Business news for Sun, 23 Mar 2008. 470 news.

E-mail overload is a fact of life but there are already existing solutions. What's missing is real commitment from the likes of Microsoft and IBM, et al.

Baghdad's fortified "Green Zone" came under repeated rocket or mortar attack, and police said up to 17 people had been killed by rockets falling short outside the government and diplomatic compound

The new owner of a Warehouse District landmark plans to reposition the building. One likely change is a restaurant or bar for the ground floor.

A small Edina company is finding its niche in the fledgling market for health savings accounts, betting people soon will start investing some excess funds.

After the biggest one-week fall in prices for several decades, Latin Americans this week will be watching commodity markets with particular interest

Al Copeland, who became rich selling spicy fried chicken and notorious for his flamboyant lifestyle, died Sunday at a clinic near Munich, Germany. He was 64.

Hong Kong-based Myo Capital Advisers will in April launch a fund targeting high-yield corporate bonds and distressed assets in Asia in the wake of credit turmoil in the US and Europe

The global telecommunications industry has been in flux for a number of years – a combination of technological advances and deregulation has completely transformed the industry landscape and the changes are not over yet

An Anglo-French summit on Thursday will put renewed pressure on banks to agree to "full and immediate disclosure" of the scale of their bad debts

SOYBEAN futures in China, the world's biggest buyer of the oilseed, posted the biggest weekly drop in more than three years on speculation that a global commodities sell-off will cut import costs. Soybeans in Chicago lost 11 percent last week, helping erase all of this year's gains as large investors sold commodities to cover losses in other capital markets. Imported soybeans account for 70 percent of China's supplies, according to the China National Grain and Oils Information Center. Nie Ben, manager at Liaoning Cifco Futures Co in Dalian, said: "We will see more losses by importers as prices slide further. This is extremely damaging to the industry." January-delivery soybeans lost as much as 82 yuan (US$11.55), or two percent, to 4,007 yuan a metric ton. The contract closed at 4,056 yuan a ton, down 19 percent from a peak on March 4. The 10 percent loss last week was the biggest since September 17, 2004, Bloomberg News said. Soybean oil for September delivery gained

ECONOMIC diplomacy is becoming increasingly important and China should endeavor to create more common interests in its economic diplomacy, Wu Jianmin, president of China Foreign Affairs University, said in Beijing yesterday. "China needs to find mutually beneficial areas in handling economic and diplomatic relations with foreign countries," said Wu in addressing the first China economic diplomacy forum held in the capital. Zhang Youwen, director of the Institute of World Economy under the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said that, "to create more common interests is also beneficial to China's own development and the country should join hands with foreign countries to solve global concerns including resource saving, energy and environmental protection." Zhang Yuyan, a senior expert with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the country should make good use of its vast market and other economic advantages to better serve its diplomatic goals.

Global Radio, which has proposed a ?370m offer for GCap Media, has asked for an extension for its deadline to make a formal offer for Britain's biggest commercial radio group

Utour Golf and World Golf Tour are two sites exploiting a developing demographic of casual gamers: males over 30 looking to compete with one another online

The homebuilder is going public to build credibility with clients outside the Middle East and to bolster its ability to recruit top-quality candidates

US media group says locally-produced shows will play a growing role as it steps up its European television production and distribution efforts

Telecom Italia is embarking on a forensic review of its working practices in an attempt to cut costs

Mark Mills, the entrepreneur who built Cardpoint into one of the UK's biggest automated teller machine groups, plans to float another cash machine business on Aim this year

England's leading universities are set to snub government plans for intensive business-friendly degrees lasting 48 weeks a year, a Financial Times survey suggests