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Competition Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the competition facet of life. Competition Blog: Global-Competition News 1 Global competition for foreign investment continuing to drive down corporate tax rates: Jul 23, 2007
Competition between countries to attract and keep foreign investment is continuing to drive down corporate tax rates across the world. But initial indications suggest that governments are seeking to make up the shortfall in tax revenues by increasing indirect taxes, which may require companies to shoulder greater compliance and accounting standards. Competition Blog: Global-Competition News 2 China's game makers take on global competition with innovation: July 21, 2007 China's burgeoning on-line game-making sector saw a record 35 million U.S. dollars in export last year, according to a report released at an expo on digital products in Shanghai. The fledging industry also expanded its share of the domestic market, accounting for 64.8 percent last year, 4.8 percentage points more than that of 2005 when China-made games overtook the foreign competition, said the report by the Publishers Association of China. Competition Blog: Global-Competition News 3 AIT dresses up for global competition, heads for the Stock Exchange: July 18, 2007 With several tonnes of equipment shipped into the country and several millions of dollars down the line, Daar Communications Ltd, broadcasters of AIT and Raypower FM chain, is embarking on one of the most comprehensive transformations of a broadcast setup in the country’s history. At the moment, there is a team of broadcast engineers from the United States installing and integrating most of the equipment. And by the time they are through, most of the stations across the country will be on the digital and high definition mode to transmit globally accepted signals. Competition Blog: Global Competition News 4 Global Competition Forces Innovation and Collaboration Acceleration: July 11, 2007 BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To win in a competitive global marketplace, even the best companies increasingly are being forced to fast-track innovation and problem solving, according to Imaginatik plc (AIM:IMTK), a leading provider of innovation process and technology systems. Imaginatik and its Fortune 100 customers have observed consistent patterns in companies that innovate quickly, consistently and effectively. Imaginatik customers include one in five Fortune 100 companies. Competition Blog: Global Competition News 5 South Africa: Global Competition Threatens Local Firms: 2 July 2007 THE South African automotive industry remains in possession of the most advanced industry supply chain, but there is pressure to increase service levels and cut costs to compete globally with other emerging markets. According to the latest supply chain foresight study, sponsored by Barloworld Logistics, South African businesses are searching for ways to deal with the increased volumes and complexities of their supply chains. They are beginning to seriously re-evaluate the nature of their supplier and customer relationships to cope with the challenges presented by rapid and compound growth, and globalisation. Competition Blog Comment: Competition does this to us - it turns our close friends to staunch enemies! It robs us of all our soft feelings for the humanity around and turns us antagonistic toward one another. It is this seed only that grows into cut-throat business competition later in life, employing all the corrupt practices for its own promotion that keeps trying to build a monopolistic business empire of its own. Our business schools are also teaching us the same corrupt practices cut into neat theoretical studies under glamorous sounding titles their of! And then the political rivalry between antagonistic nationalities always keeps the sword of war lurking over the heads of the common masses all through the world! Who had known what Hitler would do to the Jews in Germany? And then who had known what American soldiers would do with the honor of the Iraq prisoners of war? And who knows what else are we going to see on this planet at the hands of global competition with one another in our species, which we are so proud of being a civilized one! I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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