Ethanol switchover could stoke gasoline prices
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- Ethanol switchover could stoke gasoline prices
- China’s mobile firms besieged by Nokia
- Banner-ad upstart takes on search giants
- US-India talks on curbing terror
- Harbourfront II not worth the risk
- Growing demand for non-food crops
Ethanol switchover could stoke gasoline prices
MarketWatch – Apr 18, 2006
EDT April 18, 2006
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The drive to produce cleaner-burning fuel could lead to gasoline price spikes in some areas of the country as ethanol markets remain tight throughout the summer, government and industry officials are warning. These hikes would be on top of the 25-cents-a-gallon average increase in prices at the pump already expected this summer compared with last year, according to the Energy Department. Ethanol is a home-grown renewable fuel made primarily from corn feedstock that can be blended with gasoline to make it burner cleaner. In August 2005 President Bush signed legislation creating a national renewable fuels standard to boost the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol. While the domestic ethanol industry has ratcheted up production over the past year, a number of factors have pumped up demand for the biofuel and created supply concerns. Areas of the country believed to be most vulnerable to spikes triggered by the ethanol rush include Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth in Texas, along with areas in the mid-Atlantic and East Coast regions of the U.
China’s mobile firms besieged by Nokia
VNUNet.com – Apr 18, 2006
Just underseven million CDMA phones were sold last year in the country, a fall of 30 percent on 2004. Foreign firms have invested tens of millions in R&D and manufacturing inChina, sometimes, observers say, as part of tacit agreements under which Chineseauthorities allow relatively hassle-free entry into the market. Some of China’s home-grown manufacturers, such as Ningbo Bird,.
Banner-ad upstart takes on search giants
Australian IT – Apr 18, 2006
In the not-too-distant future we’ll have the capability to do both. ”
But Hostworks faces a challenge in gaining traction within the search marketing sector. The major search portals now operating in Australia use home-grown technology platforms or Yahoo Search Marketing for their pay-per-click listings (formerly Overture). Sensis uses its own BidSmart service and Google has its AdWords platform, while Yahoo Search Marketing supplies listings for Yahoo Australia and New Zealand, ninemsn, Fairfax Digital, Ansearch and AltaVista. Frost and Sullivan analyst Foad Fadaghi said the company might attract customers to its search marketing platform among regional search directory providers. “They may be a good market for third-party paid listing and ad-serving technology because they don’t have the money to compete with technology coming out of Google or even Sensis,” he said. Hostworks is a recent entrant to the web-advertising market, building its business by managing Accipiter’s banner-ad serving platform for ninemsn.
US-India talks on curbing terror
Pakistan Dawn – Apr 18, 2006
India, however, has proposed discussing Pakistan’s role