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Marconi wins BT contract
Marconi, the electronics manufacturer, has won a L2bn ($3bn) five-year contract to supply British Telecommunications with optical electronics equipment for its European broadband network. Ma...
Another Romanian soap opera
Once again, we have witnessed a poor-taste soap opera that turned Romania into the world's laughing stock and caused major economic damage. The apparently meaningless scandal within a transp...
Deutsche Telekom and VoiceStream boards approve deal
The boards of Deutsche Telekom and VoiceStream on Sunday night approved the German company's $50bn takeover bid for the US mobile operator. This came despite mounting opposition to the bid i...
Ailing Sainsbury calls in the spin doctors
J Sainsbury, the supermarket group which is expected to report uninspiring first quarter trading, has called in consultants to help it find ways of improving its reputation for value but wit...
What will Romanian banks look like?
How will the Romanian banking system look in a few years? Apparently, this is a difficult question that can only be answered by a fortune-teller. Still, what we lack now for a complete answe...
BA/CA Romania to benefit from HypoVereinsbank deal
Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BA/CA) Romania chairman Dan Pascariu believes that HypoVereinsbank taking over Bank Austria will have a positive impact on the Austrian bank's business in Romania...
Cracks found in Concorde wings
British Airways said yesterday it had detected cracks in the wings of its seven supersonic Concorde aircraft - causing one plane to be grounded - but insisted there was no danger to passenge...
How to become a "regional leader"
Perhaps Mr. Constantinescu's surprise decision to bow out of the race for a new mandate was triggered by other reasons than the ones he cited. Which still could not be ignored, because, even...
You've got mail, G8 mail
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, a self-declared computer novice, could soon be getting a lot more keyboard practice. At Saturday's session of the annual Group of Eight summit, Russian...