Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has been taking a lot of flak for asking that employees stop working from home and return to the office in an effort to turn around the struggling company. However, we’re pretty certain there are plenty more ...
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Yahoo has acquired Summly, a news summarisation app company owned by a 17-year old-student from the UK. The technology summarises news stories by cutting them down into "snapshots", the idea being that mobile users can more easily "skim" ...
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Yahoo announced Monday that it is buying Summly, a London-based company that developed an app that condenses information and makes it easily and quickly readable on mobile devices. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but it ...
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A beef ready meal manufacturer is fighting to preserve the 750 jobs at its Somerset site, as sales fall in the wake of the horsemeat scandal. Oscar Mayer supplies chilled ready meals to Sainsbury, which has seen reduced sales of ...
Traditionally, all the important companies belonging to the knitting industry are present at ShanghaiTex, and this is also valid for KARL MAYER. The world market leader for warp knitting machines and warp preparation units will be ...
Tags: knitting industry, knitting, plain fabrics
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision last month to call all of the company's telecommuters back to the office posed a creative challenge for video collaboration services provider Blue Jeans Network. In response, the three-year-old startup ...
As far as KARL MAYER is concerned, Brazil belongs to the countries with high market potential and, this is the reason why this German textile machinery manufacturer is already making special preparations for its participation in the ...
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Warp-knitting machinery manufacturer Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH claims to have a global market share of some 80 percent and is continuously expanding its position. To bolster this position, the Germany-based company started an ...
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Research by Microsoft has shown 70% of office workers get 'more done' working away from the office. The research is launched today (18 March) to coincide with the start of Anywhere Working Week and is an Ipsos MORI study of UK office ...
Jen Marissa Mayer was in the news again, and this time it wasn't for giving out free iPhones to employees. The flash point for the Mayer-related chatter this week was the recent announcement that Yahoo! employees would soon be expected ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer shouldn't judge staff performance on how many hours workers log on the VPN from home, but on the results they bring to the company. That's according to David Plumb, general manager, enterprise, at Telefonica O2 UK. ...
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Marissa Mayer has been challenged on her hiring practices in internal meetings, with Yahoo employees accusing her of missing out on top engineering talent, an unnamed employee has alleged. Speaking to Reuters, the employee said that Mayer ...
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From 8-13 January, this season's Biathlon World Cup was contested in the Chiemgau Arena in Ruhpolding, Germany. During the five days of competition, some 70,000 spectators visited the village in Upper Bavaria to watch the world's elite ...
Despite Yahoo's efforts to quell some of the furor, the news that it was calling telecommuters back into the office stirred up a heated debate in the tech sector and beyond. Last month, Yahoo management told employees that the company ...
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Specialty metal and chemical product producer 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada has decided to close its indium antimonide (InSb) manufacturing operations in Trail, British Columbia over the next few months, laying off the 75 staff ...
Tags: 5N Plus, metal and chemical product, InSb manufacturing operations