Computerworld - Nokia Wednesday unveiled its largest Windows 8 smartphone today, the Lumia 625, which sports a 4.7-in. LCD screen and a price tag of under $300. The Lumia 625 Hero Windows 8 smartphone was unveiled by Nokia today. The ...
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A rebound for IBM failed to materialize in the second quarter, as profit and sales declined along with a slump in revenue from hardware and services. However, in its quarterly financial report Thursday, the company raised its forecast for ...
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A rebound for IBM failed to materialise in the second quarter, as profit and sales declined along with a slump in revenue from hardware and services. However, in its quarterly financial report Thursday, the company raised its forecast for ...
Tags: Computer Products, IBM, software
Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or "the Company") has entered into turnkey contracts to build four new ultra-deepwater drillships. Two drillships will be built at the DSME yard and the other two at the Samsung yard, in South Korea. The project ...
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Kenya s second-largest cement firm ARM Cement posted a 28 percent rise in first-half pretax profit helped by a rise in cement sales, and it forecast a strong performance for the second half of the year. The cement manufacturer, which ...
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The major indices have decreased significantly since the beginning of the reported week. The ICE recorded the adjustment of positions amongst other things. However, current quotations of available cotton reflected by the CIF Bremen Index ...
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Philips recently announced that it will build 19 "Community Light Centers" throughout Kenya by 2015. These Community Light Centers are areas of about 1000 square meters as large as a small football pitch, being lit up by using solar powered ...
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Marathon Oil's newly announced CEO will bring international experience to enhance the company's global operations, analysts said Thursday. Long-time leader Clarence Cazalot is stepping down as president and CEO on August 1, after 14 years ...
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Global PET solutions provider Sidel has announced the renewal of an agreement with long term partner Sidel Beverage Africa (SBA) in a bid to improve its support for packaging customers in Africa. The partnership will provide further ...
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The BI (business intelligence) software market cooled off a bit in 2012 after "a few historic banner years" of spending growth, due to difficult economic conditions and even more confusion over industry buzzwords such as "big data", ...
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DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective July 1, 2013, or as contracts allow as ...
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The business intelligence software market cooled off a bit in 2012 after "a few historic banner years" of spending growth, due to difficult economic conditions and even confusion over industry buzzwords such as "big data," according to a ...
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Pump Solutions Group announced that it has named Tomas Valencia Vice President, Sales & Business Development ? EMEA. Valencia will be responsible for the sales and business development activities in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) for ...
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A combination of new supply sources and rising costs at home could mean Australia's burgeoning LNG sector losing ground to new players, several speakers at an oil industry conference in Brisbane warned this week. On Sunday the chief ...
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A long-standing dispute over the problems surrounding Kenya's sole refinery in Mombasa is escalating, triggering fears the country could lose clout as an investment magnet for neighboring countries. A financial crisis at the aging plant ...
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