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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Apple is again the most admired company in the world

Apple repeated this year as the most admired company in the worlddespite the difficulties faced in the stock market lately, followed by technology also Google and Amazon, according to a ranking published by the magazine FortuneThe creator of the iPhone was hung for sixth consecutive year the gold medal in the coveted list of most admired companies raise worldwide, although in the last twelve months its shares have fallen 17% in the market Nasdaq"Apple has faced some difficult times lately by the collapse of its share price and the failure of his much talked mapping application, "said the publication, which however recalled that the firm directs Tim Cook scored a net profit of 13,000 million (10,000 million euros) last quarter. This represents the company was the most profitable in the world during that period, and it still has a "fanatical customer base" and the two smartphones sold in the world in the last quarter of 2012: iPhone 5 and its predecessor, the 4S. Thanks to that, the signing again to the top of the list of the 50 most admired companies world, in which there is another second Silicon Valley giant, the Google search engine, which also is the company's most coveted by workers. Fortune remember is expected to Android from Google this year than Apple's iOS as the operating system Mobile leader in the U.S. and Canada, while still flowing signature billion from ads displayed in your browser as both the portal YouTube and DoubleClick. 's third place in the ranking is the online store Amazon, a giant is "few competitors in sight" because of its "low prices, efficient customer service and fast growing geographical", according to the magazine. Le follows Coca-Cola, although "soft drinks may be the number one enemy of the battle against obesity " , added the middle, recalling that the company posted double-digit increases in sales in countries like India and Thailand in 2012's top ten ranking ofthe complete coffee chain Starbucks The computer group IBM, the airline Southwest, the investment group of billionaire Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, the entertainment conglomerate Walt Disney and the courier company FedEx.Among the 50 Most Admired Companies in the business world only eight of them Americans are: BMW (Germany, at number 14), Toyota (Japan, 29), Singapore Airlines (Singapore, 31), NestlĂ© (Switzerland, 32), Volkswagen (Germany, 33), Samsung Electronics (South Korea, 35), Unilever (UK-Netherlands, 39) and Accenture (Ireland, 44).

CONTROVERSY | Religious Police ensure compliance Saudi Arabia segregates the clerks with walls 160 feet high


They had already announced the authorities in Saudi Arabia in late January: shopping centers will have to build a wall of 160 cm to separate women from men clerks . He knew that was an imposition flying the name of virtue. "For the privacy of women [working in lingerie shops] is not violated," they said. All that remained was to know the details of this regulation imposed by the uncompromising eye that controls Saudi society and keeps his women in check: the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia), the house mutawas of the religious police. But this week the rules have come come to realize that separation of 160 cm high-qualify now and say it is not brick, but "fixed partition panels"- yes," so high that no one inside could be seen from outside, "says the circular issued by the Haia. It is taken for granted that "women must dress modestly" (as they do, in fact, on duty in the desert kingdom), so the regulation published in the newspaper 'Arab News' also affects it. Moreover, according to the new guidelines, no man can re-enter the 'stronghold' female department stores . That is, it ended lingerie gifts for their wives, which according to a Saudi woman says ELMUNDO.es is "not unusual". Sure, it would make little sense, as the guardians of Virtue, create a physical barrier that if after the clerks go and relate to their male colleagues when replenish stocks bras in the store or make a request at the office. So get in there is strictly prohibited if male. And to fewer opportunities to friction between the sexes, the authoritiesundertake to bring the lingerie section "as close as possible to the door of entry to trade. " Here are the mutawas to oversee compliance with the rule and submit a "periodic report" to his superiors. But as I said to ELMUNDO.es Hisa Hilal Saudi poet-one against which launched a fatwa-"is a stupid rule, so much so that the clerks can not speak to men, but clients are still going to buy." And this is not a trivial matter, because dependent on the rest of the business are men. Only since the end of 2011 the Government imposed a lingerie stores have women behind their desks, encouraged by activists who wanted to buy their pranks and fasteners not to mention sizes with the opposite sex. The only explanation is the Saudi journalist Eman Al Nafjan this regulation is that with him "the mutawas try to put every possible obstacle to not work. want us to do from home, the government will pay us if we stay in our homes" . But while the religious police hinders the incorporation of women into the workplace, the King and the Government, however, are determined to increase its small share (15%) with all the means at its disposal. In fact, this week has forced the closure of 18 stores in Riyadh lingerie for not being served by Saudi women , according to 'Arab News'. We'll see who wins.

