Smartphone mit zwei Simkarten

"Du bist doch öfters in London - dann ist das genau das Richtige für Dich": Mit diesen Worten drückte mir mein Kollege das DSTW1 von General Mobile in die Hand. Das Smartphone mit zwei Sim-Karten stellte ich in der britischen Metropole auf die Probe.

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Die wichtigsten Statements aus Politik und Wirtschaft, unter anderem: Was der neue US-Präsident zu seinem Amtsantritt zu sagen hatte. Außerdem was Kanzlerin Merkel sich erhofft und wie Produzent Eichinger seine neuerliche Oscar-Nominierung bewertet.

Quirin Bank

Mit 24 piesackt er die etablierten Geldhäuser, indem er einen Discount-Broker aus der Taufe hebt. Heute - mit 39 Jahren - versucht er sich mit der Quirin-Bank. Dass er hoch hinaus will, zeigt er auch mit den FTD-Bausteinen.

Die Finanzkrise hat jetzt auch Deutschland mit voller Wucht getroffen: Nur durch einen neuen Rettungsplan mit einer Milliarden-Buergschaft des Staates konnte am Wochenende verhindert werden, dass der Immobilienfinanzierer Hypo Real Estate in die Knie geht. Die ZDF-Reporter waren am Bankenplatz Frankfurt, bei Unternehmen in BadenWuerttemberg, an der Wall Street in New York und auf dem US-Häusermarkt im Raum Los Angeles unterwegs. [Mehr] [Weniger]

Die Finanzkrise hat jetzt auch Deutschland mit voller Wucht getroffen: Nur durch einen neuen Rettungsplan mit einer Milliarden-Buergschaft des Staates konnte am Wochenende verhindert werden, dass der Immobilienfinanzierer Hypo Real Estate in die Knie geht. Die ZDF-Reporter waren am Bankenplatz Frankfurt, bei Unternehmen in BadenWuerttemberg, an der Wall Street in New York und auf dem US-Häusermarkt im Raum Los Angeles unterwegs. [Mehr] [Weniger]

Oct 21 - The tech heavy Nasdaq fell 4.1 percent ahead of key results from Apple and Yahoo.The Dow dropped 231 points to 9,033. The S&P 500 lost 30 points to 955. The Nasdaq posted a 73 point decline to 1,696. Crude oil fell to $70.89 a barrel. Conway Gittens reports.

Beschreibung:  Mobil und doch wie zu Hause: Die Deutschen lieben es, mit einem Wohnwagen zu reisen. Erwin Hymer baut solche Wohnmobile. 1956 entstand in der familieneigenen Werkstatt der erste Campinganhänger.

Inzwischen ist sein Unternehmen an der Börse und Marktführer in Europa. 2005 hat Hymer fast 25.000 Reisemobile und Caravans verkauft und damit 750 Millionen Euro umgesetzt. Die Firma ist während des Wirtschaftswunders groß geworden, als sich auch der Durchschnittsdeutsche dank eines Campinganhängers von Hymer seinen Traum von Urlaub erfüllen konnte. Heute jedoch bedeutet Hymer keineswegs mehr billig: Das einfachste Wohnmobil gibt es nicht unter 50.000 Euro.
Der inzwischen 75jährige Erwin Hymer ist ein typisch schwäbischer Unternehmer: Heimatverbunden, bodenständig und erfinderisch, wenn es um seine Produkte geht. Die Zulieferer jedoch fürchten seine Härte bei Preisverhandlungen und auch die Gewerkschaft musste öfters schon einlenken, wenn es um die Arbeitszeit der 2000 Beschäftigten geht. Kerstin Schweizer hat dem Wohnmobilkönig einen Besuch abgestattet. [Mehr] [Weniger]

So genannte Bewertungsportale für Ärzte schießen wie Pilze aus dem Boden. Doch nicht bei Jedem sind sie beliebt.

