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In this week’s business news: Google seeks to seduce Czech searchers; Czech company seeks expansion in tractor’s home town; central bank sees rising number of problem loans; institutions put spotlight on financial illiteracy; and Prague scores well as business location.

In the week’s Business News: the only way is up for interest rates; ministry retreats from promise to ease burden of health and insurance payments; revolutionary media concept comes a cropper; coal and coke giant turns around fortunes; and hole in finances threatens tunnel builder.

In Business News this week: end of the road for many Czech truckers; Tatra pins hopes on facelifts; Prague pushes for changes in EU deficit rules; Finance Ministry retreats from tax perk attack; and a Czech cheese provokes French farmers.

In this week’s Business News: rating agency boosts credit risk outlook; top end tourism outperforms in second quarter; lower grain harvest predicted; ČEZ faces Slovak nuclear headache; and North Korea offers innovative cure for debt problem.

In Business News this week: The Czech National Bank raises its estimate of Czech economic growth in 2010, the central bank leaves interest rates unchanged and amidst planned lay-offs in the public sector, Škoda Auto makes the single biggest recruitment of employees since the beginning of the crisis.

In this week’s Business News: a big win for Budweiser - the Czech one, that is; the new labour minister wants to toughen up on non-EU workers; the state forestry company sees big profits for the first half of 2010; ČEZ finally wants done with its Chvaletice power plant; and the antimonopoly office owes interest to Shell for imposing illegitimate fines.

In this week’s Business News: Škoda Auto sets first half sales record; foreign investment flows pick up; defence minister declares war on tender corruption; construction giant to challenge suspicious contract decisions; and on course for a golf empire.

In Business News this week: privatisation possibilities earmarked by finance minister; shake-up in Prague’s power sector; skimming surges; film incentives start to roll; and municipal football joins the big league.

In this week’s business news: consumer confidence climbs; gloomy figures for film industry; financial arbitrator’s workload rises; survey suggests women’s opportunities not so bad; and football’s World Cup brings mixed results.

In Business News this week: first half budget figures offer some relief, gas sector competition steps up, lower sales but higher profits for state brewer, milk automats go mobile, and motorcycle taxi service stalled at start.