As a freelance writer, he has written and co-authored several popular books, among them The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy ( Die Globalisierungsfalle, 1996 ) and Bitter Pills ( Bittere Pillen ) about the pros and cons of pharmaceuticals.

Bombardier is a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate company.

With roots that can be traced back to the opium trade, today, Jardines is a Fortune Global 500 company that consists of Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors Group, Jardine Strategic, Dairy Farm, Hongkong Land, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and Astra International.

The oil company ranked 121 in Fortune Global 500 list of companies in 2007.

State Street Bank and Trust Company, a custodian bank, and its sister company State Street Global Advisors ( SSgA ), which is a registered investment advisor, constitute the principal operating companies within parent company State Street Corporation.

2004 – The company expanded its Microsoft infrastructure management capabilities by acquiring Aelita Software, and won Microsoft's prestigious Global ISV of the Year award for the first time.

The company purchased it from Yorkshire Global Restaurants, which originally acquired it from Fleet Boston Bank after its having gained control of the restaurants due to bankruptcy.

* Liberty Global, a media company and broadband provider

Global Crossing Limited was a telecommunications company that provided computer networking services worldwide and operated a tier 1 carrier.

Annunziata oversaw the rapid expansion of the company, including the purchase of Frontier Corp. at a cost of $ 11. 2 billion, the $ 850 million purchase of Global Marine Systems, and an increase in the workforce from 150 to 14, 000.

In 1999, the company acquired Frontier Corporation, the former Rochester Telephone Corporation, and renamed it Global Crossing North America, Inc.

Global Crossing's stock price had fallen to $ 5 by November 2001, and in January 2002 the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

At the same time, Global Crossing filed a letter of intent to sell 79 % of the company to a joint venture between Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa and Singapore Technologies Telemedia ( ST Telemedia ).

Four of Global Crossing's CEOs received at least $ 23 million in personal loans from the company, some of which were forgiven entirely even when bankruptcy was becoming a greater possibility.

ST Telemedia acted alone to purchase Global Crossing for $ 750 million, buying it out of bankruptcy and terminating Winnick's control of the company.

The Ontario station was soon purchased by the now-defunct CanWest Global Communications, and that company gradually expanded its national reach in the subsequent decades.

Paris is the second most important location in the world for the headquarters of the world's 500 largest companies: there are more Fortune Global 500 company headquarters in Paris than in Beijing, New York, London or Munich, but fewer than in Tokyo.

was created on October 7, 1997, as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. an independent company, as a result of a spin-out from PepsiCo, which owned and franchised the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands worldwide.

It was distributed by Global TV ( Fireworks ' parent company ) in Canada and syndicated in the United States on WGN and other channels.

The company operates in three business segments: Institutional Securities, Global Wealth Management Group, and Asset Management.

An Israeli company, Global CST won a $ 10 million contract in Colombia.

He told the Milken Institute Global Conference in May 2012 that over the next ten years, he plans on transforming the company into a single company that will provide internet, video and phone service for both home and mobile applications.

In 2011, Showtime announced they were expanding their MMA programming by televising events produced by M-1 Global, the Russian PTC company of popular Strikeforce fighter Fedor Emelianenko.

President: Health First Europe ; Vice-President: European Health Forum Gastein ; Chairman: Health Advisory Board, GSK ; Adviser to FIPRA, Policy Action and Hanover ; Board Member: TBVI, Global Initiative on Psychiatry, Gamian Europe, European Men ’ s Health Forum, European Health Academy, European Institute of Health, Sane, Mental Disability Advocacy Centre and Maastricht University European Health Faculty ; Patron: Fund for Epilepsy ; Apex Trust ; Vice President: Diabetes UK and Conservative Europe Group ; Ambassador: National Aids trust and Alzheimer ’ s Society.

* Global Integrity Report: Chile has reporting on anti-corruption in Chile

Leading up to the Conference of the Parties ( COP 11 ) meeting on biodiversity in Hyderabad, India 2012, preparations for a World Wide Views on Biodiversity has begun, involving old and new partners and building on the experiences from the World Wide Views on Global Warming.

The only proposed modern standard, GKOS ( or Global Keyboard Open Standard ) can support most characters and functions found on a computer keyboard but has had little commercial development.

The game has been expanded into a series since its original release, which currently includes Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Source, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

The Global War on Terror ( GWOT ) has shown the flexibility and responsiveness of the carrier on multiple occasions when land based air was not feasible or able to respond in a timely fashion.

FAO has carried out projects in over 25 countries and inter-agency missions in nearly 60, scaled up its monitoring through the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, provided policy advice to governments while supporting their efforts to increase food production, and advocated for more investment in agriculture.

One key element is the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme, which has advanced to a stage where large tracts of Asia and Africa have now been free of the cattle disease rinderpest for an extended period of time.

He has also co-authored Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1, 500 Years ( 2007 ) with Dennis Avery, and Climate Change Reconsidered ( 2009 ) with Craig Idso.

GPS modernization has now become an ongoing initiative to upgrade the Global Positioning System with new capabilities to meet growing military, civil, and commercial needs.

But due to the recent changes in the atmosphere due to pollution and Global warming, Mothra's egg has been uncovered, and the Cosmos fear that Battra has awoken as well.

Gravitational time dilation in the Earth's gravitational field has been measured numerous times using atomic clocks, while ongoing validation is provided as a side effect of the operation of the Global Positioning System ( GPS ).

This has led to a high rate of poverty in Ghana, estimated at 27 % of the population in 2011, and an increase in crime, with Ghana jumping from 42nd position in 2011 to 50th position in the 2012 Global Peace Index.

Colom stated that the situation is the combined result of a number of factors, including a severe drought and global warming, which have reduced the domestic food supply, and the Global financial crisis, which has reduced Guatemala's ability to import food.

In a December 2006 Newsweek International article, a study by Global Insight in London was reported to show " that Civil war or not, Iraq has an economy, and — mother of all surprises — it's doing remarkably well.

In recent decades, LORAN use has been in steep decline, with the satellite-based Global Positioning System ( GPS ) being the primary replacement.

Internet connectivity, very low by developed world standards, has been the focus of decentralised commune based development projects since the year 2000, while the government participates in the UN's Global Alliance for ICT and Development and the Connect Africa projects to further computer and internet availability in the country.

Recent deregulation of the mobile phone market has led to the introduction of Global System for Mobile communication ( GSM ) network providers operating on the 900 / 1800 MHz spectrum, MTN Nigeria, Airtel, Globacom and Etisalat.

The United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme has defined sustainable political development is a way that broadens the usual definition beyond states and governance.

Over the last few decades, the term ' Third World ' has been used interchangeably with the Global South and Developing Countries to describe poorer countries that have struggled to attain steady economic development.

It firmly believes this agreement " has the potential to usher in an era of responsible nuclear-energy development throughout the Middle East .” Global Security. org, " New U. S .- U. A. E.

Since 2009, non-profit organization Global Heritage Fund ( GHF ) has been working to protect and preserve Ur against problems of erosion, neglect, inappropriate restoration, and war and conflict.

Since 2008, US government has provided aid in planning, development and coordination of the Global Peace Festival of the Unification Church.

It has also been successful in helping to reduce cases by 99 % since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988, which partnered WHO with Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) and the United Nations Children ’ s Fund ( UNICEF ), as well as smaller organizations.