Prudential Financial’s Individual Life Insurance business is planning to launch BenefitAccess rider on its PruLife Universal Protector policy for an extra premium. The optional rider allows policyholders to use the death benefit to ...
Tags: Life Insurance
Aspiring communities across the nation will be able to receive Feed-in Tariff (FITs) payments for the clean green energy generated by larger community energy projects, under new plans set out by the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar PV
There is a growing demand from consumers globally to gift, share and resell digital content and video games according to research findings unveiled today by WorldPay, a global leader in payment processing, risk and alternative payments. ...
AGC Flat Glass (Thailand) Plc (AGC), the country's largest glass maker, foresees a 10% drop in revenue this year following the closure of one of its plants to pave way for a 2.4-billion-baht factory with upgraded technology. Its plant in ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
E.On has been ordered by energy watchdog Ofgem to pay £3 million due to inaccurate reporting relating to its distribution of free energy saving lamps. Under the government's Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) scheme, energy ...
Tags: energy saving lamp, Lights, Lighting
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 ...
Tags: Atos, Renault, R-Link Platform
EE, the joint venture between France Telecom's Orange and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile, is to start offering its business customers data sharing plans across entire fleets of mobile devices. The UK's biggest mobile operator, and currently ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The survey has been conducted by Germany's plastic trade association Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen (IK). In a statement, IK said: "Foreign enterprises are able to calculate with much lower energy costs: at times power costs ...
Tags: Packaging, plastic trade, Plastic Packaging
Infor is set to announce the availability of a new release of Infor M3, the next generation of its ERP application focused on the specific needs of key vertical industries, next Monday, marking the biggest release of its kind in the last ...
Tags: ERP application, functional application, computer products
MasterCard and Visa are now taking action against VPN providers, according to Swedish payment provider Payson. Customers of Payson have apparently received an email stating that VPN services are no longer able to accept Visa or MasterCard ...
Tags: Payment Service, mastercard, visa
Switzerland-based pharmaceuticals and diagnostics developer Roche has purchased US-based Constitution Medical Investors (CMI) for $220m, as part of its strategy to strengthen its hematology testing portfolio. CMI is a hematology testing ...
Tags: pharmaceuticals, diagnostics
Many small and medium-sized enterprises took a direct hit from the bank liquidity squeeze in June, which disrupted their cash flow and boosted the cost of financing. Figures from Shanghai-based Wind Information, a financial data provider, ...
Tags: Credit Crunch, Smaller Firms
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (ended 28 April), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $243.4m, up 2.1% on $238.4m the prior quarter. Fiscal Q4/2012 Q1/2013 ...
Tags: fiber-optic communications, Electrical, Electronics, subsystem
PayPal, which claims more than 128 million active accounts in 193 markets and 25 currencies around the globe, is now looking at outer space. As space tourism is expected to take off, PayPal is exploring what payment systems will be like ...
Tags: PayPal, Computer Products, payment systems
Russia's gas giant Gazprom does not expect its 2013 retroactive payments to European clients to be significantly above the Rb23 billion ($699 million) level reached in the first quarter of the year, Mikhail Rosseyev, the company's deputy ...
Tags: Chemicals, gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy