According to a recent international study conducted by Capgemini Consulting, the financial crisis leads the list of most influencing factors for the supply chain agenda in 2009.

Almost two-thirds (65%) of the surveyed managers engaged in logistics affairs said that their strategy is affected by the crisis, and just over one-third (34%) said that ‘sustainability' is a topic on their agenda.

Yahoo Inc.'s secret weapon in its effort to squeeze a higher offer out of Microsoft Corp. resides overseas in Asia's surging Internet market. Yahoo has investments worth $13.8 billion in Alibaba.com Corp., parent of China's largest online trading site, and Yahoo Japan Corp. That accounts for almost one-third of the $31 a share Microsoft is offering. In a year, the value of those stakes may balloon 15 percent to $15.9 billion, according to analysts' average share-price estimates for the Asian...

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Davos, Switzerland - The spectacular rise of China and India coupled with a decline in US influence has prompted heated debate in Davos this year over possible scenarios for a new world order.

While the United States remains the undisputed military superpower, experts participating in the annual gathering of the world's political and business elite have highlighted its waning ability to set the global agenda on its own.

And with the UN Security Council struggling to provide a consensus on just about any major issue, the question of what nation, group of nations or international institution could command a leading role on the future world stage was floated to a widely varying response.

Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday it agreed to acquire Exstream Software LLC, a provider of enterprise software designed to streamline creation and delivery of personalized documents and other communications materials.

Palo Alto-based HP (NYSE:HPQ) did not disclose financial details of the deal.

OTTAWA - Canadian forces in southern Afghanistan have arrested several bomb makers and militants in a series of raids over the last month, a senior military officer said Thursday.

But despite these successes, he said the Taliban remained a substantial threat in southern Afghanistan and predicted some "tough slogging" before this year's fighting season ended with the arrival of winter weather.

VERACRUZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean raced through Mexico's southern Gulf on Wednesday, whipping up wild winds and roaring seas around oil platforms that produce crude for export to the United States.

Dean hammered Mexico's Caribbean resort of Tulum and swallowed sand from the famous beach at Cancun before crossing the Yucatan Peninsula out into the Gulf of Mexico where state oil company Pemex has several hundred wells and other installation.

Bush's comments here, after a briefing from federal and state authorities, were meant as a boost of confidence for a state that has dealt with twin crises this summer.

Bush joins Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday in Montebello, Quebec, in hopes of expanding cooperation among their countries, which enjoy the largest trading partnership in the world.

The two-day North American Leaders’ Summit appears to lack a signature issue, except perhaps a new U.S. push to halt Mexico’s bloody drug wars.

Instead, the broad theme is economic prosperity, built around several topics: border security, competitiveness with India and China, product safety and energy solutions.

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama are expected to portray themselves as the candidates better able than Clinton to deliver change to Washington, D.C., as the candidates showcase themes likely to define the fall campaign.

The debate, broadcast nationally as a special edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, comes as a summer of relentless campaigning in Iowa draws to a close without a clear favorite emerging in the leadoff caucus state.