American technology giants including Google, Yahoo and Amazon have been criticised by privacy groups and European regulators for lobbying in Washington against new EU data privacy laws. The American firms are campaigning for more relaxed ...
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American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) has revealed a plan to invest about $100m in its Three Rivers manufacturing facility located in Michigan, US. The investment is scheduled to be completed by December 2013, which will add new production ...
LAS VEGAS - Kas Rugs is in a new showroom here that it says allows it to show a larger assortment of its growing product line. The company previously showed in World Market Center B-570 and is now in the lobby area of the same building in ...
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Some of the most interesting designs are not necessarily those that go in a completely different direction than the classical ones. A design that simply replaced some of the details but preserves most of the major elements can be just as ...
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AT THE MARKET — Las Vegas Market officials expect this week's event will be buzzing on social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. The market's First Look brand is back with its Ready Your Repin rally for ...
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The furniture industry is ready to put out fires if Government proposals to cut unnecessary red tape spread to Britain's stringent flammability regulations. The British Furniture Confederation (BFC), the lobby group that represents the ...
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In addition to the many committee and division meetings that have taken place all week as part of the Glass Association of North America's Annual Conference, attendees had the chance yesterday to learn about some of the world's newest ...
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Work on the Welsh government's Superfast Cymru programme is under way, the Welsh business minister Edwina Hart has announced. The project looks to deliver high-speed and "world class" broadband access to 96 per cent of Welsh homes and ...
Ontario’s recent change to make Workplace Safety and Insurance Board coverage mandatory in the construction industry is an important component in combating the pervasive underground economy, says the Ontario Construction Secretariat. ...
USA - As an integral part of the distributed audio system UH's Translational Health Science Simulation Centre (THSSC), Tannoy loudspeakers are aiding instructors in providing students with real-life simulations of scenarios they are certain ...
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BT is wrong to claim that the UK does not have the demand to justify rolling out a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) product nationally, according to the director general of the non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. The ...
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2013 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban ...
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Of the world’s three largest toy companies, only two have women on their Board of Directors and one has none. In the US, Hasbro has Lisa Gersh and Tracy Leinbach while Mattel has Frances Ferguson, Andrea Rich and Kathy White Lloyd, ...
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Westfield's shiny new Sky Lobby in the 25-storey commercial tower on Castlereagh Street Lobby is the final part of Westfield's $1.2 billion redevelopment in the CBD, a development that has created a world-class retail environment and which ...
The lobby at last January's North American International Auto Show featured a Craftsman CTX lawn tractor touting an 8-mile-per-hour ground speed, a race car compared to the usual tractor, plus a feature more common to automobiles, traction ...
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