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MIAMI, Oct. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. corporate treasurers, like the rest of the world, are in a wait-and-see mode and are not yet deploying their cash reserves. In fact, they are continuing to build cash reserves for their organizations, according to the AFP Corporate Cash Indicators((TM)) (AFP CCI), a quarterly study that measures recent and anticipated changes in U.S. corporate cash balances. In this environment, companies continued to build cash and short-term investment...

PARIS, August 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications, a member of the NTT Group and the number one Fortune Global 500 telecommunications group, has been a loyal supplier since 1998 to Agence France-Presse (AFP), a global news agency delivering fast, worldwide news. Through its ability to deliver a quality and responsive service, NTT Communications has consistently been able to meet the demands of AFP's increased flow of multimedia-rich content through its low-latency,...

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies increased their cash and short-term investment balances in the second quarter, according to the AFP Corporate Cash Indicators(TM) (AFP CCI), a quarterly study that measures recent and anticipated changes in U.S. corporate cash balances. Quarter-to-quarter, 38 percent of reporting organizations had greater cash balances at the end of 2Q12 than they had at the end of 1Q12, compared to 29 percent that shed cash during the period....

Americans for Prosperity says Obama's health care law is big-government legislation that will result in higher costs, fewer choices, and centralizes health care decisions in Washington instead of with patients and families. Arlington, VA (PRWEB) June 28, 2012 In response to today’s Supreme Court ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) president Tim Phillips released the following statement, “Americans for Prosperity is deeply...

PARIS, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TEMIS, leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, and Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the three worldwide news agencies, today announced that they are greatly expanding their strategic partnership to deploy semantic enrichment on AFP's future editorial console. Covering the world with a combined 5,000 stories a day in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Arabic, AFP required to...

Apa Sherpa, who holds the record for climbing Mount Everest a total of 21 times, has noticed a change on the world’s largest peak. He has noticed that snow and ice are disappearing from the mountain making it difficult to climb. He recently told the AFP news agency: “In 1989 when I first climbed Everest there was a lot of snow and ice but now most of it has just become bare rock. That, as a result, is causing more rockfalls which is a danger to the climbers.” The climb up Everest,...

A move to ban a long list of so-called “dirty words” from all text messages by the Pakistan Telecommunications Association (PTA) has been delayed by Pakistani mobile operators today who are seeking for further clarification from the telecoms authority. The PTA instructed mobile operators to block more than 1,000 words and phrases it deemed obscene from text messages on Pakistani-owned cell phones today. The list of words, obtained by French news agency AFP, included such racy terms as...

  Physicists are hinting that the Higgs-Boson particle, sometimes referred to as the “God particle”, may be nonexistent. According to the AFP news agency, physicists announced at a European conference that a big atom-smasher experiment had shown tantalizing hints of the Higgs-Boson, as the search to identify the particle enters the final stretch with results expected late next year. Physicist Howard Gordon, deputy US ATLAS operations program manager told AFP, “At this moment...

The world's oceans are declining much faster than previously believed, a consortium of ocean experts warned on Monday.Ocean life is "at high risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history," the scientists said in their report, blaming the problem on pollution, overfishing and other man-made causes that are acting simultaneously in ways not seen before.The panel of 27 of the world's top ocean experts said these conditions are pushing the oceans to...

A widespread wheat plague is threatening farms, raising bread prices and unleashing fresh political and economic unrest, according to experts.The disease strain has shown up in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and has hiked food prices in the Arab world, Mexico, Haiti and beyond. "Stem rust, when it goes epidemic, destroys a crop," said Ronnie Coffman, a leading expert on wheat disease and chair of the department of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University."There is...