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South African gold production drops 23%
Bloomberg
10/09/08
South Africa, the world’s biggest producer of precious metals, said gold production fell 23 percent in August from a year earlier because of an electricity shortage and a protest against power price increases. "There was the Aug. 6 strike by Cosatu that affected mines quite heavily,” Alex Conradie, an economist at the Department of Minerals and Energy, said by telephone from Pretoria today. "The power issues also weren’t there a year ago.” The Congress of South African Trade Unions, known as Cosatu, protested against a 27.5 percent tariff increase by state-owned Eskom Holdings Ltd. to help fund a $44 billion…
13Oct2008 | The Real Deal | Comments Off | ContinuedWould You Like Some Chrome On Your Internet?
With the advent of Google’s foray into Web browsers with Google Chrome, we have yet another contender for the title of Web Browser King. If you’re not a die-hard web user this may not seem like a great title. Some Web browsers are better than others, yes, but these browsers are free anyway, so what’s the point if one is more popular than another. Believe it or not, the business of Web browsers is pretty important, not to mention occasionally profitable. The popular websites of today may also be the operating systems of tomorrow.
Obligatory History Lesson
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3Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | Comments Off | Continued
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