Finances work keep more travelers close to home
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- Finances work keep more travelers close to home
- While you’re away the office will be okay
- Microsoft Gives New Detail f Services Transformation
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- Home > Business > Phatra upbeat on private fund SET
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Finances work keep more travelers close to home
Denver Post – Jul 27, 2007
“I’m not in a situation where I can afford more than that” says Lopez a customer service specialist for Best Buy in Hialeah Fla. More people are finding tight finances and work overload are affecting their ultimate way of achieving balance — vacation. Whether they can’t afford it or are too overwhelmed new research shows workers are taking shorter vacations staying closer to home turning work trips into family getaways and using technology to work while away. The relaxed two-week family vacation is becoming a thing of the past according to recent studies by rbitz and the Travel Industry Association. Three and four day getaways are now the most common way for Americans to take some time off. “ur sense is that people are busier than ever with their lives their family activities their kids” said Jeanenne Diefendorf of rbitz. “So they find it difficult to take an extended vacation and easier to balance if they’re only gone a couple of days.
While you’re away the office will be okay
cnn.com – Jul 27, 2007
" Make it clear to your boss (and HR) which you are taking. A young and inexperienced friend of mine (let’s call him Gram Sobart) once calculated that if he said he was "working from home" he could score an extra three-day weekend. His boss oddly enough took the whole "working from home" business literally and called Gram throughout the day. Meanwhile Gram was on a fishing boat in the Atlantic neither working nor at home. If I – I mean my friend – had simply taken a vacation day or a personal day he would have been able to hunt for striped bass in peace and his boss wouldn’t have been ticked off that his employee was AWL. Get approval in writingIt’s important that everyone know exactly when you’ll be out on vacation. It isn’t enough to pop your head into your boss’ office and say "Is it cool if I’m gone from the 18th to the 23rd?" E-mail your boss with your request and keep his or her okay on file just in case on the 17th she thinks she can assign you to finish the spreadsheets for Pumpington Industries.
Microsoft Gives New Detail f Services Transformation
InformationWeek – Jul 27, 2007
Thursday Microsoft announced it had bought online ad exchange AdECN and opened a new researched group focused on applied advertising research. As to specifics Microsoft was short on the product announcements but execs hinted at more potential products than one could shake a stick at. Execs hinted that as online identities proliferate and people get different online identities for work and home Microsoft would introduce products to make it easier for them to migrate settings among identities and devices. CE Steve Ballmer mentioned giving Web-based “click to run capabilities” to “classic Windows applications. ” Jeff Raikes president of Microsoft Business Division said that there was a place online for “traditional office productivity” though he didn’t say whether that meant Web versions of ffice apps or lesser collaborative document editing and sharing capabilities. Kevin Johnson president of the company’s platforms and services division said Microsoft had an aggressive development strategy for search that includes performance and relevance improvements in the next few months. What will all this mean to knowledge workers IT shops and line of business employees? “Enterprises come in all shapes and sizes and their requirements vary considerably and they’ll think about moving to services in different tempos but we’re in a unique situation because we can offer them a choice actually three choices” zzie said… Execs hinted that as online identities proliferate and people get different online identities for work and home Microsoft would introduce products to make it easier for them to migrate settings among identities and devices. CE Steve Ballmer mentioned giving Web-based “click to run capabilities” to “classic Windows applications. ” Jeff Raikes president of Microsoft Business Division said that there was a place online for “traditional office productivity” though he didn’t say whether that meant Web versions of ffice apps or lesser collaborative document editing and sharing capabilities. Kevin Johnson president of the company’s platforms and services division said Microsoft had an aggressive development strategy for search that includes performance and relevance improvements in the next few months. What will all this mean to knowledge workers IT shops and line of business employees? “Enterprises come in all shapes and sizes and their requirements vary considerably and they’ll think about moving to services in different tempos but we’re in a unique situation because we can offer them a choice actually three choices” zzie said. Products like CRM and Exchange that can be hosted by Microsoft hosted by partners or on premise foreshadow this change. For information workers zzie said Microsoft will be looking at extending its software offerings with “connected productivity scenarios” that might include document sharing note taking online presentations and universal access to information.
Home > Business > Sasiprin leaves AYS
Nation Multimedia – Jul 27, 2007
Their resignation will take effect at the end of this month. Sasiprin said he has accomplished his mission laid down three years ago when he and his team started working for the securities company. He is confident with roadmap that he and his team helped shape AYS will continue its business smoothly. Sasiprin said he would set up a personal business which will involve the investment banking industry… Their resignation will take effect at the end of this month. Sasiprin said he has accomplished his mission laid down three years ago when he and his team started working for the securities company. He is confident with roadmap that he and his team helped shape AYS will continue its business smoothly. Sasiprin said he would set up a personal business which will involve the investment banking industry.
Home > Business > PTT mulls $4 bn forward contracts
Nation Multimedia – Jul 27, 2007
8 billion) loans to lock in the investment cost at times of strong baht. PTT Senior Executive Vice President Pichai Chunhavajira said on Friday “We’re also considering if we should buy more dollar for future debt repayment” he said adding that PTT is also assessing the value of its long-term dollar-denominated debt burden as well as dollar-denominated bonds. He said that the forward contracts would help stem the baht appreciation against US dollar. Meanwhile it would benefit PTT’s business financially.
Home > Business > Phatra upbeat on private fund SET
Nation Multimedia – Jul 27, 2007
64 per cent in the first and second quarters of this year. Suvit said serving as a financial adviser for the private fund was the key to boosting overall business. The focus has been on institutional investors but now the company has shifted to acting as a financial adviser to high net-worth clients and is training more staff to support the expanding business. The SET Index is likely to rise to 1000 this year rather than next year as was expected thanks to strong capital inflows. Foreign investors still view stocks here as a better bargain than neighbouring markets by around 30 per cent. In the past share prices in Thailand were 5 per cent cheaper.
Home > Business > Pranda’s expansion in Germany
Nation Multimedia – Jul 27, 2007
In the filing to the Stock Exchange of Thailand the deal is a connected transaction given that Gregor Kroll is a director of both companies and also holds a 49 pe cent stake in both companies. The transaction scheduled to be complete within this month is valued at 25000 euro or equivalent to Bt1. KSV is a jewellery and fashion articles trading company with products under the name “Brand”.
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