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Samsung Electronics has said it’s about a big jump in profits for the last three months of last year report, primarily due to smartphone sales record. The South Korean company said it expects an operating profit for the period up to 5.2tn won ($ 4.5 billion, £ 2.9) are 73% higher than a year.

Samsung overtakes Apple as the world’s best-selling smartphone manufacturer in the second half of last year. The companies have been locked in a series of patent applications fighting in recent months. Analysts said Samsung’s profits were likely to grow again this year. “Samsung is expected to continue to record results this year will improve as income on flat screens and memory chips that make up for any potential slowdown in handset growth rates,” said Lee Seung-woo at Shinyoung Securities.

“Won I would expect profits to grow by one 5tn this year. The company is due to publish its official results for the fourth quarter of 2011 later this month.

Hong Kong Airlines (TCA) has placed an order for 10 Airbus A380 aircraft worth about $ 3.8 billion (€ 2.5 billion) at list prices. The contract will be a relief for the European plane maker, because the order risked his derailed by a dispute between the European Union and China.

Beijing rejects an EU plan to tackle the international airlines comply with a system for carbon dioxide emissions. But Kenneth Thong, HKA corporate governance head, said a television interview, the order would go ahead. The carrier, which has ambitious expansion plans, is likely to have a great discount on the purchase order for the super-jumbo aircraft.

Mr. Thong said the planes were needed to help boost the airline’s growth, particularly in the development of business-class services with Europe. PCA before Airbus A330, which are used for services between Hong Kong and several European cities ordered.
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The business sector of Electronic commerce, is also commonly known as e-commerce, e-commerce or e-comm. This business sector is becoming more and more promising, with a fast growing amount of people getting too lazy or too busy to rush onto the high street to make the purchase. It has completely revolutionized the world of business. With the aid of advance search engine technology and secured online payment system, shopping online are quite popular among a growing customers today.
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The U.S. economy created 200,000 jobs in December for the sixth consecutive month of gains, official figures show. The rise was much more than expected. Analysts had forecast a rise of about 150,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate fell to 8.5%, its lowest level in almost three years, from a revised 8.7% in November, said the Labor Department. Large job gains were seen in trade, manufacturing, transportation and housing and healthcare.
For 2011 as a whole, some 1.6 million jobs were created, which was the highest since 2006, growing out in the private sector. Employment in the private sector rose by 212 000 in December and by 1.9 million over the previous year.

Mr Thompson, previous chief executive of the US internet media company–Yahoo has acknowledge that his strong technology credentials has been tempered by his lack of experience in the media and advertising businesses.
Now the company ended the four-month vacuum left by the sacking of chief executive as it chose president of online payments service PayPal–Scott Thompson to be the next head of the company.
The news drew silent support on Wall Street, while adding a fresh twist to negotiations that have been going on behind the scenes as Yahoo pursues potential deals that could reshape the company and lead to it shedding its valuable Asian holdings.

Though you would think living in the Stone Age was especially awful without your central heating or hair straighteners, the interesting fact is that your distant ancestors didn’t work nearly as hard as you. A lot of ancient historians and anthropological experts think that ancient man worked for only a few hours a day.
Humans as we know them have been more or less the same for the past 200 thousand years. The modern notion of an asset collecting, control freaking humanity has been I n pace for about 6 thousand years. Go back beyond those 6 thousand years, and you will discover that our needs were remarkably simple—Food and Shelter. Without only two key issue to really concern, we will be left with a lot of time for lying around not really doing anything at all. The time that was not spent lounging would have been spent hunting things or foraging for edible roots, nuts, fruits and plants. So foraging is actually one of the most natural and ancient of human activities.
Nothing could be as pure as self-sufficiency. There are so many things around us that simply require you to find them and then eat them. There are also helpful hints and recipes to turn the foods into something more interesting.
If you are good enough with plants, you will be able to pick the right food in your local park and produce delicious food such as blackberry pies, and even sell them to the local market.

Until recently, the footwear retailer–Barratts Priceless employed 3840 staff in 191 Barratts and Priceless Shoes stores, plus 374 concessions of which 359 were in Arcadia Group stores.
However, following the administrators’ failure in finding a buyer for company’s concession business, over 1600 staff at Barratts in the UK and Ireland will be made redundant.