The Cabinet Office has admitted that, despite its increased focus on G-Cloud and SMBs for outsourced projects, it still has "some pretty shoddy tech" - also in spite of acquiring "great people" in comparison to how it worked in the past. ...
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The EU cookie Law "is a disaster" according to HP's privacy officer EMEA, Daniel Pradelles. The law is part of the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, and means that websites need to obtain users' consent before ...
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Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN), aluminum nitride (AlN) and aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) materials and related products and services, has announced the commercial availability ...
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OPEC's collective oil export earnings rose 8.5% to $1.24 trillion in 2012 from $1.14 trillion in 2011, the oil producer group said Friday in its latest annual report. It stressed that the 2012 figure was a preliminary estimate. The group ...
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Intel invested about $10.5bn in Israel during the past decade. Intel has begun negotiations with the Israeli government regarding its plans to invest $10bn in the country. The US chipmaker will invest about $3bn to revamp the existing ...
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, raised ex-factory toluene prices at its South China subsidiaries by 1.3% or Yuan 100/mt Friday, a company source said. Sinopec Guangzhou will now offer toluene at Yuan 8,050/mt, or ...
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Producers in Alberta's liquids-rich shale play at Duvernay are likely to invest some C$1 billion ($955 million) in drilling activities over the remaining six months of 2013, with that figure likely to rise further next year, oil and gas ...
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek, made net investments of S$4 billion ($3.16 billion) in its energy and resources portfolio in the year to March 31, the fund said Thursday. The new investments included acquiring an additional 5% ...
China's state-owned offshore monopoly producer China National Offshore Oil Corp says it supports the Chinese government's position over Japan's recent protests about Chinese drilling activity in the East China Sea. "We do not understand ...
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LED packaging house Everlight Electronics, recorded June consolidated revenues of NT$1.892 billion (US$62.7 million) down 11.82% on month, while fellow packaging houses Unity Opto Technology had revenues of NT$604 million, down 14.47%, and ...
O2 has outsourced four northern UK regions of its customer contact centres to Capita, in a deal worth £1.2bn. Included regions are Leeds, Glasgow, Preston Brook and Bury. Further reading Transport for London installs O2 and ...
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Yahoo will acquire Qwiki, a start-up behind a mobile app for creating videos on Apple's iPhone, as it continues to ramp up its mobile offerings. Yahoo paid about $50m (£33m) for the company, according to sources close to the matter, ...
In US housing construction the building starts in the twelve months up to and including May increased by 6.8% by comparison with the twelve month period up to and including April to 914,000. Building starts of multiple dwelling buildings, ...
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Minnetonka, Minn.-based NatureWorks LLC — developer of Ingeo? lactides and biopolymers derived from 100-percent annually renewable resources including agricultural feedstocks — and Menlo Park, Calif.-based Calysta Energy Inc. ...
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On Monday 1 July textile technology company Royal Ten Cate introduced the first production machine for digital finishing on the basis of inkjet technology. Theo Rietkerk, member of the Provincial Executive of Overijssel for Economy, Energy ...
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