Marsh & McLennan Companies has reported a net income of $388m, or $.69 per share for the second quarter of 2013, compared to $329m, or $.59 per share during the corresponding period earlier year. Commenting on the financial result, Marsh ...
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Oracle is introducing a new generation of its Exalytics appliance for high-speed data analysis that comes with a slightly higher price tag but major increases in memory and storage capacity. Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4, which was ...
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Atos subsidiary in electronic payments and transactional services Atos Worldline has signed a deal with the French carmaker Renault to use its R-Link Cloud services platform. The platform will be used in Atos products used in vehicles to ...
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The biannual Smart Conference and Expo has come to a close for another time, and delivered a strong and improved conference program. With both the number of presentations and visitors up on the previous conference, it offered something for ...
Women’s specialty clothing brand, Free People, has launched a dedicated app. The multichannel app will allow iPhone users to shop while on the go, browse the brand’s most recent campaigns, scan hangtags to access online content, ...
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Analysing information from transactions in real time can enable retailers to boost sales and discover banking errors, according to Juan Luis Carselle, assistant director of IT strategic planning and information security at Walmart Mexico ...
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SAP is at work on a new product called Sentinel that is supposed to be "nothing less than the Amazon for Stocks and the Facebook for Investors," according to a job posting associated with the project. "We take our metaphors seriously," ...
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Global insurance broking and risk management company Marsh has entered into an agreement to purchase Franco & Acra Tecniseguros, an insurance adviser in the Dominican Republic, for an undisclosed sum. Following completion of the deal, the ...
The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a new in-memory OLTP engine, one built ...
T-Mobile had been using Software AG's Aris to align its business processes for over a decade, but when news broke of a merger with Orange, the company had to review whether the platform was still the best fit for the job. EE's head of ...
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Development platform vendor Verivo Software wants to provide the back end for mobile enterprise apps to make it easier for corporate programmers to add features such as off-line access and authentication. As company CEO Steve Levy puts ...
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Intel has released details about its forthcoming i-series microprocessors, dubbed "Haswell", which it claims will feature radically reduced power consumption. The details cover the high-end quad-core Core i7 and Core i5 microprocessor ...
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GE Healthcare, the healthcare division of General Electric, has acquired Unisyn Medical Technologies' Transactional Business, a leading provider of ultrasound probe repair solutions, for undisclosed amount. The products and services from ...
For the latest release of its Foglight application performance management (APM) software, Dell has provided a new view that summarizes how transactions perform across a system. "We're pulling together all the aspects of a user's ...
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A cottage industry is growing up around virtual padlocks that consumers can place on cloud services so that the vendors themselves can't get to the information -- even if the government requests access. And in recent years there have been ...
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