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French firms work on anti-pirate ship of the future
Blind them with light, drench them with water cannons or deafen them with sound blasts: these are some of the on-board anti-pirate features that figure in a project being developed in France.

I. Coast leader urges French firms to invest
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Friday urged French companies to resume investing in the west African country less than a year after his predecessor was ousted in a bloody conflict.

Chinese firms snap up investments in Europe, but snub eurozone debt
Chinese companies and funds have ramped up investment in crisis-hit Europe, buying utilities, energy firms and even luxury yacht makers, but are steering clear of eurozone debt.

Hutch to buy Orange Austria as Asia firms shop in Europe
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Hutchison 3G will buy Orange Austria from France Telecom and a private equity fund in a deal valued at 1.3 billion euros including debt, expanding the corporate footprint in Europe of one of Asia's richest men. The deal by the unit of Hutchison Whampoa follows a cluster of outbound M&A transactions from Asia in early 2012 as firms with large cash piles and low ...

Small firms urged to be brave and bold
The hi-fi boss who says small firms need to be unique

Firms Face Fines as Much as 2% of Sales Under EU Privacy Law
Companies face fines as high as 2 percent of yearly global sales for mishandling or losing personal data under an overhaul of European Union privacy rules.

Iranian arms smugglers using European ship firms: study
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Iranian traffickers, trying to dodge an embargo imposed by Western nations over Iran's nuclear program, are smuggling weapons on container ships owned by firms from the countries that imposed the sanctions, a think-tank said on Monday. Before 2008, when the United Nations toughened arms embargoes on Iran, the majority of arms and dual-use goods shipments to and from Iran ...

France's Hollande targets rich in tax-rise manifesto
PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande says he will raise taxes on banks, big firms and the rich to help him wipe out the public deficit while pumping more funds into education and state-aided job creation if he wins power in May.

France Leads The Way
February 4, 2012: The Western arms embargo (because of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre) against China is crumbling. France is leading the way. European firms are particularly eager to drop the embargo, and some, like France, are ignoring it.

No chance for climate deal unless firms join push: UN
The world has no chance of sealing an emissions cut deal unless companies lobby their governments for an accord, the UN climate chief told the global business elite in Davos on Thursday.

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