Protective Life Insurance has signed an agreement with subsidiaries of AXA SA to acquire MONY Life Insurance and reinsure certain policies of MONY Life Insurance Company of America. Total consideration for the deal is estimated to be ...
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American Modern Insurance Group has signed a multi-year agreement with Symbility Solutions to implement Claims Connect into its operations. Under the terms of the agreement, American Modern Insurance will deploy the property and casualty ...
Fortegra Financial has introduced a new consumer-focused brand, Fortegra, to meet insurance and protection needs. Fortegra specialty products vice president Joe Alberti said that the company will provide simple products to address the ...
Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French ...
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with five federal agencies to reduce by 50% the number of tribal homes lacking access to safe water and basic sanitation in Indian Country by 2015. The ...
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More than six out of 10 companies allow or mandate the use of employee-owned mobile devices for work in order to increase productivity, according to a survey released Tuesday. While the BYOD (bring your own device) push has received a lot ...
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System administrators and IT security pros can take bit of a breather: Microsoft issued a comparatively light set of patches for this edition of its monthly release of software vulnerability fixes. "It's a boring Patch Tuesday this month, ...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Duchesnay USA's Diclegis delayed-release tablet for the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) in women who do not respond to conservative management. The FDA granted ...
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Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centers. It also comes with a number of other new features that can limit downtime. Red Hat hopes ...
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Box manufacturer eCorrugated has reported a dramatic shift in demand towards greener packaging. According to the company, the demand is primarily driven by a desire from customers to adopt greener packaging and also to reduce costs. ...
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Rural telecom and broadband providers in the U.S. face big challenges in connecting their most remote customers, as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission transitions away from old telephone subsidies, a group of providers told ...
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European benzene's premium to naphtha has topped the $450/mt mark for the first time since the start of February, as naphtha languishes at multi-month lows and benzene rises despite seemingly weak fundamentals. The benzene-naphtha spread ...
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A Washington State University research team this month will begin quantifying methane leaks on natural gas lines and use the information to estimate a national methane emissions rate for US gas-distribution systems, WSU said Wednesday. ...
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EU-listed and large private oil, gas and mining companies will be forced to reveal more about their payments to governments under new EU rules agreed informally late Tuesday by EU negotiators. Some big oil companies, including Shell, had ...
Google Fiber with gigabit speeds will be coming to homes in Austin, Texas, by mid-2014, Google announced today. And in what could become a fierce competition over connectivity, AT&T also announced today that it is prepared to build its ...
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