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Waiting for Telecom Italia to Turn Around

Rome :: Italy | 2 days ago | Business News

Source: Asian Wall Street Journal

While the latest in a long line of turnaround plans from the Italian telecommunication company provides modest comfort for creditors, there's little solace for shareholders who have seen shares halve in value this year. What Chief Executive Franco Bernabè had...

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Whales and dolphins stranded in noisy seas

Rome :: Italy | 1 day ago | Technology News

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

Call it a cocktail-party effect," said Mark Simmonds, director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, a Britain-based NGO. "You have to speak louder and louder until no one can hear each other anymore." A further, indirect source of noise...

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AC Milan confirm Beckham loan move

Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago | Sports News

Posted by kalex

Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti and vice-president Adriano Galliani revealed the news at Milan's Malpensa airport before the team set off to the Netherlands, where they will play Heerenveen in the UEFA Cup on Thursday. Beckham, who plays for LA Galaxy,...

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Italian rugby federation considering overhaul

Rome :: Italy | 1 day ago | Political News

Source: Taiwan News

The Italian rugby federation is considering various options to overhaul the sport at club level after its national team lost all three of its recent tests. One possibility is offering economic support so teams in Italy's Super 10 can hold...

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Sprint to rejuvenate Nextel Network

Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago | Business News

Source: Miami Herald

Sprint Nextel Corp. on Thursday said it would retain its Nextel National Network and extend its network partnership with Motorola. The cell phone carrier said in a news release Thursday that Motorola, as part of an extended long-term partnership with...

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AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY: Car sales plunged in November

Rome :: Italy | 2 days ago | Business News

Source: France 24

Car sales plunged in November Wednesday 03 December 2008 According to a German carmakers association, new-car registrations plunged 18% in November. The auto crisis has affected other European countries as well. German new-car registrations plunged by 18 percent in November...

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Berlusconi slammed for 'suntanned Obama' remark

Rome :: Italy | 28 days ago | Business News

Source: NewKerala

The 72-year-old media tycoon Berlusconi, on a visit to Moscow, Thursday described Obama as young, handsome and even tanned". Berlusconi said the relative youth of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 43, and Obama, 47, should make it easier for Moscow and...

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Students protest as Italian Senate passes reforms

Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago | No category

Source: International Business Times

Rival groups of students in the historic square, which is popular with tourists, picked up cafe chairs and threw them at counter-demonstrators. Others, wearing motorbike helmets, and with their faces partially covered by scarves, beat rivals with sticks.

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TELECOMS: Telecom Italia will cut 4,000 jobs

Rome :: Italy | 2 days ago | Business News

Source: France 24

Italian telecommunications group Telecom Italia said Wednesday it would cut a further 4,000 jobs in Italy from 2009 to 2011 as part of a restructuring plan. Telecom Italia, saddled with a 35-billion-euro (44-billion-dollar) debt, launched a savings scheme last June...

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Alitalia gets last-minute rescue

Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago | Business News

Source: BBC

Talks had earlier broken down because only four out of Alitalia's nine unions had agreed to the Cai's terms. The Cai had set a Friday night deadline for a deal to be reached over securing Alitalia's future...The investors, the Compagnia...

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