The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) and Generation 10 Ltd (G10), a leading provider of commodity supply chain software solutions, announce the successful launch of the ICAC World Cotton Database. The World Cotton Database, ...
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Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) has inked an agreement to acquire Towers Watson's (TW) reinsurance brokerage business, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $250m. The acquisition is part of JLT's strategy to establish global ...
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PTC announced it has acquired long-time partner NetIDEAS, a leading provider of software hosting and technical consulting services specializing in the areas of product development and product lifecycle management (PLM). Headquartered in ...
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China's Non-manufacturing PMI was 54.1 Percent in August National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-09-03 14:32:28 Department of Service Statistics of NBS China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) In August, ...
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Microsoft will be forced to rename its SkyDrive cloud storage service after failing to defend its trademark against UK broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting. BSkyB, as the service is more commonly called, filed suit against Microsoft in ...
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Analysts argued today over the significance of Apple's falling market share, reflecting the uncertainties the Cupertino, Calif. company faces in a transition to lower profits. "The current iPhone portfolio is under-performing and Apple is ...
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Apple has made progress in cutting deals with music labels for an Internet radio service but time is running out, several reports said today. According to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and others, Apple inked an agreement ...
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The U.S. tech industry added nearly 64,000 software-related jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers’ pay cheques declined by nearly 2 percent. There are multiple theories for the decline in pay, ...
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The U.S. tech industry added 67,400 jobs in 2012, a 1.1% increase from a year earlier, according to a report from the TechAmerica Foundation. The tech industry's growth slightly outpaced the overall private sector in the U.S., which grew ...
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Google beat Apple to the music subscription service punch this week, perhaps the doing of record labels who wanted to put Apple in its place, an analyst said. At its Google I/O developers conference Wednesday, Google unveiled All Access, ...
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Premier Farnell is supporting ARM processor-based designs by making available a number of development tools, software and evaluation boards across Europe. A similar offering is already available in the Americas. The distributor's ARM ...
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attune Consulting, a premier global solutions provider to the fashion and lifestyle industries, today announced that MAS Holdings, the leading South Asian manufacturer of fine apparel, and supplier of the world's leading brands of ...
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attune Consulting, a premier global solutions provider to the fashion and lifestyle industries, announced that MAS Holdings, the leading South Asian manufacturer of fine apparel, and supplier of the world's leading brands of intimates, ...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's belief that the women's revolution has "stalled" and that "men still run the world" may have merit, at least in IT. Women today are clearly rejecting IT as a career. In the early 1980s, women accounted for ...
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IT spending remained broadly strong throughout a difficult end to 2012, as business confidence waned in the shadow of the "fiscal cliff," economic growth declined in much of Europe, and economies in Asia/Pacific struggled to cope with ...
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