http://www.amcham.no/American Chamber of Commerce in Norwayen-us© Copyright 2005, amcham.no, All Rights Reserved.2010-03-132010-03-13 amcham.no: News360 http://www.amcham.no/image/AmCham.gifhttp://www.amcham.no/ http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3291OSLO -- 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 co3/12/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3292Oslo -- 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.As announced 3/12/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3288Norges 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 virksomheter har i å3/11/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3289Advent Software, Inc., a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, yesterday announced Advents acquisition of Goya, a privately held Norwegian software p3/11/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3290Norway 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 manufactu3/11/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3287HOUSTON -- 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 cal3/10/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3285Oslo – 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 smoking in the 3/9/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3286Harris 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 agencys3/9/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3281Lockheed 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 wa3/8/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3282“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 transportation agreem3/8/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3283ALVISO, 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 co3/8/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3284En 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 skjer i Oslo. H3/8/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3279Speech by Svein Gjedrem, Governor of Norges Bank, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C.3/2/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3280Fertilizer maker CF Industries relaunched a hostile bid worth $4.75 billion to buy rival Terra Industries in a move to break up Terras planned takeover by Norways Yara International.CF, which had call3/2/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3273Statoil 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 authoriti3/1/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3274While 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, 3/1/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3275The 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. In 2007, after 3/1/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3276The 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.Unem3/1/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3277Petoro, which manages the Norwegian states 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 3/1/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3278The 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 Nor3/1/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3266RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and OSLO -- The Hamner Institutes at Research Triangle Park has signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding with the Oslo Cancer Cluster in Oslo, Norway, one of the leadin2/19/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3267Lockheed Martin Corp. says it has reduced delays in the development phase of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet to about 13 months. Thats far less than the 30-months earlier feared and puts the program2/19/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3268OSLO -- Ping Identity(R), the leader in Internet Identity Security, and Acando, one of Northern Europes leading Management and IT consultancy companies, today announced a partnership to simplify and s2/19/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3269The United States Coast Guard has ordered a Kongsberg Maritime EM 122 deep water multibeam echo sounder for use aboard the icebreaker Healy, the largest vessel in its fleet. Although a Coast Guard Cut2/19/2010 http://www.amcham.no/news/news.asp?id=3270The certification process was conducted throughout 2009, and was according to the hotel chain’s website the single most comprehensive project Choice Hotels Scandinavia has ever gone through. In the en2/19/2010