Yahoo wants to accelerate its development of mobile products geared toward delivery of personalized content, CEO Marissa Mayer said Tuesday, as the company works to stay relevant in a world where smartphones and tablets are becoming ...
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The UK Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether in-app payments on smartphones and tablet computers are illegally encouraging children to spend money. The investigation follows several recent cases in which children have spent ...
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In just one year, on April 8, 2014, Microsoft will stop delivering security updates for?Windows XP, the second most popular operating system in the world. Microsoft issued several?blog posts?Monday urging businesses to get out before it was ...
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Tesco is to step up its assault in the e-commerce space with the launch of two specialist websites for e-books and music later this year. The firm has hired Facebook's head of retail for EMEA, Gavin Sathianathan, to lead Blinkboxbooks, ...
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When was the last time you heard sustainability referred to as a journey? Chances are not too long ago as it is quite a common statement. Often we may not give the word journey its due meaning. A journey requires some level of commitment ...
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But passing the half-way mark of this interim profit season, we now have proof that his real error was putting a super-profits tax on the wrong industry. While profits were sliding at Rio Tinto, OZ Minerals and Wesfarmers' coal division, ...
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Use your bookcases to display more than your treasured literature collection; take a cue from your rooms and books themselves to transform your bookcase from storage space to home accent. Showcase your knick knacks. We know that, in ...
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Britvic’s merger with AG Barr has been delayed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which extended its timetable for a decision today (January 14). Britvic makes Tango, Robinsons, J2O and Fruit Shoot After shareholders voted to ...
The OFT is scrutinising the deal to see if it could result in a “substantial lessening of competition” in the UK drinks industry. The firms said in a joint statement: “[We] have been informed…that the OFT is ...
LG Electronics (LG) today announced an all-new Magic Remote for its CINEMA 3D Smart TV lineup in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The redesigned device adopts enhanced speech recognition capabilities that make ...
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Ovum analysts and SAP User Group UK Vice Chair comment on SAP's claims of analytics speed record SAP has said that its Business Suite will now run on its HANA in-memory platform.The new software is intended to help enterprises run their ...
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has written to over 50 of the leading installers of energy efficient products such as LED lights, double glazing, insulation and solar panels, to ask them to ensure they provide consistently good standards. ...
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Predictive analytics helps firms to get "about three per cent better at guessing" what a consumer would like to buy, according to the founder and chief of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), Jim Manzi. "Realistically, what predictive ...
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Daily's Cocktails, the manufacturer of the original frozen pouch cocktail, is excited to announce the addition of three new light cocktail pouches to their already extensive line of flavors. Three new delicious flavors are joining Daily's ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will speed up the release cadence of Windows, starting in 2013, to issue annual OS upgrades, according to reports on the Web today. But analysts believe that the new pace will be both difficult for Microsoft to ...
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