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China's exports see big increase
China's exports surged 46% in February, figures show, raising hopes of a strong recovery in global trade.

Insurers 'face $7bn Chile bill'
The earthquake in Chile may cost the global insurance industry as much as $7bn (£4.7bn), Swiss Re estimates.

Airlines offer to give up slots
British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia offer to give up take off and landing slots in London and New York, say EU watchdogs.

BA strike talks end without deal
Talks between British Airways and Unite aimed at averting strike action by cabin crew break down without agreement.

China denies World Cup sweatshop
A Shanghai company denies it used sweatshop labour to produce World Cup mascots, as Fifa suspends its manufacturing contract.

EU rule change 'may cut red tape'
Small firms may be exempted from having to draw up and lodge annual accounts, after MEPs approve changes to European Union rules.

China to build Sri Lanka airport
China is to lend Sri Lanka just under $200m to build a second international airport in the south of the island.

German exports fall unexpectedly
German exports fell unexpectedly in January, with analysts saying that the cold weather that month was to blame.

EMI names ex-ITV boss as chairman
Troubled record company EMI - whose artists include Coldplay - has named former ITV boss Charles Allen as its new chairman.

Oil price fall hits Tullow profit
Oil firm Tullow says profits for 2009 fell by 93% but it is optimistic after major new discoveries in Uganda and Ghana.

Cathay Pacific returns to profit
Cathay Pacific reports a return to full-year profit as cost cutting and bets on the price of fuel pay off.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz snaps up debt rescue deal
Photographer Annie Leibovitz does a deal with Colony Capital to clear huge debts that meant she may have lost her library of famous pictures.

Toyota rejects electronics fears
Toyota rejects claims that faulty electronics could be behind its worldwide recall of more than eight million cars.

Car sales see continued recovery
UK car sales in February were up by 26.4% compared with the same month last year, industry figures show.

Pompey axe 85 jobs to cut costs
Administrators at Portsmouth FC start to make employees redundant, with 85 people losing their jobs.

£10m to get students into sport
Universities are to be given £10m of National Lottery money to encourage more students to get involved in sport.

Guidelines for financial journalists


Tough task
Economic challenge for new president in quake-hit Chile .

Dotcom Crash
10 years on from the burst Nasdaq bubble

Royal junk mail
Why postal reforms are good news for direct mailers

Fuel fighters
Boeing wins lucrative mid-air refuelling battle

Haiti challenge
Rebuilding a devastated economy

Lada roubles
Russia hopes a scrappage scheme will lift car industry

UK economy 'still growing weakly'
The UK economy grew by 0.3% in the December to February period, says the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

UK industrial output falls back
Industrial production in the UK fell unexpectedly in January, dropping by 0.4% form December, official data has shown.

Economic storm not over, says PM
Gordon Brown warns of economic storms ahead but vows not to "let you down" as the date of the Budget is announced.

Banks face harsher stress tests
Further stress-testing of UK banks will take place to ensure they can survive a 'double-dip' recession, regulators say.

Smaller losses at Northern Rock
Northern Rock says that it made "good progress" in 2009, after reporting a sharp fall in its annual losses.

British Gas faces strike ballot
British Gas workers are to vote in a strike ballot over allegations of bullying by management, and on changes to working conditions.

SA starts World Cup countdown
With 100 days to the World Cup, South Africans talk about their hopes and fears for the tournament

Zimbabwe move on firms' ownership
A Zimbabwean law that forces companies to sell a majority stake in their businesses to indigenous people comes into effect.

Northrop and EADS exit tanker bid
Northrop Grumman and EADS pull out of bidding for a $35bn US Air Force air-to-air refuelling tanker contract.

US borrowing rises unexpectedly
Borrowing by US consumers rose for the first time in a year in January according to figures released by the Federal Reserve.

Shell in joint bid for gas firm
Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina launch a joint takeover bid for Australian liquefied natural gas group Arrow Energy.

Fujitsu row over boss's departure
Shares in Fujitsu fall 2.7% due to a dispute with its former president over the reason for his resignation last year.

Obama backs Greece on speculators
President Barack Obama has 'responded positively' to calls to clamp down on market speculators, says the Greek PM after talks.

Legoland firm sees more visitors
Madam Tussauds, Sea Life and London Eye owners, Merlin, weathers the downturn with visitor growth and expansion plans.

EU: Settlement goods not Israeli
The European Court of Justice rules that Israeli goods made in Jewish settlements cannot be considered Israeli.

Iraq given its largest IMF loan
The IMF is to lend Iraq $3.6bn to rebuild its infrastructure as low oil prices slash its revenue.

India's Essar 'planning UK float'
Indian conglomerate Essar Group is reported to be planning to float on the London Stock Exchange, a move that could raise up to $3bn.

India to review economy stimulus
India's government unveils its annual budget, saying that stimulus measures introduced to boost growth must be reviewed.

Warning on packaged bank accounts
Bank accounts which charge fees for extra benefits may be being mis-sold, the Financial Services Authority has warned.

Banking fraud 'moves to internet'
Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, research suggests.

Payment protection rules delayed
The Financial Services Authority is delaying its plans to combat the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.

Standard Life enjoys profit boost
Insurance firm Standard Life reports better-than-expected profits and unveils plans for a further cost-cutting.

About the company

Ardin Software Oy is an international Software  and ICT service  company based in Helsinki, Finland, with offices in Technopolis  Lappeenranta and in Espoo.

Through our partners in Russia we assist Finnish companies to use high quality and  cost effective Russian SW/ICT resources to

  • implement their solutions with our reliable Russian partners for Near shore outsourcing activities.
  • enter to the Russian and CIS markets with their own solutions.

We also assist High quality Russian companies to offer their services to Finnish and EU market.

Ardin Software Oy is "Local in Finland and local in Russia", as stated in the banner on top.

Ardin Software Oy was founded in 2002. Prior to that, in 1993, Arcady Khotin, one of the founders of Ardin Software Oy, founded  in St Petersburg a software company Arcadia,Inc,  which now has more than 120 employees and customers in Finland and other Nordic countries. Arcadia, Inc. is one of  Ardin Software Oy's signed partners.

The other Russian signed partners of Ardin Software Oy cover many industrial vertical segments (including  banking, trade, telecom etc), all main technologies,  and cover most important geographical areas (including the Moscow and St Petersburg Regions). Presently Ardin Software Oy's partners employ more than 1000 SW developers, architects and project managers.

Scandinavian GroupRusSoft

Presently RusSoft and The Scandinavian Group    are represented in Finland by Ardin Software Oy

Please visit http://www.russian-programmers.org to learn more.

 

Ardin Software's new address and service phone as of 1.6.2008:

ARDIN SOFTWARE OY
Annankatu 7 C 19
00120 Helsinki
Finland

Service telephone number: +358 (0)9 2289 0565