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Scientist recognised for “A to B” ranking

This content was published on Aug 25, 2010 Jochen Mundinger, working at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), was recognised for developing a search engine that finds the fastest, cheapest, or most ecological way to get from A to B. Mundinger’s website, routeRANK.com, not only finds flights between cities, but also trains, public transport and driving routes and allows the potential…

Research looks to generations to end labour gap

This content was published on Aug 25, 2010 “Towards an inter-generational policy” gathers together proposals for redressing the balance between greying employees and those just starting out. Published by the Swiss Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences, the study has been submitted to the speaker of the House of Representatives, Pascale Bruderer-Wyss, for review. “Never before in the history of mankind has there…

Regulator slaps hefty fine on Zurich Financial

This content was published on Aug 24, 2010 The supervisory body said on Tuesday this was the highest fine to date imposed on a single firm for data security failings. It added that Zurich UK, a subsidiary of ZFS, had lost a tape in South Africa containing details of 46,000 insurance customers. It was not aware of the loss until a year later,…

Another tax CD causes controversy in Germany

This content was published on Aug 24, 2010 A CD containing information about Swiss accounts was offered to the state earlier this year and later acquired by the German government. The new CD is said to include the names of 250 companies which allegedly deposited hundreds of millions of euros in Swiss bank accounts to avoid paying taxes to the German taxman. For…

Basel plans major aquarium

This content was published on Aug 24, 2010 Basel Zoo – known affectionately to locals as the “Zolli” – is looking to expand further into the city, by building what it calls an Ozeanium in an area of town which is ripe for renovation. While such centres can be found in a number of countries, they are generally on the coast. There is…

Roche to buy high-tech imaging company

This content was published on Aug 23, 2010 The deal, worth $100 million (SFr105 million), is being carried out by a Roche subsidiary in the United States, Ventana Medical Systems Inc. Roche said in a statement that BioImagene, “is an innovative leader in the field of digital pathology workflow and analysis”. This technology enables the capturing of images, analysis of these images and…

“A third of Swiss hotels must close”

This content was published on Aug 22, 2010 swissinfo.ch looks at the health of the sector and the various challenges facing managers at both ends of the star spectrum. “Building a hotel where people can sleep, eat and drink is not good enough anymore,” Guglielmo Brentel, president of the Swiss Hotel Association (hotelleriesuisse), told swissinfo.ch. “There are other reasons why people travel and…

UBS launches PR offensive

This content was published on Aug 22, 2010 It follows a tumultuous two years, with the bank posting billions of francs in losses in 2008 and becoming embroiled in a tax evasion scandal. UBS chief executive Oswald Grübel said last month the bank had turned a corner, reporting its third successive quarter of profits. The new publicity campaign aims to build up the…

Central bank defends euro intervention

This content was published on Aug 21, 2010 Philipp Hildebrand told the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper that if the central bank had not purchased significant amounts of euros in April and May, Switzerland would have run the risk of deflation and unemployment soaring by up to eight per cent. Both outcomes would not have conformed with the law, he said, and so the central bank…

Name of racist scientist remains on top

This content was published on Aug 20, 2010 The three communities bordering the mountain on Thursday rejected a petition signed by people from around the world calling for the name of Louis Agassiz, a key promoter of the Ice Age theory, to be removed from the mountain. When Agassiz moved to the United States in 1846, he became a leading researcher and one…

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