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Working under the One Ford strategy, the slowdown has certainly been a very good lesson for Ford as the company is now relying mostly on the best cost countries to make sure that it is able to stay afloat in the global marketplace.

In fact, the auto major has recently said that it will invest a whopping amount of $450 million in Thailand, with a view to build a new manufacturing plant, with the bulk of the output destined for export markets.

The company also mentioned that the plant will be used to cater to the expansion made in the APAC region in the past few years.

The landline telephone services providers will be offering a price cut in case of the major connections, following the pressure mounted by the telecommunications regulator, Ofcom.

It is stated that the prices will drop from £33 to just £2 in cases. It follows from the price cut that is termed as the "early termination" which is charged by up to 85 percent.

According to an Ofcom statement, "We very much welcome the reductions made by BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media, which means that consumers will face much lower charges if they wish to end their contracts early."

With an aim to cut on the large debt pile of the company, the country’s largest home-grown automaker, Tata motors is believed to be looking for funding in order to cut its debt on the balance sheet.

Be it the way of raising equity or via the foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs), but the company is surely eying to make its debt equity ratio in a better position.

While the company has not yet confirmed the use of the end money, it recently said that its board will meet on Monday to consider raising long-term funds.

According to the experts, approximately out of 1 million buy-to-let investors and 250,000 second home owners shall be coming under the queue for CGT at the higher rate of 28 per cent, making them liable to pay the same even if they come under the basic rate taxpayer’s slab.

In the announcement made by George Osborne, the CGT shall ground at 18 per cent for the one, falling under the slab of basic rate taxpayers and inclining to 28 per cent for the higher-rate taxpayers. Further, he announced that the tax-free porch shall remain at £10,100 after the substantial pressure from the Conservative backbenchers.

Google has come up with the latest command line tool for some of its services for its Open Source Blog.

The tool comes in the form of GoogleCL which essentially is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services.

It helps in syncing tasks that pertain to posting blogs on a Blogger's blog, adding events to Calendar, or editing documents on Google Docs.  

As the industry experts claim, it is more of a pure Python application that uses the Python data libraries to make Google Data API calls from the command line.

The example portrayed in the form of the Google service appears to be like this...

For the world's largest inter-dealer broker ICAP, which is known as the trading floor, the business being carried out is pervasive.

During the budget, only one point was brought into focus, on which the din had temporarily tumbled and arrived when the inclination in VAT to 20pc was announced.

While the City took the measure in its pace, the 2.5 percentage point VAT inclined by 20pc has abandoned the retail industry, leaving it unimpressed.