The meeting concluded without agreement between Obama and Congress to avoid cuts in the U.S.

The meeting held on Friday at the White House U.S. President, Barack Obama and congressional leaders to prevent the entry into force of the automatic cuts in public spending from midnight tonight ended without agreement. According to Obama, cuts, worth more than 85,000 million dollars and will be applied gradually over the coming months, will mean the loss of 750,000 jobs and the reduction of half a percentage point of GDP growth. Obama appeared before reporters after the meeting and returned to warn that the " pain "that these cuts will cause hundreds of thousands of Americans" be real ". "The longer stand the cuts, the more damage to our economy, "the president said in an appearance in the press room of the White House. Those cuts are "not necessary" and will be applied as well as the Republicans have decided in Congress, criticized the president. The main stumbling block in the negotiations is that Republicans believe government spending is excessive and must trim more, while Democrats are pursuing a tax reform to increase state revenues to which conservatives oppose. "The discussion on income, in my opinion, is over. This is assuming the spending problem , "he said on his part the president of the House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner, at the end of the meeting with Obama. Boehner said that since there was a tax increase in January , referring to the agreement reached to increase the tax burden on income above 400,000 to 450,000 per year in negotiations that avoided the so-called "tax cliff." This is not a victory for anyone .'s a loss for all the American people, "Obama expressed regret for his part, in his comments on the failure of the negotiations. Congress agreed in 2011 the cuts to force a far-reaching agreement on reducing public deficit higher than 8% in 2012 - which has not yet arrived. Both parties, Democrat and Republican, had filed last Thursday in the Senate two projects to avoid cuts, but neither won enough support to move forward. Barack Obama said Friday that while deficit reduction is "an important part" of his agenda, not an economic policy "as such", so that, along with the cuts, we must discuss how to create jobs. "In Congress and Washington will spend a lot of time talking about how to reduce the deficit, but not on how to create jobs , "Obama said in his speech at the White House. Asked by a journalist who wanted to know why not " locked up congressional leaders in a room "to reach an agreement on spending cuts, Obama replied that he is a" dictator ". "Ultimately, if Mitch McConnell (Republican minority leader in the Senate) and John Boehner (Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives) say they have to go to catch a plane, I can not put the Secret Service blocking their door " the president added. Obama also added, referring to the film series  Star Wars , you can do as a Jedi and bring Republicans to the light side of the force "to convince them to do the right thing."

Qatar organizes pre-marriage courses

With the goal of reducing by 15% the divorces the Council for the Family of Qatar said it would introduce in schools and universities' courses before marriage and family life. 2009 to present a divorce three in Qatar and 'came on the same day of the wedding. According to experts, young people are not at all informed about the married life. Qatar has a population of one million and 900 thousand people, of which only 300 thousand citizens qatarini.

Bieber was shirtless and almost no jeans

It was 6:30 in the morning when a photographer spotted arriving at Justin Bieber at the hotel where he is staying in London and took photographs that appear in today's Daily Mail , one of the newspapers of the United Kingdom, reflecting the end of a long night for the singer of 19 years. After sharing drinks at a club and then finish eating breakfast in a restaurant kebabs Egyptian with a group of friends, now plans to celebrate with the young woman identified as his new girlfriend, Ella, Paige Roberts-Clarke at a party with kitsch, for has hired clowns, fire-eaters and decorated accordingly. But what caught the attention of those present to his arrival was how low his pants were -more than usual-and, atop his shoes -that has not changed radically, and the fact of going to the shirtless , defying the cold London winter weather. Those who are not bothered in the least was to the "believers" who crowded -more-sheltered on either side of the entrance to the accommodation chosen Bieber as a basis for "Operation 19".