Unscheinbare Produkte, enorme Renditen. Mit dieser schlichten Formel bezaubert die K+S-Gruppe schon länger die Börsen. Der Kassler Konzern nutzte den allgemeinen Rohstoffboom geschickt. So kaufte das Unternehmen im Juni 2006 den zweitgrößten südamerikanischen Salzproduzenten Sociedad Punta de Lobos (SPL) und stieg damit zum "Global Player" auf. In einem gigantischen Tagebaubetrieb in der Atacama-Wüste, 600 Kilometer nördlich der chilenischen Hauptstadt, gewinnt die neue Tochter sehr kostengünstig Steinsalz. Im firmeneigenen Seehafen nahe der Stadt Iquiquie wird das Salz verschifft. Durch den Kauf von SPL ist der Umsatz von K+S im Salzgeschäft auf einen Schlag um mehr als 50% gewachsen. Damit stieg das Kasseler Unternehmen - dass seine Salzaktivitäten bisher auf Europa konzentriert hatte - zum echten "Global Player" auf. Als neue Absatzgebiete will K+S vor allem Südamerika und Südostasien entwickeln. Gemeinsam mit Karl-Georg Mielke, dem Projektleiter für K+S in Chile, verfolgen die MiG Reporter Patrick Benning und Alexa Meyer die Gewinnung des "weißen Goldes" - mitten im Nirgendwo. [Mehr] [Weniger]

Eisbär Flocke steht zum ersten Mal auf allen vier Pfoten. Mit über 3800g und scharfen Krallen ist die Kleine ein richtiger "Racker". Bei Veröffentlichung Quelle angeben: "Copyright: Tiergarten Nürnberg / Stadt Nürnberg"

A lone trader at Societe Generale bank in France racked up $7.14 billion in fraud-related losses. Officials say the 30-something trader may have been suffering from family problems. (Jan. 24)

Berlin senkt Wachstumsprognose. Kurznachrichten. Börse. Termine des Tages.

Seit mehr als einem Jahr brodelt der Schmiergeldskandal bei Siemens. Die Bemühungen, den Sumpf trockenzulegen, aufzudecken, bringen immer wieder neue Zahlen ans Licht. 1,2 Milliarden Euro an dubiosen Zahlungen sollen als Schmiergeld eingesetzt worden sein, vorwiegend im Ausland. Peter Löscher, seit sechs Monaten Vorstandsvorsitzender bei Siemens, treibt die Aufklärung der Schmiergeldaffäre voran. In den vergangenen Wochen haben zahlreiche Siemens-Mitarbeiter ausgesagt und dabei einzelne Manager direkt beschuldigt. Dabei gibt es offenbar Hinweise, die auch noch im vergangenen Jahr aktive Vorstände betreffen, unter anderem Klaus Kleinfeld und Heinrich von Pierer. Nun will die Konzernspitze die auf dem Aktionärstreffen zunächst vorgesehene Entlastung des Vorstandes wegen der Vorwürfe vertagen. Auch der Umbau des Konzerns und die Verkleinerung des Vorstands soll zur Aufklärung beitragen. Doch reicht das und wie geht es weiter bei Siemens? Wo steht der Technologieriese, was macht die Affäre mit seinem Image und wie versucht Löscher, das Ruder herumzureißen? Joachim Eggers berichtet.

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Jerome Kerviel of bank Societe Generale may have been involved with the largest trading fraud conducted by a single person. His unauthorized bets on stock markets resulted in losses of $7.2 billion.

A "lone trader" was responsible for French bank Societe Generales 4.9 billion euro loss, the company's chairman Daniel Bouton said. The bank has also lost two billion euros in the US subprime crisis.

The trader behind an alleged 4.9 billion euro fraud at Societe Generale is a man in his thirties earning less than 100,000 euros ($146,500) a year, the French bank said on Thursday. Societe Generale has declined to name the trader for legal reasons. "He's in his thirties and has been working for Societe Generale since 2002," Chairman Daniel Bouton told reporters at a news conference. "His salary was slightly below 100,000 euros a year," said Bouton who earlier said he and his deputy Philippe Citerne would give up their own salaries until June. Bouton gave no further details on the trader and said he did not know where the man was. He said the bank was starting legal action against him. Asked whether the trader had sought personal gain from his fraud, Jean-Pierre Mustier, head of Societe Generale's investment banking arm, said: "I don't think so." Then asked whether the trader was acting alone, Mustier said: "I am convinced he was acting alone." [Mehr] [Weniger]

A lone trader at Societe Generale bank in France racked up $7.14 billion in fraud-related losses. Officials say the 30-something trader may have been suffering from family problems. (Jan. 24)

Berlin senkt Wachstumsprognose. Kurznachrichten. Börse. Termine des Tages.

