Dec

28

Friday Media Digest

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  • A tempest in a Champagne flute
    Under French law, the only sparkling wine anywhere in the world that merits the name Champagne with a capital C must be made from grapes grown on officially designated plots of land in France. But as global demand for Champagne soars, pressure is mounting to expand Champagne country. Champagne-producing houses want guaranteed long-term access to more of the pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot meunier vines that are used to make the real thing. Farmers and landowners who are not on Champagne-designated land hope to join the exclusive club of insiders. To that end, a team of French government-appointed experts drew up a secret list last October designating 40 communities — communes — for possible addition to the 319 communes with the designation Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée, or AOC, a convoluted if coveted certification that authenticates the content, method and origin of production of a French agricultural item.
  • Call center jobs in India take toll on workers’ health
    Call centers and other outsourced businesses like software writing, medical transcription and back-office work employ more than 1.6 million young men and women in India, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who make much more than their contemporaries in most other professions. They are, however, facing sleep disorders, heart disease, depression and family discord, according to doctors and several industry surveys.
  • Uranium rush gets under way in Zambia
    In Southern Africa, the search focuses on the uranium-enriched crust of what geologists call the Karoo Basin. Namibia and South Africa are believed to hold 6 percent and 7 percent, respectively, of the world’s recoverable uranium resources, trailing only Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the United States, according to the World Nuclear Association, a nuclear power industry advocacy group. Up-to-date estimates of Zambia’s potential are hard to pin down. Here, long-standing uranium exploration started by Italian and Japanese investors ground to a halt in the 1980s.
  • Could You Make Money in ‘08?
    Klaus Hagedorn, senior portfolio manager from Bankhaus Metzler talks about the investment opportunities for the coming year. CNBC’s Geoff Cutmore reports.
  • Market Tactics
    An outlook on whether this years dogs will be next year’s darlings, with David Katz, Matrix Asset Advisors chief investment officer and CNBC’s Matt Nesto
  • Tan Says Living Cell Aiming For 10% of Diabetes Market
    Paul Tan, chief executive officer at Living Cell Technologies Ltd., talks with Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin from Melbourne about the company’s development of a type 1 diabetes treatment, the outlook for clinical trials and plans to market the drug. The company has developed its medicine, DiabeCell, from insulin-producing cells in pigs. As many as 24 million people worldwide suffer from type 1 diabetes, in which the body doesn’t make insulin, the hormone that converts food into energy.
  • Enderle Says Apple to ‘Push’ New Laptop Models in 2008
    Robert Enderle, president of Enderle Group, talks with Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin from San Jose, California, about the outlook for new products to be showcased at Apple Inc.’s Macworld Expo in January, and iPhone and Apple TV sales.
  • Social Networking Sites Booming
    The biggest success story for 2007 has been social networking Web sites. Is more competition on the way? Bob Ivins from comScore Europe talks to CNBC’s Loiusa Bojesen about the issue.
  • Goldman Sachs warns rivals set to take $33bn crunch hit
    Goldman said it now forecast Citigroup writedowns would rise from $11 billion to $18.7 billion, Merrill from $6 billion to $11.5 billion and JP Morgan from $1.7 billion to $3.4 billion.

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