Higher interest rates will likely crimp the ability of companies in France and Spain to close their competitive gap with Germany, says Standard & Poor’s latest forecast for Europe. Titled “European Economic Forecast: Rising Bond Yields Signal A New Stage In The Cycle,” the report finds that the corporate sectors in France and Spain are

Nokia launches a fully integrated mobile printing service in Europe. The new service enables people to order high-quality prints easily and directly from the device, over cellular or wireless LAN (WLAN) networks, and have them delivered to your home or to a friend. “Remember when you had to drag yourself to the store to have

Motorola announced that it intends to form an industry-wide consortium that will assume stewardship for the OpenSAF project the company announced in February. The company also announced the first release of the open source code related to the project. The consortium also will manage any future development of the OpenSAF code base. Leading companies including

Following a number of years of cooperation, meetic – the European leader in online dating – and Orange are strengthening their partnership in various domains: Internet: meetic has reaffirmed its presence as the exclusive dating chain for the orange.fr and voila.fr portals. Within the framework of this new agreement, the new 2.0 version of meetic

Marfin Investment Group Holdings S.A. (MIG) announced  that  due  to  strong  support  from  domestic and international investors it has decided to conclude the roadshow for the Global Offering of shares for up to EUR5.19 billion ahead of schedule. This decision has been taken by management in order to ensure that early and long-term investors receive appropriate

…neutral rating maintained   HSBC have revisited Marfin Popular Bank’s (MPB) investment case in order to reflect a stronger medioum term earnings growth outlook, following better than expected Q1 2007 earnings and the inclusion of MIG related fees in forecasts and valuation. Overall HSBC have raised their target price to EUR9.4/share (from EUR8.3/share previously) for

Agriculture sector in Europe can better survive if it sets as its goal the production of high quality products, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel said, noting that Cyprus can contribute towards the achievement of this goal. In a press conference she held with the Cypriot Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources