Consumer research and TV ratings firm Nielsen agreed on Monday to buy market research firm Harris Interactive for about $116.6 million, saying it will help it provide insights to customers. Harris Interactive said Nielsen agreed to pay $2 ...
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U.S. scientists report progress of a hormone therapy that can improve the outcome of bone grafts to treat bone loss from disease, birth defects or trauma. Zulma Gazit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Edward Schwarz of Rochester University ...
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Durham, N.C.-based antimicrobial textile technology provider PurThread Technologies Inc. and Rochester, N.Y.-based Eastman Kodak Co. have signed a globally exclusive agreement with under which PurThread will embed Kodak's antimicrobial ...
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Diamond Packaging won five awards, including Folding Carton of the Year, in the 70th Annual North American Paperboard Packaging Competition, the industry's premier showcase for all that is new and outstanding in paperboard packaging design ...
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Treating the elderly didn't drive the U.S. increase in healthcare cost from 2000; 91 percent was from professional services, drugs and devices, researchers say. Dr. Hamilton Moses III of the Alerion Institute in North Garden, Va., and the ...
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The ability to predict the future has long been the stuff of science fiction or, more often, pure fantasy, with hard science usually finding it difficult to rationalise there ever being a way to use technology to foretell what is to come. ...
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While most companies selling you the big data solution may tell you they've got it all figured, one of IBM's top data analytics researchers delivered a hefty dose of reality at the company's Information on Demand 2013 conference in Las ...
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Kateeva Chief Technology Officer and OLED co-inventor Steven Van Slyke was inducted into the 2013 Consumer Electronics (CE) Hall of Fame for his contributions to the advancement of the consumer electronics industry. Van Slyke was one of 15 ...
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Samuelsohn, the premium menswear brand based in Montreal, finalized its acquisition of the Hickey Freeman clothing assets, license and Rochester manufacturing facilities. With the close of this landmark deal, the company becomes the ...
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World class is not a term that is bestowed lightly, but that's precisely what owners and brothers George and Johnny Nikollaj and cousin Tomy Lulgjuraj were aiming for when they opened 6 Salon in Royal Oak, MI in 2003. Along with their team ...
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Fall is in the air and with it the annual display of brilliant foliage. Much like the vivid colors of a leaf are hidden by excess green contained in chlorophyll, the true colors in paintings displayed in many museums are masked by lighting ...
Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis, the integrated free zone technology park, today received a high-ranking delegation from Nigeria headed by His Excellency Salamatu Rabiu Musa, Kano State ...
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Frito-Lay North America, a convenient foods business unit of PepsiCo, is set to add 20 electric vehicles to its fleet in New York, along with enhanced electric vehicle charging stations. With this development, Frito-Lay will have 35 ...
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Kemps, a US-based dairy processor, is set to shut its Duluth milk processing facility on 4 October, a move which will lead to 35 job losses. The company stated that the decision has been made due to declining milk production volumes and ...
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Which industries are the top drivers of job growth for each of the 100 largest U.S. markets? Which metros have added the most jobs post-recession? Which metros have the biggest concentration of jobs in healthcare, technology, construction, ...