The financial services firm has unveiled its new report entitled 2013 Global forest, paper, and packaging trend watch: A changing landscape: South America’s influence on global markets. The report states that significant capacity ...
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The government's investment in cyber security is embarrassing, according to security experts. The government announced plans to invest £650m over a four-year period on cyber security, after the 2010 National Security Strategy rated ...
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PE INTERNATIONAL, global sustainability software and services firm, announced it has been selected by Kimberly-Clark to help manage their corporate-wide sustainability initiatives. With PE INTERNATIONAL, Kimberly-Clark is upgrading its ...
Dell last week released a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that highlighted commercial considerations that led to the firm looking to go private, citing the financial outlook for the PC market as a primary reason. ...
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Epicor is suing IT service provider Alternative Technology Solutions, claiming the company illegally used its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software in order to develop and sell add-ons and services, in a case that has parallels to ...
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Global asset manager Principal Global Investors is selling a minority stake in Post Advisory Group to Nippon Life Insurance, in a move that can broaden Post’s distribution in Japan. Based in Santa Monica, California, Post is a ...
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North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.07 billion in orders worldwide in February 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.10, according to the February Book-to-Bill Report published ...
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Fewer than 10 per cent of UK enterprise users are basing decisions to refresh their technology estates on a Windows 8 migration, a Computing survey has revealed. Respondents were asked for the main drivers behind their decisions to ...
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Asset advisory and auction services firm Heritage Global Partners (HGP, a subsidiary of Counsel RB Capital) and equipment auction and valuation firm The Branford Group have announced a global webcast auction of late-model silicon carbide ...
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Arthur J Gallagher & Co, a US-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, has purchased Missouri-based independent insurance agency Metzler Bros. Insurance. Further terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. ...
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A Texas IT services firm has been indicted by federal authorities for using H-1B visa workers to create an inexpensive "as needed" labor force. A multi-count indictment filed last month charged that Dibon Solutions of Carrollton, Texas ...
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White Mountains Solutions Holding Company has signed a definitive agreement to buy a runoff insurance subsidiary of Leucadia National Corporation (LUK), Empire Insurance. Subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval ...
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IT services firm Infosys has joined forces with research body National ICT Australia to tackle hard technology issues faced by business. These issues include businesses seeking to radically update outdated data processing systems and ...
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Unprecedented federal budget problems are creating a new reality for the software development operations of government IT units. The days of the big, lumbering, multiyear government IT projects are likely coming to an end as more and more ...
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Supermarket giant Morrisons is under fire from its suppliers for the late payment of invoices, which, they say, the retailer is blaming on a faulty computer system, FoodManufacture.co.uk can exclusively reveal. Morrisons has been accused ...