PricewaterhouseCoopers and their Chair in Applied Accounting Research at Intercollege are organising a conference on “Business and Environment: Sustainability through responsibilityâ€, on Thursday, July 5 from 4pm at the Cine Studio, Intercollege. The conference will open with an address by the Executive Director of Intercollege, Dr Nicos Peristianis. An introduction to the conference will be
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The local accounting firm of Ernst & Young has announced the promotion o Maarten Koper as a new partner as a result of the firm’s expansion policy, raising the number of partners to nine. “This promotion demonstrates our growth and commitment to develop and promote our experts,†said George Kourris, managing partner of Ernst &
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Cyprus faces a major problem selling its wines to the European Union, Director at the EU Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Development Antonis Constantinou has said, as he presented at a press conference here Commission proposals on wide-ranging reforms to improve competitiveness and boost wine sales. Yiannakis Georgiades, President of the Cyprus Wine Products Council,
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Cypriot skeet champion George Achilleos is currently ranked first worldwide, the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) announced.This is the first time that a Cypriot athlete ranks first worldwide in any sport. Another Cypriot skeet athlete, Antonis Nicolaides, is in the top five of the ISSF world ranking. According to the ISSF homepage, Achilleos has a
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Ericsson announced at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in Geneva that it is collaborating with Stanford University to explore the innovative use of mobile technologies in distance e-learning. Ericsson will work with Stanford University‘s International Outreach Program to bring distance learning to countries in Africa. The program offers students on different continents the opportunity
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Panda Software has entered a commercial alliance with Nero AG through which the two companies will jointly promote their solutions. Nero users in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) will have access to free versions of Panda security solutions, as well as the Panda ActiveScan free online antivirus scanner. Similarly, Panda users will have
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Finnish Internet Service Provider Nebula starts to offer its customers in the Helsinki capital area up to 100 Mbit/s broadband internet connections, using a VDSL2 solution provided by Nokia Siemens Networks. Nebula plans to connect the first VDSL2 customers within a few weeks.“Nokia Siemens Networks VDSL2 is a perfect solution for advanced service providers like
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The Cyprus Cabinet, under the chairmanship of President Tassos Papadopoulos announced the third package of social cohesion measures, worth about CYP 111.4 mln or EUR 190 mln, with plans to increase the tax-free income threshold and raise pensions and cash grants to boost flagging birth rates ahead of eurozone admission and presidential elections next year.
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…EUR300-400 mln income from MIG forecast for MPB  Marfin Popular Bank CEO Andreas Vgenopoulos has said the Bank’s 8.19% investment in Bank of Cyprus is no longer considered a strategic stake and is now being viewed as “flexible†indicating that the MPB is no longer seeking a cooperation leading to a merger. Speaking at
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According to PandaLabs, trojans and adware accounted for 49.6% of infections detected by Panda ActiveScan in June. Trojans, which increased by 0.75% in the month, caused 26.89% of infections, whereas adware was responsible for 22.72%. These figures prove that most new malicious code is mainly created to fraudulently obtain financial benefit. Other types of threats
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