates, and why you should pay attention:
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