"We are informing the government of France that we would continue to attack ... its citizens anywhere in the world as long as the government does not retract on its policies," Ansaru's statement said. ($1 = 0.7590 euros)Google acquired Motorola in May for $12.5 billion to bolster its patent portfolio as its Android mobile operating system competes with rivals such as Apple and Samsung. The Journal quoted the people saying that Motorola is working on two fronts: devices that will be sold by carrier partner Verizon Wireless, and on the X phone. Motorola plans to enhance the X Phone with its recent acquisition of Viewdle, an imaging and gesture-recognition software developer. The new handset is due out sometime next year, the business daily said, citing a person familiar with the plans. Motorola is also expected to work on an "X" tablet after the phone. 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"Right now many people who did take huge overweight positions are right-sizing their portfolios to get it in line with their regular weightings," he said. Still, some bullish investors see the stock's recent declines as a buying opportunity. Mulholland, the Matthew 25 portfolio manager, continues to say that shares should be priced at over $1,000 per share based on his valuation of the company at 10 times enterprise value Authentic Louis Vuitton Bags divided by earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). Apple trades at about 7 times that figure now. The company relied on Jaguar Land Rover for 90 percent of its consolidated profit in the last financial year. The slowdown in its domestic business is seen as a drag on its value. Tata Motors has a 12-month forward price to earnings ratio of 7.4, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine, against 17.2 for Maruti Suzuki and 9.2 for BMW AG (BMWG.DE). "For sure new products are the source of growth and interest in our market," Managing Director Karl Slym told Reuters. "And so product focus is and should always be a priority." The appointment this summer of Slym, a former General Motors (GM.N) executive, itself marked a shift. His two predecessors were former heads of Tata's commercial vehicle business - the unit that made the biggest advances under their tenures. MANY POTS COOKING At Tata's plant in Pimpri, 140 km (87 miles) from Mumbai, most space is taken by commercial vehicle manufacturing. Building buses and goods trucks for India's bone-jangling roads is the 67-year-old company's bread and butter. He was working for French renewable energy firm Vergnet, which had been building Louis vuitton outlet Nigeria's first wind farm. "The reason we kidnapped him is ... the law the government created which prohibits the wearing of niqab by French Muslim women. This is a denial of their religious rights," said the statement by the group, written in the local Hausa language. "And again the participation of France in supporting the military attack on Muslims in northern Mali," the message signed by the group's purported leader Abu Usamata Ansari said. In recent months France has led support for an African-led force to help defeat al Qaeda and other Islamist militants in northern Mali. Military deployment has the backing of the U.N. Security Council. Last year, France banned full face veils. Ansaru's full name is Jama'atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudan, which roughly translates as "Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa". The group, thought to be a breakaway from better known Islamist sect Boko Haram, has risen to greater prominence in recent weeks. It claimed responsibility for a dawn raid on a major police station in the Nigerian capital last month, where it said hundreds of prisoners were released. WARRING FACTIONS Pakistan's powerful army chief has made reconciling warring factions in Afghanistan Louis Vuitton a top priority, Pakistani military officials and Western diplomats told Reuters, the clearest signal yet that Islamabad means business in promoting peace with the Taliban. General Ashfaq Kayani, arguably the most powerful man in Pakistan, is backing dialogue partly due to fears that the end of the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014 could energize a resilient insurgency straddling the shared frontier, according to commanders deployed in the region. The senior Afghan government official has a similar assessment. "I think there is a sense that we are also getting, that cooperation from Pakistan now is bound to be meaningful, substantive," he said. "The reason is frankly, most in Pakistan, in our view, have reached the conclusion that time is running out. That it is Louis Vuitton Outlet Store no longer just about Afghanistan's instability and Afghanistan's insecurity but it's very much a question of security for themselves." Kawaguchi, a career diplomat, served as foreign minister from 2002-2004 under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, and she also served as environment minister in 2001 under Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. Some members of Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, which swept to victory in Japan's December 16 election, favor giving the foreign minister post to former financial services minister Toshimitsu Motegi or to former LDP secretary general Nobuteru Ishihara, the Kyodo report said. Motegi is also being considered as a candidate for economy, trade and industry minister or internal affairs and communications minister. Abe is likely to tap former defense minister Yuriko Koike as LDP policy chief, a separate Kyodo report said.Ansaru sent a message to Nigerian reporters saying it was holding 63-year-old Francis Colump, who was taken on December 19 when around 30 gunmen attacked his residence in the remote northern town of Rimi, close to the Niger border. The Nigerian police declined to comment on the claim but had already named Colump as the man abducted. Tata, the world's fourth-largest truckmaker, has spent much of the past few years devoted to its commercial portfolio. Its Ace range of trucks redefined a segment and have sold 500,000 vehicles since 2010. It hasn't launched a car that popular since the Indica: its first crack at the then-nascent car market. "The company is in a transitionary phase," said Leverton, a former R&D head at BMW with more than 30 years experience in the industry. 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