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SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use

2013-05-21 16:09:55| InfoWorld: Top News

Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers.

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It's crunch time for a climate change deal

2013-05-05 18:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Times of Oman: A couple of years ago the global community came together and set a self-imposed date for agreeing a legally binding deal to tackle climate change. By 2015 we agreed to have a deal signed, and coming into force by 2020. You might think we've been here before of course. Copenhagen, Durban, Doha each annual conference makes incremental steps forward. But, we now have an opportunity, working steadily over this year and next, to seal a deal in 2015. The science demands it. Climate change threatens...

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Petrobras Debt Crunch Buoys Exxon's Prospects in Brazil: Energy

2013-04-12 20:05:07| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Petroleo Brasileiro SA's worst debt position in a decade is boosting chances the Brazilian oil company will step aside and let Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Crunch vote nears that could kill EU carbon fix

2013-04-12 11:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Months of bitter argument culminate next Tuesday in a make-or-break vote on an attempt to prop up the European Union carbon prices, which plunged to record lows earlier this year. A proposal put forward by the European Commission last year to remove temporarily some of the glut of carbon allowances that has depressed the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) was meant to be a quick and easy fix. But opinion is deeply divided and EU sources say a defeat in a plenary session of the Strasbourg parliament...

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