Software as services (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
A new generation of Cast Iron's SaaS integration appliance adds functionality that now addresses what you might call the SaaS lifecycle: everything from data migration through to cloud-to-cloud integration.
Sunlight Foundation (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
The New York Times printed a really interesting story today about the coziness between the Congressional Black Caucus and the tobacco industry and how that relationship is playing out in a controversy over a potential ban on menthol cigarettes. Philip Morris over the years has been one of the biggest contributors to the caucus’s nonprofit Congressional [...]
Hip Hop Caucus Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Free cigarettes are no longer handed out at Congressional Black Caucus functions. And it has been years since anyone referred to Edolphus Towns, Democrat of Brooklyn, as the “Marlboro Man” for his campaign contributions from the tobacco industry. But the Congressional Black Caucus has not severed its financial ties to big tobacco. And that can complicate matters when the political discussion
The Heart Scan Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Once upon a time, the tobacco industry likewise was guilty of conducting a widespread, systematic, highly organized campaign to deliver their product to as much of the unsuspecting public as possible. As clinical data mounted linking smoking and health problems like cancer and heart disease, tobacco producers labored fiercely to counter these claims despite darkening public sentiment. When individual...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Shares of UST were pressured Thursday, dribbling down about 5% after the wine and smokeless-tobacco company reported a slip in second-quarter profit and tepid sales growth.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Angolan firm "Sabendoandar-Empreendimentos Limitada" was awarded this year with the World Quality Commitment (WQC) prize, at golden category, whose trophy will be handed over on September 22, in Paris, France, ANGOP has learnt.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
PARIS and MADRID, SPAIN -- 07/24/08 -- 24 July 2008 Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (Imperial Tobacco) confirms that the overall performance of the enlarged Group (including Altadis) for the financial year to 30 September 2008 remains in line ..
Market Wire - Food and Beverage: Packaging and Processing (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
PARIS and MADRID, SPAIN (MARKET WIRE) 24 July 2008
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Imperial Tobacco Group PLC said performance for the year to Sept. 30 is still in line with company expectations, and the integration of Franco-Spanish cigarette and cigar maker Altadis is proceeding in line with expectations. Smoking bans in the U.K., Germany and Western Europe have contributed to industry-wide declines in cigarette consumption, and U.S. and Europe industry-wide...
Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A protracted war of ideas is brewing in Malawi between health authorities and the big tobacco industry over the former's plans to re-in troduce a pesticide, Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (DDT), as a way of controlling the spread of the killer disease, malaria. Like in most parts of Africa, malaria is the biggest killer in Malawi, especially among pregnant women and children under the age of five....
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Two of the world’s richest men, with bank balances that rival the gross domestic product of small countries, are joining forces to wage war against a common enemy – the tobacco industry.
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Source: New Vision 29th June 2008 By Hillary Nsambu BAT ordered to pay farmers sh3b BRITISH American Tobacco Uganda (BATU) has been ordered to pay over sh3b to tobacco farmers as compensation for failure to buy their crop. Justice Fred Egonda-Ntende of the High Court Commercial Division made the ruling on Thursday. The suit was filed three years ago by 3,000 farmers, mainly from Hoima and Masindi districts....
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
British American Tobacco Kenya Ltd has announced Sh790 million pre-tax profit for the six months ended June 30, 2008. This is a five per cent rise over the same period last year.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Russia has threatened criminal action against tobacco manufacturers after accusing US corporations of perpetrating "nicotine genocide" against the Russian people on the behalf of their capitalist masters.
BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Dan, you seem rather confused on the funding of the Heartland Institute. The Heartland Institute does not receive funding from the tobacco industry and receives less than 5% of its budget from corporations. For more information on the Heartland Institute check out the truth squad page, linked under Press Room.
The 2 the latest comments published by users on Tobacco products :
gumir | 05/06/2008
Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) informs that on April 16, 2008 on the special trade floor of regional financial center of Almaty (STF RFCA) in the secondary market sector, two deals with common shares KZ1C05500018 (aUTMK) of Ust-Kamenogorskiy titanium-magnesium combine JSC (Ust-Kamenogorsk) were registered. The deals were conducted with 260 shares at the price of KZT 27,000.00 per each one for the
icelebz | 04/25/2008
J ust a week after being ordered to pay her legal representatives $400,000, Britney Spears needs to shell out thousands more to pay taxes. The pop star's company owes more than $23,000 in back taxes. E! news reports that a document shows that one of the 26-year-old "Toxic" singer's brand-name companies owes $23,589.17 in California state taxes on their 2004 earnings. Franchise Tax Board of the State
