Danone 1H profit up 44 percent
PARIS — Groupe Danone SA’s first half net profit rose 44 percent as the French yogurt and bottled water company said price cutting had helped spur a rebound in volume sales of its key fresh dairy division, Danone said Friday.
SAS plane makes 2 unscheduled landings in Norway
OSLO — Scandinavian airline SAS says a plane carrying 41 passengers made two unscheduled landings because of a problem with the flaps.
CHENNAI - French power transmission and distribution equipment major Areva SA’s Indian subsidiary, the Rs.2,655-crore Areva T&D India, is hoping to double its revenue by 2012, said a top company official.
JOHANNESBURG - The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has claimed that censorship was used to prevent Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, from visiting the country to attend a Nobel laureates’ peace conference.
“It has now been admitted by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel that the purpose [of cancelling the peace conference] was to censor and prevent South Africans from hearing what would have been said,” news24.com quoted Noma Rangana, the chairperson of the SA Chapter of MISA, as saying.
“It is rare for a democratic government to publicly invoke censorship though this… Imposing this ban on the Dalai Lama propagates transparency as one of its major aims,” she added.
“In censoring the Dalai Lama, the government has also censored the country’s media by preventing newspapers, and the electronic media from reporting and publishing the speech of the Dalai Lama. The spurious excuses given by the government for barring the Dalai Lama confirm that the government has caved in under pressure from the Chinese, a humiliating posture given SA’s staunch fight against colonialism,” Rangana said.
In an effort to position Salesforce.com as more of a software platform and less of a sales-force automation service, Salesforce.com and Google today announced that Google will provide its Google Apps offering as part of the Salesforce.com platform.
