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Wal-Mart unveils e-commerce site in booming Brazil

SAO PAULO -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc has branched out into electronic commerce in Brazil, unveiling a website it hopes will extend its reach across the vast country, where consumer demand is booming.

Wal-Mart unveils e-commerce site in booming Brazil

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc branched out into electronic commerce in Brazil on Thursday, unveiling a website it hopes will extend its reach across the vast country, where consumer demand is booming.

Wal-Mart unveils e-commerce site in booming Brazil

SAO PAULO, Sep 25 (Reuters) Wal-Mart Stores Inc branched out into electronic commerce in Brazil on Thursday, unveiling a website it hopes will extend its reach across the vast country, where consumer demand is booming.

James Bloom on the booming market for products that use nanotechnology

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Jobs: iPhone Software Downloads Booming

In the month since Apple opened the App Store, an online software clearinghouse, users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone, CEO Steve Jobs told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.

Business of online pharmacies booming

Estonian Tax and Custom Board says that number of Estonians who buy medicines online from abroad has sharply increased.

Global economic slump hits booming Chinese art market

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Overwhelming personal debt has bankruptcies booming

OTTAWA -- A swelling number of individual Canadians overwhelmed by their debts pushed bankruptcies up 17.2% in July compared with a year earlier.

Novell's Linux Business is Booming

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Novell's Linux Business is Booming

Practical Technology: "On a superficial level, Novell's third quarter, which ended July 31, 2008, didn't look that good.

New UN Intellectual Property Chief Cites Challenges of Booming Patents

The incoming head of the United Nations agency entrusted with protecting intellectual property rights today highlighted the urgency of responding to the growing global demand for patent services and the need to examine the future of copyright in a rapidly evolving business and technological environment.

Mercator Lines forays into offshore biz

Mercator Lines has entered the booming offshore segment by contracting its first offshore oil drilling rig to Greatship India, reports DNA.

Is the sun about to set on Spanish solar? (Fuel for Thought blog)

Spain's solar photovoltaic industry is booming, so much so that the Iberian country is poised to overtake Germany as the fastest growing market for solar PV this year. But is this a case of too much of a good thing? The Spanish energy minister seems to think so.

Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale

PizzaFace writes "The Washington Post reports on the booming business of selling your medical treatment records. Today these are mainly records of your prescriptions, but the data warehouses will soon have records of your lab tests, too. The companies selling these records make it easy for insurance companies to avoid risk by assigning each person a health score, similar to a credit score, or by flagging items in each person's history that suggest chronic or potentially expensive health problems. It's not just for insurers, either; employers who check applicants' credit scores will surely be interested in their health scores as well."

SCA's PrizeSuite Offers Businesses Quick, Affordable Way to Compete in Fast-Growing Online Promotions Space

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - September 15, 2008) - Online promotions are booming and expected to nearly triple over the next five years -- surging to a staggering $22.8 billion industry, according to Internet Media Research Firm Borrell Associates. But because of budget and time constraints, many businesses and agencies are currently forced to pass on them. To eliminate these issues, SCA Promotions, the world's leading provider of promotional risk coverage for contests, games and events, has launched PrizeSuite, an online promotions engine that provides businesses with the fastest, easiest, most affordable instant win promotions in the marketplace.

New Mercator report on Brazilian payments

Boston, Aug. 6, 2008 -- The Brazilian payment card market has benefited greatly from the booming consumer credit market in Brazil and the strong economy and consumer spending growth in the country. Since 2001, the Brazilian card market more than tripled its number of cards in circulation, number of transactions, and total transaction value. Today, Brazil is one of the leading card markets outside of North American and Western Europe. If the current trends continue, by 2013 Brazil will likely become the third card market in the world by number of transactions, behind only the U.S. and China.

Entries to online competitions up as consumers start to feel cash poor

The number of people entering online contests in a bid to win some extra cash is booming as consumers find that maybe they aren't quite so time poor after all...

Web networking: MySpace invader does business

A new British dotcom start-up will today take on the might of Silicon Valley in the booming market of social networks aimed at people in business with the launch of Talkbiznow.com.

Betting on Virus Protection: McAfee (MFE) and Symantec (SYMC)

With malware and virus activity on the rise in 2008, this Barron's article postulates that "The $30 billion computer-security industry is booming." But not all security companies are created equal, and the author beliefs that McAfee's (MFE: sentiment, chart, options) prospects far outweigh those of its competitor Symantec (SYMC: sentiment, chart, options) . "Both are reasonably priced and both have fans with compelling arguments. But we have to give the edge to McAfee. The company has a better track record in recent years and, as the smaller of the two, it may well be more nimble."

Nearly half of primate species under threat of extinction

Nearly half of the world's 634 primate species are under the threat of extinction due to rampant hunting and deforestation which has been accelerated due to booming biofuel production, two international groups said Tuesday.

Shaw pics legal in Internet cafes

the Hong Kong-based film library and TV channels group, has struck a three-year deal that will allow its movies to screen legally in China's booming Internet cafés.

Police chief demands online child porn law

The chief of Germany's federal police called on Wednesday for a law to allow authorities to block access to websites featuring child pornography in order to hobble a booming online trade.

Uniqlo Wakamaru Robot Shopping Guide Is Afraid of Americans

We took a trip down to Uniqlo to see how the American invasion of their Wakamaru shopping robot was faring. Not so well. Bewildered by the bustling crowd scurrying around against booming techno music, it had to be led around by hand and had trouble understanding our bizarre alien language. When our intern asked, "Where are the shirts?" it chastely told him not to use naughty language. Hell, it even looks confused. Breathe easy, retail employees, your job is safe. For now. Video by Nick McGlynn.

Apple Launches iPhone University Program

Iphone Instead of saying, "When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut," young'ins may be more inclined to say, "I want to be an iPhone developer" -- in light of the booming success of some iPhone app coders recently. And Apple is offering universities the resources to make wannabe iPhone developers' dreams come true.

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