NEW YORK/SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics recently offered to buy BlackBerry Ltd for as much as $7.5 billion, seeking its valuable patents as it battles Apple in the corporate market, according to a person familiar with the matter and documents seen by Reuters.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday January 15, 2015
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The Guyana Association of Home Econo-mists (GAHE) is urging local hotels, restaurants and other business houses to “come on board” in an effort to make the March-April 21st Biennial Conference of the Caribbean Association of Home Economists “a national showpiece” that can leave a permanent memory of Guyana as a country of high standards.
Local small businesses facing product-packaging deficiencies will benefit from an engagement with the well-known Jamaican marketing communication agency Prism Communications Ltd, which the entity says will better position beneficiaries’ products to find favour with export markets.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 598’s trading results showed consideration of $170,670 from 4,190 shares traded in 4 transactions as compared to session 597’s trading results, which showed consideration of $2,283,010 from 33,170 shares traded in 22 transactions.
After almost four decades in Canada Jackie Sue-Kam-Ling returns to Linden to sustain her father’s entrepreneurial tradition
Thirty-eight years after migrating to Canada, Jackie Sue-Kam-Ling has returned to Guyana, more specifically to Linden,
The Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest), the lead agency responsible for creating an enabling environment for investment promotion in Guyana is to undergo a wide-ranging overhaul, designed to better position the entity to draw an enhanced level of investor attention to Guyana, Stabroek Business has learnt.
Roraima Airways Chief Executive Officer Gerry Gouveia who has had to weather a storm during the holiday period over the glitches that caused Dynamic Air to twice—on Christmas Eve Day and Old Years’ Day—fail to provide service to passengers travelling to Guyana remains insistent that given Guyana’s circumstances, particularly the need for the country to benefit from more airline service between here and North America, Dynamic remains “a good option” for the country.
The Stabroek Business has begun the year by drawing attention to two modest manufacturing entities that have set out to raise standards in a sector that has been performing sluggishly for several years.
The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) is hoping to stage its first ever major national agro-processors exhibition during the first quarter of this year, which General Manager Nizam Hassan says is intended to bring producers, traders and consumers together in an arrangement which, hopefully, would move the sector forward.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 597’s trading results showed consideration of $2,283,010 from 33,170 shares traded in 22 transactions as compared to session 596’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,100,544 from 47,580 shares traded in 13 transactions.
A Guyanese brother and sister team is in the process of staking a place in the manufacturing sector, with a local wine-making industry that has proceeded in fits and starts, over the years.
The South American Coco Company may still be some distance away from the big leagues in what is now a rapidly expanding and, these days, is a global multi-million dollar industry—the manufacture and marketing of coconut byproducts—but Lois Rickford, proprietor of the two-year-old West Coast Berbice-based enterprise believes her business is headed in the right direction.
Up to late on Wednesday evening city traders were still awaiting the anticipated wave of Christmas shoppers which, many of them concede, has failed to materialize.