Unscheinbare Produkte, enorme Renditen. Mit dieser schlichten Formel bezaubert die K+S-Gruppe schon länger die Börsen. Der Kassler Konzern nutzte den allgemeinen Rohstoffboom geschickt. So kaufte das Unternehmen im Juni 2006 den zweitgrößten südamerikanischen Salzproduzenten Sociedad Punta de Lobos (SPL) und stieg damit zum "Global Player" auf. In einem gigantischen Tagebaubetrieb in der Atacama-Wüste, 600 Kilometer nördlich der chilenischen Hauptstadt, gewinnt die neue Tochter sehr kostengünstig Steinsalz. Im firmeneigenen Seehafen nahe der Stadt Iquiquie wird das Salz verschifft. Durch den Kauf von SPL ist der Umsatz von K+S im Salzgeschäft auf einen Schlag um mehr als 50% gewachsen. Damit stieg das Kasseler Unternehmen - dass seine Salzaktivitäten bisher auf Europa konzentriert hatte - zum echten "Global Player" auf. Als neue Absatzgebiete will K+S vor allem Südamerika und Südostasien entwickeln. Gemeinsam mit Karl-Georg Mielke, dem Projektleiter für K+S in Chile, verfolgen die MiG Reporter Patrick Benning und Alexa Meyer die Gewinnung des "weißen Goldes" - mitten im Nirgendwo. [Mehr] [Weniger]

Eisbär Flocke steht zum ersten Mal auf allen vier Pfoten. Mit über 3800g und scharfen Krallen ist die Kleine ein richtiger "Racker". Bei Veröffentlichung Quelle angeben: "Copyright: Tiergarten Nürnberg / Stadt Nürnberg"

AMSTETTEN, Austria (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police said on Monday. A 42-year-old woman had told police on Sunday that her father, Josef Fritzl, lured her into the basement of the block where they lived in the town of Amstetten in 1984 and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her. "(Fritzl) has now said that he locked up his daughter for 24 years and that he alone fathered her seven children and that he locked them up in the cellar," Franz Polzer, head of the criminal investigations unit in the province of Lower Austria told Reuters by telephone. Three of Elisabeth Fritzl's children had been locked up since birth in the basement of the plain, grey building along with their mother and had never seen sunlight or received any education, police said. Austrian investigators were combing through the network of windowless, underground cells where Elisabeth and the children had been holed up. Some parts of the dungeon were no more than 1.70 meters (5 ft 6 in) high and officials in Amstetten said the basement labyrinth even contained a padded cell. Fritzl had hidden the entrance to the cell behind shelves and only he knew the secret code for the reinforced concrete door, said officials. The case unfolded when a 19-year-old girl -- the oldest of the three -- became seriously ill and was hospitalized, prompting doctors to appeal for the girl's mother to come forward to provide more details about her medical history. Fritzl then brought Elisabeth and her remaining two children out of the basement, telling his wife -- who thought their "missing" daughter had chosen to return home, police said. Elisabeth agreed to make a "comprehensive statement" detailing her ordeal to the police after receiving assurances she would have no further contact with her father, who she said abused her from the age of 11. Newspaper headlines called the case the "crime of a monster" and the "worst crime of all time". Media asked how authorities and residents of Amstetten, 130 km (80 miles) west of Vienna, could have failed to notice what was happening in the "horror house". SHAME The case was especially shocking because it was reminiscent of that of Austrian Natascha Kampusch who spent eight years locked up in a windowless cell before escaping in August 2006. "The community of Amstetten should drown in shame ... The neighbors are turning a blind eye," the Oesterreich newspaper wrote in an editorial. The daily Der Standard wrote: "The whole country must ask itself what is really, fundamentally going wrong." Police have said they believe Josef's wife Rosemarie had been unaware of what happened to her daughter when she disappeared in 1984 and it was assumed Elisabeth had left voluntarily when her parents received a letter from her saying they should not search for her. But all the while Elisabeth was being held in what Polzer described as a sophisticated network of chambers with facilities for sleeping, cooking and washing. Elisabeth gave birth to seven children, one of whom died shortly after being born, police said. Three of the children -- two girls and one boy -- were brought up by Josef and his wife after they were left on the doorstep where the couple lived. The first child was accompanied by a note from Elisabeth saying she was unable to care for the baby herself. Three others -- two boys and a girl --, including the two eldest aged 18 and 19, and the youngest, aged 5, had been locked up in the basement with their mother since birth. Video News Reuters

