Google threw the gauntlet down before the software industry to clean up its mistakes faster than has been done in the past. Critical vulnerabilities in software programs being actively exploited by hackers should be made public seven days ...
The Clean Clothes Campaign welcomes the European Parliament resolution of 20 May 2013 on health and safety in the Bangladesh garment industry, which sets out the Parliament’s expectations of multinational textile retailers to ...
Tags: CCC Hails European, Safety Accord
Australia-based medical devices company Uscom has entered into an agreement to acquire New Zealand-based Pulsecor by offering five million fully paid ordinary Uscom shares. Under the terms of the agreement, Uscom will acquire all Pulsecor ...
Ryan Trainer, president of the International Sleep Products Assn., urges conference attendees to contact their elected officials when asked to lobby for industry-supported recycling measures. CHANDLER, Ariz. -States around the country are ...
Tags: Mattress, Recycling Measures, ISPA
China provides many opportunities to entrepreneurs all over the globe especially with the country’s revolutionary industries, budget friendly labor force, and its consistent policy environment. As of today, quite a lot of people are ...
Tags: Furniture, Business Representative
Sprint Nextel said it had received permission from SoftBank to negotiate a rival acquisition offer from Dish Network. The board of Sprint Nextel has the right to terminate its existing merger agreement with SoftBank, subject to certain ...
A deal between Microsoft and Janet, the UK's research and education network, will see over 18 million staff and students at learning institutions benefit from a cloud-based peering arrangement. The agreement will enable improved access ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
There has been a great deal of comment in the press about the new regulation EUTR that is designed to help stamp out the global problem of illegal logging and, especially in the tropics, deforestation. The law covers timber and timber ...
Crown Alliance Capital (CACL), a senior life settlement company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with American Medical Capital for non-exclusive sourcing of life insurance portfolios. Besides setting forth a series of ...
Tags: CACL, Life Insurance
A United Nations expert group urged global clothing brands to work with Bangladesh, international organizations and civil society to improve working conditions in the country’s garment sector, following the collapse last month of a ...
Tags: UN Exhorts, Bangla Disasters
Kinder Morgan is no longer planning to build a coal export at the Port of St. Helens in Oregon, but is still considering exporting coal out of the Pacific Northwest, a spokesman said Wednesday. "It's not about coal, it's about siting," ...
Tags: Coal Export, Coal
Centric Software, Inc. has earned a spot as a finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Awards. The Top 100 is a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures. It represents “the ...
Tags: Red Herring, Centric Software, Textile
It’s a Big Data world as information about material movement becomes more essential to the art of materials handling. And, software applications designed to grant visibility into products, processes and pieces of equipment have grown ...
Tags: Chain Software, Software
Bebe stores, inc. announced that it has promoted Liyuan Woo to the position of Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Ms. Woo, who currently serves as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer and Vice President-Corporate ...
Tags: Bebe stores, Apparel
Saint-Georges, Quebec-based fabricator Canam Group Inc. announced Monday that its subsidiary, Canam Steel Corporation, has signed an agreement to acquire the steel joist fabrication assets of Quincy Joist Company, a subsidiary of Schuff ...
Tags: Canam Group, Mineral