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United States Libraries in South Africa: Topics in Focus--Currently in Congress
U.S. Embassy, Pretoria INFORMATION & LIBRARY SERVICES Home Page Online catalog Topics Topics in focus Currently in Congress Beyond Google U.S. elections 2004 Human Trafficking ... [Read More]
United States Libraries in South Africa: Topics in Focus--Currently in Congress
U.S. Embassy, Pretoria INFORMATION & LIBRARY SERVICES Home Page Online catalog Topics Topics in focus Currently in Congress Beyond Google U.S. elections 2004 Human Trafficking ... [Read More]
Article Round Up Jan-Feb, 2003
24. “At the Limits of Google” ... [Read More]
U.S. Foreign Policy: Connections and Opportunities
Tom Friedman writes in The Lexus and the Olive Tree that in 1990 there were 800 computer systems linked on the internet. Friedman wrote in a column last June that, “In the past three years, Google has gone from processing 100 million searches per day to over 200 million searches per day – only one-third come from inside the United States. The rest are in 88 different languages . . . VeriSign, which operates much of the Internet’s infrastructure, was processing 600 million domain requests per day in early 2000. It is now processing 9 billion per day.” ... [Read More]
United States Embassy Press Release
Office of the Spokesman Thank you very much, Mrs. (Buntzie) Churchill, for that kind introduction and for inviting me back to the great city of Philadelphia and your World Affairs Council. My thanks to Claudia McBride and Denise Bala for their terrific help in planning this event. Over the past 55 years, you have engaged the public on the international issues of the day. We support your efforts and thank you for being leaders in America s conversation about foreign policy. Just as we are proud of what you do, I want you to be proud today and every day of the men and women of your U.S. State Department Foreign Service, Civil Service, and Foreign Service Nationals who serve you in 164 embassies and 263 total posts around the world. Every one of them has earned your support. You are r ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: State's Taylor Says Terrorist Threat is Global, Persistent, Lethal
"Globalization" refers to the web of connections -- including commercial, communications, or cultural -- that bind our world together. Since the end of the Cold War, the spread of open societies and new technologies has greatly accelerated the pace of globalization. As Tom Friedman reminds us in "The Lexis and the Olive Tree," the Internet did not even exist as we know it before 1990. In 1990, there were 800 elemental computer systems linked on the Internet. Today, Google.com searches more than two billion websites in a matter of seconds to find information on nearly anything you can imagine. ... [Read More]
Ireland
At end-2004, 490 IDA-assisted U.S. companies were operating in Ireland, employing 89,158 workers, representing roughly 75 percent of the total number of workers employed by IDA-supported foreign firms and 5 percent of total Irish employment. In 2003, Ireland secured 64 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, and, of these, 65 percent were by U.S. firms, including: Google, Overture, Ebay, PayPal, Centorcor, and Altera. The following U.S. firms are engaged in major expansion projects: Intel, Symantec, Wyeth, MBNA, Abbott, Cenzyme, Medtronic, Xilinx, Pepsi, Guidant, Merit Medical, Cook, and Pfizer. There are 120 companies with R&D investment plans in Ireland for the 2003-2005 period, and of these, 70 percent are U.S. firms, including, notably, IBM, HP, and Bell Labs. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that U.S. companies' average return on investment (ROI) in Ireland is 24 percent. ... [Read More]
Remarks at the Cleveland Council on World Affairs
Tom Friedman writes in The Lexus and the Olive Tree that in 1990 there were 800 computer systems linked on the Internet. Friedman wrote in a column this past June that, “In the past 3 years, Google has gone from processing 100 million searches per day to over 200 million searches per day ... only one-third come from inside the United States. The rest are in 88 different languages ... VeriSign, which operates much of the Internet’s infrastructure, was processing 600 million domain requests per day in early 2000. It is now processing 9 billion per day.” ... [Read More]
Creating Good Jobs for the Americas: Business and Government Perspectives
Greene: Google "Doing Business," it has a home page of its own. ... [Read More]
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