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...Panama, Swedish-Panamanian entrepreneur Nils Petterson is set to open @Altec Cyber Park, Latin America's first hosting provider, which will be able to store 600,000 different sites on its 10,000 servers. For the first time, Latin Americans won't have to waste precious minutes reaching computers in Europe or the U.S. for websites stored there. Access, says Petterson, will be 300 times as fast and 50 times as cheap. Both these projects are helping build an Internet backbone that will speed up data transfer and bring down the cost of metered calls. New satellite and cable technologies...
...rate on stock-option earnings from 40% to 26%--responded with an unsuccessful campaign to hike the tax rate an additional 10 percentage points, to 50%. A subsequent report by two socialist legislators recommended that the option tax rate be lowered, but also proposed new requirements for companies to open the books on executives' compensation--details that most French firms have long preferred to keep secret...
When the municipality of Shanghai invited the city's leading society figures to a sneak preview of its new art museum last month, more than a celebration of culture was involved. Scheduled to open in November, the colonial-era building once used as a police storeroom and now renovated with state-of-the-art lighting and sleek marble and wood walls is also part of a challenge by the country's largest commercial city to Beijing for the title of China's cultural capital. The multimillion-dollar Shanghai Art Museum, which houses traditional and contemporary Chinese paintings, was only...
...Right. It's hard to resurrect things after anticompetitive practices. But our remedies will keep the door open for other cross-platform products in the future. That's critical, because a whole bunch of new technologies could develop soon if Microsoft's anticompetitive tactics don't strangle them...
...reforms and then bought their way into his inner circle. Putin is expected to strengthen tax collection, which may not please the money men who signed off on his rise to power, but the extent to which he'll challenge their grip on political and economic power remains an open question. The think tank preparing his economic package is composed mostly of highly regarded liberal economists, and Putin may even spend some of the nationalist political capital he established in his Chechnya campaign - and in rebuffing Western complaints over human rights violations there - to force Russians to swallow some more...