Despite cautionary spending last year, retailers may have good reason to be optimistic in 2013 – consumers are trying more fashion retailers for the first time, and most are making purchases during those visits. According to a study ...
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Hewlett-Packard's shareholders have voted to reelect its entire board of directors, despite opposition from investors who want some members held accountable for recent troubles at HP, including its ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy. All ...
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TouchTunes Interactive Networks, the industry leader for interactive music and entertainment in 57,000 venues nationwide, enabled crowdsourced music at the 2013 frog SXSW Interactive Opening Party. Held at the Palmer Events Center in ...
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Lovers of the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader have vented anger over the decision to pull the plug on the RSS service and are petitioning to keep it alive. A "Keep Google Reader Running" petition at change.org had racked up more than ...
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UK - Lighting and visuals rental company HSL is supplying all lighting equipment to the current series of the Googoosh Music Academy, which features a spectacular lighting design by Steffan Jones. The show, produced by Manoto TV is ...
In some funny places in the outside world, Switzerland is known as being a country full only of rich people with golden Swiss wristwatches eating Swiss (!) chocolate 24 hours a day. This by far is not true. However, in each rumor there is a ...
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This year's Pump Industry Awards has not only received a record number of nominations, but a record number of votes have also been cast to determine the 2013 winners. Taking place on Thursday 14 March 2013, at the St Johns Hotel in ...
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The chance of infection by malware from counterfeit software is three in 10 for businesses, and one in three for consumers, according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by research firm IDC. Police prevented from ...
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The contest, which is inspired by the BBC’s Dragon’s Den, pits packaging inventors against a panel of packaging experts drawn from major brands and retailers. It takes place at the Packaging Innovations show today at 2pm in the ...
Entries for the annual Toy Industry Twitterwards - recognising the best use of Twitter by toy retailers, suppliers and commentators - are now open. Organised by Toy Shop UK, the awards are designed to celebrate those businesses or ...
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European confectioner Cloetta saw its losses widen in 2012 thanks to the merger that formed the company last year but it reported improved profits in the fourth quarter. In the 12 months to the end of December, the company made a net loss ...
A number of Swedish and Nordic institutions, together with Bengt Jaller Klädcenter AB, MQ’s second-largest owner, have acquired 9,924,829 shares in MQ, corresponding to 28.2 percent of the company’s capital and votes. The ...
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A cat is set to replace the classic iron token used in Monopoly. Fans from 185 countries voted for the change on Facebook as part of the Monopoly "Save Your Token" campaign, which featured on the cover of ToyNews' February issue. The ...
On Monday, the US International Trade Commission (USITC) voted to conduct full five-year reviews concerning the countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled steel products from India, Indonesia, and Thailand and the antidumping duty orders on ...
For the third year in a row, some ExxonMobil shareholders want a vote on a proposal requiring the Irving, Texas, company to report its progress on limiting the environmental damage and community impact of hydraulic fracturing. New York ...