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Weekly Business News First Doubletree by Hilton in Scandinavia to Open in Spring 2010 OSLO -- Hilton Worldwide has announced that it has signed a multi-year franchise license agreement with Key Hotels Group s.r.o. to open the Doubletree by Hilton, Oslo-City Centre this spring -- the co... Read More Date posted: 12th of March 2010 Source: Doubletree by Hilton News Category: Travel & Tourism Yara Does Not Improve its Proposal to Terra Industries Oslo -- Yara International ASA (Yara) has notified Terra Industries Inc. (Terra) that it will not propose an improvement to the cash merger agreement signed 12 February by Yara and Terra. ... Read More Date posted: 12th of March 2010 Source: Yara News Category: Agriculture TANDBERG, SAS Institute kåret til ”Norges Beste Arbeidsplasser 2010'' Norges største sammenliknende arbeidsmiljøundersøkelse har i år kåret TANDBERG, SAS Institute og Miles som vinnere i hver sin kategori. TANDBERG vant for andre år på rad. Over 120 virksom... Read More Date posted: 11th of March 2010 Source: Great Place to Work® Institute Norge News Category: Human Resources Advent Software Announces Acquisition of Goya AS Advent Software, Inc., a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, yesterday announced Advent's acquisition of Goya, a privately held Norwegian software ... Read More Date posted: 11th of March 2010 Source: Advent Software, Inc. News Category: IT & Communications Norway Fund Revokes United Technologies Exclusion Norway has reversed its decision to exclude U.S. industrial group United Technologies Corp (UTX.N) from its $450 billion wealth fund, saying the firm is no longer involved in nuclear weapons manufactu... Read More Date posted: 11th of March 2010 Source: Reuters News Category: Finance & Investment FMC Technologies Receives $62 Million Contract to Support Statoil Marulk Field Development HOUSTON -- FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with Statoil ASA for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Marulk field. The award, a cal... Read More Date posted: 10th of March 2010 Source: FMC Technologies, Inc. News Category: Energy Philip Morris Norway Announces Lawsuit Challenging Norwegian Tobacco Product Display Ban Oslo – Philip Morris Norway AS (PMN) will today start legal proceedings to overturn the ban on displaying tobacco products in retail stores. “Display bans have had no impact on reducing sm... Read More Date posted: 9th of March 2010 Source: Philip Morris News Category: Food & Beverage Harris Corporation and Jotron Team to Pursue $200 Million Next-Gen FAA Radio System Contract Harris Corporation and Jotron AS have teamed up to pursue an anticipated five-year, $200 million Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contract for next-generation radios that will support the agency'... Read More Date posted: 9th of March 2010 Source: Harris Corporation News Category: IT & Communications Lockheed, Pentagon Soothe Partners Over F-35 Delays Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Pentagon assured their international partners Thursday that problems in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program have been resolved and development of the next-generation wa... Read More Date posted: 8th of March 2010 Source: MarketWatch News Category: Defense Statoil Secures Transportation Capacity to US Market “This is an important breakthrough for Statoil’s gas marketing position in the US,” said executive vice president for Natural Gas, Rune Bjørnson. Statoil has recently entered into transpor... Read More Date posted: 8th of March 2010 Source: Maritime & Energy News Category: Energy Conax (Telenor) Partners with TiVo to Offer Advanced Global TV Platform ALVISO, CA and OSLO, NORWAY -- TiVo Inc., a leader in advanced television services and personal video recorders (PVRs), and Conax, a leading global provider of security solutions for digital TV and co... Read More Date posted: 8th of March 2010 Source: Conax News Category: IT & Communications Hilton åpner luksus-hotell i Oslo En av verdens største hotell-kjeder er på full fart inn i Oslo-markedet: I løpet av vårmånedene åpner Hilton-gruppen sitt første eksklusive hotell av typen Doubletree i Skandinavia. Det sk... Read More Date posted: 8th of March 2010 Source: Aftenposten News Category: Travel & Tourism © 2010 American Chamber of Commerce in Norway. All rights reserved.

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