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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...
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Date posted: 12th of March 2010
Source: Doubletree by Hilton
News Category: Travel & Tourism |
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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.
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Date posted: 12th of March 2010
Source: Yara
News Category: Agriculture |
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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...
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Date posted: 11th of March 2010
Source: Great Place to Work® Institute Norge
News Category: Human Resources |
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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 ...
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Date posted: 11th of March 2010
Source: Advent Software, Inc.
News Category: IT & Communications |
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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...
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Date posted: 11th of March 2010
Source: Reuters
News Category: Finance & Investment |
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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...
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Date posted: 10th of March 2010
Source: FMC Technologies, Inc.
News Category: Energy |
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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...
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Date posted: 9th of March 2010
Source: Philip Morris
News Category: Food & Beverage |
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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'...
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Date posted: 9th of March 2010
Source: Harris Corporation
News Category: IT & Communications |
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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...
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Date posted: 8th of March 2010
Source: MarketWatch
News Category: Defense |
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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...
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Date posted: 8th of March 2010
Source: Maritime & Energy
News Category: Energy |
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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...
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Date posted: 8th of March 2010
Source: Conax
News Category: IT & Communications |
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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...
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Date posted: 8th of March 2010
Source: Aftenposten
News Category: Travel & Tourism |
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Multilateral Approaches to Global Challenges
Speech by Svein Gjedrem, Governor of Norges Bank, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C....
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Date posted: 2nd of March 2010
Source: Norges Bank
News Category: Finance & Investment |
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CF Industries Raises Bid for Terra, Tries to Top Yara
Fertilizer maker CF Industries relaunched a hostile bid worth $4.75 billion to buy rival Terra Industries in a move to break up Terra's planned takeover by Norway's Yara International.
CF,...
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Date posted: 2nd of March 2010
Source: Reuters
News Category: Agriculture |
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Go-Ahead for Gudrun
Statoil and its partners in the Gudrun licence, Marathon Petroleum and GdF Suez, have agreed to submit a plan for development and operation (PDO) of this North Sea discovery to the Norwegian authoriti...
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Date posted: 1st of March 2010
Source: NRK/Press release
News Category: Energy |
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Increasing Norwegian Trade with Asia
While Norwegian exports to the US and Europe were reduced by 23 per cent last year, due to the global financial crisis, the sales of goods to South Korea and China increased by more than 40 per cent, ...
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Date posted: 1st of March 2010
Source: Aftenposten
News Category: Statistics |
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Court Decides in Favor of Shipowners
The Norwegian Supreme Court has awarded in favor of the shipping companies that the retroactive tax imposed in 2007 for the years 1996-2006 was in breach of the Norwegian Constitution.
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Date posted: 1st of March 2010
Source: NRK/Press releases
News Category: Shipping & Offshore |
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Slight Increase in Unemployment
The unemployment rate in Norway has increased slightly, but slower than before, and at the end of February it reached 3.2 per cent of the total work force, up from 3.1 per cent at the end of 2009.
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Date posted: 1st of March 2010
Source: SSB
News Category: Statistics |
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Norway's Oil Income Drops
Petoro, which manages the Norwegian state's direct financial interest in the development of petroleum resources, reports an income for Norway of NOK 97 billion for 2009, down from NOK 155.4 billion in...
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Date posted: 1st of March 2010
Source: NRK/Press release
News Category: Energy |
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Record Year for Norwegian Salmon Exports Predicted
The export of salmon from Norway is so far this year 33 per cent higher than in the record year of 2009. The industry believes this trend will continue, and that 2010 will be a new record year for Nor...
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Date posted: 1st of March 2010
Source: NRK
News Category: Seafood/Aquaculture |
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