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IBM Has Signed an Agreement to Acquire Softlayer Technologies
Jun 4, 2013IBM has signed an agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, as it looks to accelerate the build-out of its public cloud infrastructure. The company is also forming a services division to back up the push. The financial details of the ...
Tags: IBM, SoftLayer, Public Cloud Push
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USA Business Insurance Launched an Insurance Coverage for Auto Repair
Jun 4, 2013USA Business Insurance has launched an insurance coverage for auto repair and mechanic shop owners, with an aim to offer them protection for both garage liability and garage keepers insurance, at an affordable price. Tailored to cover all ...
Tags: USA, garage keepers, Service
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Travelers Enhanced Its PEML Policy to Offer Limited Special Expenses Coverage Reimbursemet
Jun 4, 2013Travelers has enhanced its Public Entity Management Liability (PEML) policy to offer limited special expenses coverage reimbursement for finding a replacement for a key public sector employee in case of death or disability leading to ...
Tags: Travelers, Service, Public Entity
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Informatica Recently Ported VDM to The Hadoop Framework for Large-Scale Data Processing
Jun 4, 2013Informatica has given its virtual data machine technology a proper name and is planning to create versions of it that can run on anything from high-end servers in private data centers to small devices and sensors. Dubbed Vibe, the "VDM ...
Tags: Vibe, Informatica, JVM
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Cochrane Completed Acquisition of Prowest Insurance Services for an Undisclosed Amount
Jun 4, 2013Washington-based western-regional surplus lines brokerage and managing general agent (MGA), Cochrane & Company has completed acquisition of Prowest Insurance Services for an undisclosed amount. As part of the transaction, Prowest will ...
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NFC's Transaction Value Has Been Reduced by 40% Over Last Year's Gartner Forecast
Jun 4, 2013Gartner today drastically lowered its forecast for the monetary payments that near field communication technology will provide in coming years, noting the struggles of Google Wallet and Isis mobile wallet services. Through 2017, NFC's ...
Tags: NFC, Gartner, Monetary Payments
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DKSH Business Unit Healthcare Has Opened New Healthcare Distribution Center in South Korea
Jun 4, 2013DKSH Business Unit Healthcare has opened its new healthcare distribution center in Seoul, South Korea. Located close to key hospitals in Seoul, the distribution center will manage the emergency deliveries of mainly medical devices. The ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, medical devices
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The Survey Involved 2,000 Consumers in The U.S. and Parts of Europe
Jun 4, 2013Smartphone owners who also have a tablet spend three times as much on apps as those who only own smartphones, according to a survey by research and consulting firm Analysys Mason. The finding is an argument for wireless carriers and app ...
Tags: Tablet Owners, Smartphone Owners, Apps
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The EMA Committee for CHMP Has Adopted a Positive Opinion
Jun 4, 2013The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for Celgene International's oral anti-cancer therapy Pomalidomide. The positive results from the MM-003 study of ...
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Microsoft Will Ship Internet Explorer 11 with Windows 8.1 Later This Year
Jun 4, 2013Microsoft will ship Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) with Windows 8.1 later this year, but on Monday the company passed on saying whether the same browser would also be available to Windows 7 users. "We aren't sharing anything around which ...
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The FDA Has Approved Dabrafenib and Trametinib as Single-Agent
Jun 4, 2013The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GlaxoSmithKline's Tafinlar (dabrafenib) and Mekinist (trametinib) as single-agent therapies for unresectable or metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E mutation. Tafinlar is not indicated ...
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They All Came Late to The Mobile Revolution
Jun 4, 2013SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Intel have something in common: They all came late to the mobile revolution. Why? Because they're companies where management is top-down and responsibility for innovation and change is ...
Tags: Corporate Revolution, Peons, Microsoft
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More Smartphones Will Ship Worldwide in 2013
Jun 4, 2013More smartphones will ship worldwide in 2013 than other so-called mobile "feature" phones as the average price of smartphones drops, IDC said Tuesday. The average price of smartphone declined by 8% globally in 2012 and is projected to ...
Tags: Smartphone, Prices
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PoP-Market Arming Sales Reps with The Only Patented iPad APP for Fashion Wholesale
Jun 4, 2013POP-Market, which revolutionized and simplified the way the fashion wholesalers and retailers conduct business, is making wholesale even easier, arming sales reps with the only patented iPad app for fashion wholesale. Available for ...
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TFS Is Software for Managing The Collaborative Application Development Lifecycle
Jun 4, 2013The next release of the Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), an application for managing software development, has been designed to bring agile development practices to larger, multi-team projects. A preview of Team Foundation ...
Tags: Microsoft, Team Foundation Update
