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...pictured) decided to back a matching gift - some €300 million over two years - to young "innovative" companies. To stimulate the economy, the state - known for exorbitant corporate taxes and social charges - says it wants to cultivate firms that have been around for eight years or less and that invest at least 15% of their budgets in research and development. A bill announced Dec. 11 by the center-right government would exempt high R and D firms from paying any corporate income tax for their first three years of operation, wipe out all social charges paid to the state...
...makes no economic sense for the competitors to invest capital at these prices," says Randall Stephenson, chief financial officer of SBC Communications. "We still maintain the network and provision it, and the cost structure doesn't change. From a financial perspective, the model is unsustainable." As long as they are subsidizing their rivals, the Bells insist, there's no reason for them to upgrade their networks, which puts a further drain on the depressed equipment sector, including companies like Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks...
...based Allegiance Telecom, which has $517 million in annual sales and is one of the few surviving small, competitive local exchange carriers that have built a solid business selling telecom bundles to small and midsize businesses. As for the Bells' poor-mouthing, Holland quips, "If anybody thinks they'll invest more money in their networks if they get their monopoly back, I've got some swampland in Texas to sell...
...that insists that all of its services adhere to the strict letter of Islamic law, known as Shari'a. Compliance is neither easy nor cheap. The law, which derives from the Koran, covers all areas of Islamic life, including management of financial affairs. Pious Muslims are not allowed to invest in industries that have ties to tobacco, alcohol, weapons, pornography or pork products. Since the law prohibits banks from charging or paying interest, Noriba and other Islamic Financial Institutions (ifis) instead make money by using a system based on the sharing of capital gains or losses. But even with post...
...you’re going to invest internally, you want to make sure you have the best investors you can get. You’re competing in their business not yours,” Eve Guernsey, J.P. MorganChase’s managing director of institutional investing, said last year...