Venezuela Names Temporary Board at Steelmaker SideturBloombergVenezuela named a temporary state- run board at steelmaker Siderurgica del Turbio SA after the government seized the company's assets in 2010, according to a resolution by the Industry Ministry published today in the Official Gazette.and more »
17 February 2012 | 12:50 pm
FourQuants Tackles Online Finance TrainingPC AdvisorThe sales team has been replaced by Google Search which generates 85% of the traffic for the family of sites run by FourQuants. And the traffic comes from the most unlikely of places. Other than China the most page views per visitors (10+) are from ...and more »
17 February 2012 | 7:46 am
Stifling the World Wide WebThe PlatformLast month, if you decided you wanted to 'wiki' how many World Cups Brazil have won, or perhaps have a little 'assistance' on an essay you were writing on the environmental affects of oil extraction in Venezuela, you would have been confronted with a ...and more »
17 February 2012 | 6:00 am
Chinese Loans to Latin America Top World Bank, IDB CombinedBloombergThe governments of Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador received 91 percent of the total, according to a study that will be published in the Inter-American Dialogue today and that was e-mailed to Bloomberg News. China's lending to the region in ...and more »
17 February 2012 | 12:21 am
Empresas Polar Affiliate Files Arbitration Against VenezuelaBloombergGambrinus Corp., a Barbados-based affiliate of Venezuela's Empresas Polar SA, yesterday said that it filed an arbitration claim against the Venezuelan government over the 2010 expropriation of Fertinitro, a group of fertilizer companies.and more »
16 February 2012 | 8:50 pm
BloombergUN's Symbolic Censure of Syria's Assad to Show Its Lack of BiteBloombergThose voting against included Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. In Syria, security forces extended a two-week artillery attack on the city of Homs and the army also deployed armored vehicles and raided homes in Qaboun, ...and more »
16 February 2012 | 3:33 am
Venezuela Pays Exxon $250 Million for Assets After ArbitrationBloombergPetroleos de Venezuela SA, the state oil company, said it paid Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) $250.9 million for assets seized in the country in 2007. The payment settles a $750 million net judgement issued by the New York-based International Chamber of ...and more »
15 February 2012 | 9:10 pm
Venezuela to Begin Presenting Regulated Price Caps to CompaniesBloombergVenezuela will begin to present regulated prices to about 385 companies that produce personal care and cleaning products including Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL), Procter & Gamble Co. and Unilever NV (UNA) today. The government's price regulation agency, ...and more »
15 February 2012 | 7:46 am
BloombergChavez Missing $10 Billion a Month by Curbing State Oil Investment: EnergyBloombergVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez's reliance on state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA to finance government budgets and social spending is forcing the company to delay investments and lose billions of dollars of export revenue.and more »
14 February 2012 | 4:57 pm
Activists And Bloggers Fear Twitter CensorshipNPRBut, as Google learned in China, when you become the agent of the censor, there are problems there," he added. Egyptian activist Mahmoud Salem, who tweets and blogs under the name "Sandmonkey," questioned in a tweet whether Twitter "is selling us out.and more »
27 January 2012 | 11:40 am