Insight: More solar firms set to burn up as prices sink
By Matt Daily and Nichola Groom (Reuters) - Only four years ago, hundreds of start-ups optimistically built factories and churned out solar panels to meet rising demand. Now, closures and failure loom for many. The brutal shakeout is a dramatic reversal for an...
Total merges solar units, ups SunPower stake
(Reuters) - U.S. solar panel maker SunPower Corp, a unit of French oil major Total, said it had agreed to buy Total-owned Tenesol for $165.4 million in cash in an expected deal that will regroup the French group's solar business under one umbrella. Total announced the...
UK solar plants boom ahead of subsidies cut
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of solar panel installations in Britain doubled in less than two months until December to 230,000 projects, government data showed, as developers scrambled to benefit from higher state subsidies ahead of a 50 percent cut. Solar projects...
INTERVIEW-Islamists set to quit Algerian govt, push reform
* Islamist MSP party set to quit government coalition * MSP wants constitutional reform limiting president's role * Says lack of reform may lead to instability By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Boosted by the success of peers in the region, a leading...
Arab spring News of the day : Dec 26, 2011
Life after the Arab spring The Guardian Twitter and a few blogposts in Arabic and French were reporting that a man had allegedly burned himself alive and protests were erupting throughout the country. There was nothing. Today, the Arab springdominates the Arab...
Arab spring News of the day : Dec 27, 2011
Equality must be the legacy of the Arab spring The Guardian As Islamist parties gain majority votes in post-revolution elections in theArab world, they have said all the right things to assure people of their of moderate, open-minded credentials. Plurality is the...
Zuari Industries, Mitsubishi to buy mine in LatAm
THE ECONOMIC TIMES Nidhi Nath Srinivas, ET Bureau NEW DELHI: Fertiliser manufacturer Zuari Industries is buying into a rock phosphate mine in Latin America through a new joint venture with Japan's Mitsubishi to create an assured supply of raw material for making...
Lax Security Exposes Voice Mail to Hacking, Study Says
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN BERLIN — It may be tempting to view the illegal interception of telephone voice mails, a practice that has roiled Britain and the News Corp. media empire of Rupert Murdoch, as an arcane tool employed by scofflaw journalists with friends in Scotland...
ICIEC capital increase set to boost underwriting business in Kingdom
By MUSHTAK PARKER | ARAB NEWS The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Export Credits and Investment (ICIEC), the standalone export credit agency (ECA) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, received a major boost for 2012 when Saudi Arabia recently...
Thousands march in Casablanca
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) Several thousand people took to the streets of Casablanca on Sunday to press for deeper political reforms, saying recent changes did not go far enough. The protesters, mobilising on a call from the so-called February 20 pro-democracy...