Bericht von Reuters über den Inzestfall in Österreich Amstetten

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Wie Anleger sich jetzt verhalten sollten. Ein Interview mit dem Seite-1-Chef der FTD.

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Italiens Polizei hebt Ferrari-Fälscherbande aus.

AMSTETTEN, Austria (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police said on Monday. A 42-year-old woman had told police on Sunday that her father, Josef Fritzl, lured her into the basement of the block where they lived in the town of Amstetten in 1984 and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her. "(Fritzl) has now said that he locked up his daughter for 24 years and that he alone fathered her seven children and that he locked them up in the cellar," Franz Polzer, head of the criminal investigations unit in the province of Lower Austria told Reuters by telephone. Three of Elisabeth Fritzl's children had been locked up since birth in the basement of the plain, grey building along with their mother and had never seen sunlight or received any education, police said. Austrian investigators were combing through the network of windowless, underground cells where Elisabeth and the children had been holed up. Some parts of the dungeon were no more than 1.70 meters (5 ft 6 in) high and officials in Amstetten said the basement labyrinth even contained a padded cell. Fritzl had hidden the entrance to the cell behind shelves and only he knew the secret code for the reinforced concrete door, said officials. The case unfolded when a 19-year-old girl -- the oldest of the three -- became seriously ill and was hospitalized, prompting doctors to appeal for the girl's mother to come forward to provide more details about her medical history. Fritzl then brought Elisabeth and her remaining two children out of the basement, telling his wife -- who thought their "missing" daughter had chosen to return home, police said. Elisabeth agreed to make a "comprehensive statement" detailing her ordeal to the police after receiving assurances she would have no further contact with her father, who she said abused her from the age of 11. Newspaper headlines called the case the "crime of a monster" and the "worst crime of all time". Media asked how authorities and residents of Amstetten, 130 km (80 miles) west of Vienna, could have failed to notice what was happening in the "horror house". SHAME The case was especially shocking because it was reminiscent of that of Austrian Natascha Kampusch who spent eight years locked up in a windowless cell before escaping in August 2006. "The community of Amstetten should drown in shame ... The neighbors are turning a blind eye," the Oesterreich newspaper wrote in an editorial. The daily Der Standard wrote: "The whole country must ask itself what is really, fundamentally going wrong." Police have said they believe Josef's wife Rosemarie had been unaware of what happened to her daughter when she disappeared in 1984 and it was assumed Elisabeth had left voluntarily when her parents received a letter from her saying they should not search for her. But all the while Elisabeth was being held in what Polzer described as a sophisticated network of chambers with facilities for sleeping, cooking and washing. Elisabeth gave birth to seven children, one of whom died shortly after being born, police said. Three of the children -- two girls and one boy -- were brought up by Josef and his wife after they were left on the doorstep where the couple lived. The first child was accompanied by a note from Elisabeth saying she was unable to care for the baby herself. Three others -- two boys and a girl --, including the two eldest aged 18 and 19, and the youngest, aged 5, had been locked up in the basement with their mother since birth. Video News Reuters

Bericht von Reuters über den Inzestfall in Österreich Amstetten

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A lone trader at Societe Generale bank in France racked up $7.14 billion in fraud-related losses. Officials say the 30-something trader may have been suffering from family problems. (Jan. 24)

Jerome Kerviel of bank Societe Generale may have been involved with the largest trading fraud conducted by a single person. His unauthorized bets on stock markets resulted in losses of $7.2 billion.