"We Are Young" by indie-pop trio FUN. won Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, the top award for achievement in songwriting on music's biggest night. The song was co-written by FUN. members Jack Antonoff, Nate Ruess and Andrew Dost and producer Jeff Bhasker. "I don't know what I was thinking writing
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Oil and equities dawdled on Monday near multi-month highs scaled after robust Chinese trade data last week, while the euro slipped to a two-week low as uncertainty surrounded a political scandal in Spain and a looming election in Italy. With the Lunar New Year holiday shutting most Asian financial centres, including those in Japan, China,
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French efforts to divert Europe from economic austerity have foundered twice in a week due to German resistance, underlining a growing policy divide that is hobbling the core partnership. Berlin rejected President Francois Hollande's call on Tuesday to set a mid-term target for the euro, a move he hoped would bring the single currency down
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**Markoullis’ formidable talents should be put to good use** Opinion by Fiona Mullen, Director, Sapienta Economics Ltd If the elections go the way the polls suggest, then the foreign minister, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, will be looking for something new to do by March. For all I know she is planning to sit back and tend to
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* Strategic opportunity for LNG trains to Europe, replace Nabucco * The natural gas under the seabed of Cyprus could amount to $400-500 bln influx to the Cyprus economy over the next couple of decades, explained Dr. Michael Economides, a leading expert on energy geopolitics, adding that the financial impact could be in excess of
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* Aims to reach 500,000 accounts by end-2013 * Banc De Binary, the first binary options firm to secure a trading license by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, has set an ambitious target to double its current client base to 500,000 accounts by the end of 2013. Oren Laurent, chairman of the online investment
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Following the success of the inaugural event in November 2011, the networking symposium TEDxNicosia will be back at the Pallas Theatre on March 9 for the second event that will focus on getting people to “Re-Think, Re-Generate and Re-Act.” Participants are open on-line on www.tedxnicosia.com from February 15 to March 4. TEDxNicosia Founder and Curator, Marina
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A significant saving of 43.76% on the production cost of electricity generation was achieved through the completion of the reverse bid electronic auction for photovoltaic licenses, held last week under the initiative of the Energy Service of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism and conducted by the Accountant General of the Republic. Announcing the
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. By Theodore Panayotou Cyprus International Institute of Management The twins of innovation and entrepreneurship, expressed in innovative enterprise, are the only tools that could sustainably get us out of the economic recession and set us on the road to recovery and growth. The technological and business innovation is the ultimate source of productivity growth
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. By Petros Mavros Managing Director, Avantless Ltd., Online Marketing Consultants The opening of new markets in both tourism and land development has always been the spearhead for Cypriot companies. With the Cypriot business acumen having been inherited by the Phoenicians, we have never stopped looking for new markets, as proved by the success of
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