Business news for Mon, 17 Dec 2007 & with word launched. 11 news.

Winnipeg's Fort Garry Brewing has launched production of a new, gluten-free beer called Nubru, brewed without barley for people with celiac disease.

Calling Guinness: If this isn't a world record for the world's longest commercial, I'd like to know what is.Emirates launched a nonstop flight from Dubai to Sand#227;o Paulo in October. The first-ever direct flight between the Middle East and South America lasts 14 hours and 40 minutes, the same amount of time the airline's nonstop advertisement lasts.

SINOPEC Shanghai Petrochemical Co, a unit controlled by parent China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, said it will offer minority shareholders 3.2 state-owned A shares for every 10 they hold in a revived share reform program. The proposal is the same as the one in October last year, which had been voted down by minority shareholders. Shareholders will vote again on the offer on January 15, Sinopec Shanghai, a key ethylene maker, said in a statement filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange yesterday. China has launched a nationwide program in 2005 to convert nontradable state-owned shares to tradable chips, in line with international practice. Most state companies listed on the Chinese mainland exchanges have completed the process. Typically, listed companies have to give bonus shares to minority shareholders as compensation in such a program because disposing the nontradable shares could dilute share value. The parent, also known as Sinopec, will offer 230.4 million shares worth

BAIDU.COM has teamed up with Huawei Technologies and Intel to strengthen its servers and search technologies to expand its lead in the domestic market over rivals including Google, Nasdaq-listed Baidu said yesterday. Baidu announced it will build a joint lab with Huawei to explore "next-generation" online search and test 3G-related mobile phone services, just one month after Google launched mobile search services in China. "Baidu has to break the bottleneck of the server capacity as the demand for search surges in China," William Chang, Baidu's chief scientist, said. "Baidu has to triple its existing capacity to reach the global level of services." In the third quarter, China overtook the United States to become the world's largest search traffic, with 10 billion hits per month, Baidu said. Baidu has launched a series of new services, such as an Olympics channel, game channel, Baidu TV and online music streaming (partnered with Rock Music Group).

Alloy Media + Marketing is partnering with Blowtorch Entertainment, a recently launched media company targeting college-age consumers, to promote Blowtorch offerings, including films and "professional" user-generated content.

The condo slump has put developer Liviu Mihulet in a tight spot. His lender, Northside Community Bank, filed a lawsuit in August to foreclose on a 32-unit condominium conversion the developer launched in January in West Rogers Park. The bank asserted that the property, at 6500 N. Claremont Ave., ...

Business student Owen Ward has launched an online shopping mall that contributes a portion of every sale to environmental causes.

Just one month after Facebook launched Beacon, a controversial advertising platform -- the company has scaled back its plans and humbly apologized for stomping on its users' privacy…"

The world's first commercial merchant ship pulled by a giant high-tech kite aiding its engines to slash fuel consumption and cut greenhouse gas emissions was launched in Hamburg on Saturday.

Following in the vein of those rapid-fire, buy-it-while-it-lasts sites, Ideeli.com has launched its luxury shopping site and announced a round of Series A funding.

RALEIGH - Even as state lawmakers begin tallying up the multibillion-dollar cost of corporate incentives now in play, a six-term legislator has launched a campaign to stop cutthroat business recruiting practices among states.