The government has named the first public services to go digital, following the publication of 18 individual departmental digital strategies outlining moves to digital by default public services. The strategies detail how departments will ...
Tags: public services, digital, Apprenticeship Service, Environment
BlueCielo ECM Solutions,a leading global software company offering Engineering Content Management(ECM)solutions,announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation has awarded the company with an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite ...
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The dead can't speak for themselves. But they can apparently file U.S. tax returns. A new audit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has found the agency paid refunds to criminals who filed false tax returns, in some cases on behalf of ...
Tags: IRS, U.S.tax returns, TIGTA, ID theft
Approximately 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers belonging to South Carolina taxpayers were exposed after a server at the state’s Department of Revenue was breached by an international ...
Tags: credit cards, Data leak, protection, security breach, Social securtiy
Jeremy Hunt's promise in 2010 that the UK would lead Europe with its broadband infrastructure within five years raised a few eyebrows. No one was against the sentiment of rolling out broadband to every home in the UK by 2015 – even ...
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WA's mining industry has called for full review of resource development in the Kimberley after Premier Colin Barnett appeared to rule out the development of a massive bauxite resource in the region owned by Rio Tinto and Alcoa. Mr Simon ...
Tags: AMEC Australia, WA's mining industry, Premier Colin Barnett, Metallurgy
Key HMRC IT implementations have been delayed because of the Cabinet Office’s moratorium on spending, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. The report called for a better understanding of the costs of benefits of the ...
Tags: HMRC, IT implementations, NAO
General Motors has announced a plan to buy back 200 million shares of its stock currently held by the US government,purchased as part of a US$49.5 billion government bailout undertaken in the wake of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. ...
Tags: GM, buy back US government bailout stock, Dan Akerson, stock buyback
Warren Buffett's floated firm Berkshire Hathaway, the US underwriter has made an offer to acquire Residential Capital’s RESC.UL mortgage unit. Berkshire Hathaway is vying with Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, owned by Fortress ...
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has reproved the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) for recklessly issuing mortgage insurance to thousands of ineligible borrowers. ...
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American International Group (AIG) said that the US Department of the Treasury has set an offer price of 30.50 per share for its 163,934,426 shares. The recent move to offload the AIG's share is a step ahead to free the money, it invested ...
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York Fed) has completed the sale of the remaining securities in the Maiden Lane III (ML III) portfolio. The apex banking regulator said that it garnered a net gain for the benefit of the public of ...
Tags: New York Fed, remaining securities, Maiden Lane III, finance
Following an Air Force Times report that a U.S. servicemember was unable to obtain American-made boots after having been twice issued Chinese-made ones, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) urged the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to step up ...
ViaCyte has received a $10.1m strategic partnership award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to develop VC-01, which is a regenerative medicine, consisting of pancreatic beta cell progenitors in a durable ...
Tags: ViaCyte, Diabetes Therapy Development, CIRM
iPad is used to control streetlights in London borough. After a successful pilot scheme, the London borough has created a 'Smart Lights system' deploying Philips CosmoPolis Outdoor Lighting products in conjunction with a Harvard LeafNut CMS ...
Tags: iPad, Streetlight, light