Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger will step down from the post in year 2015, but will remain as an executive chairman till the summer of the subsequent year, the firm has whispered. Mr. Iger, 60, is going take on the position of chairman once John Pepper retires s from Disney forthcoming year.
Chinese employees injured while assembling touchscreens for mobile gadgets, which includes iPhones, have written to Apple requesting it to do more to assist them. Some 137 employees went through adverse wellness effects following contact with a chemical, known as n-hexane.
Seeking to ease concern about rising oil prices, Saudi Arabia's oil minister said his country as well as other OPEC members possess the capacity to produce surplus oil, Saudi Press Agency reported. Saudi Arabia alone has an additional around four million barrels daily, the Saudi Press Agency quoted Minister Ali al-Naimi as saying.
There is certainly a need to make a new ministry of information and communications technology (ICT) to harmonize the nation's ICT policies.
Dasuki Nakande, former minister of information and communications, and chairman of the SCAN-ICT committee established to evaluate the impact of information and communications technologies on the Nigerian economy, said Nigeria's ministry of information and communications gives more focus on handling the image of the country than driving the key policies within the ICT sector.
SCAN-ICT task team was set up by the National Information Technologies Development Agency (NITDA) to measure impact and development of the nation's ICT sector.
Scan-ICT is definitely an initiative launched by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and also the Government of Finland to make accessible high quality information on ICT activities in Africa, which will make an enabling atmosphere for the assemblage of ICT indicators, to be part of the actions of National Statistical Offices.
Speaking at the national stakeholders' workshop on SCAN-ICT Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja, he called for the harmonization of the functions and roles of the various ICT-based agencies within the country.
"The committee (SCAN-ICT) will advise government and our suggestions are going to be captured into the overall national policy on ICT; and our position is that at the end, we hope to have a ministry of ICT. We'll continue to push until it gets a hearing and someone acts on it," Mr. Nakande said.
"One committee was setup by the former president Olusegun Obasanjo administration. The report of the committee was submitted in 2008, but up till now it's not seen light of the day. We will continue to push because we believe ICT will be the driver for all other government policies simply because of the way the globe is going," the former minister said.
BA (British Airways) cabin crew are to be balloted again on strike action after the airline said last ballot was illegal.BA workers voted last month for further stoppages, but the Unite union said it would hold a new vote following a "legal blitz" by the airline.
Due to growing demand from prospective clients for both agency-of-record leadership and the capability to develop successful multi-agency groups, Razorfish, one of the world's largest digital agencies, has endorsed Wes Breyfogle, 40, to SVP, Enterprise Development, Americas. In the role, Breyfogle would manage business development and enlargement over the U.S. and Latin America and coordinate possibilities to collaborate with Publicis Groupe agencies.
If you live each day like it was your last, someday almost certainly you’ll be right”. This was Steve Jobs in his famous commencement speech to Stanford University in 2005 and on Oct. 5, 2011 at 56 it did turn out right for the world-class showman.
His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, P.M. (Prime Minister) and V.P. (Vice President) of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai attended the sixth edition of the Mohammed bin Rashid Awards for Young Business Leaders on Tuesday.
Global marketplaces have climbed and also the cost of oil fall down after Hosni Mubarak resigned as Egypt's president. There were concerns that almost 3 weeks of anti-government protests might have spread across the region and added to marketplace volatility.
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