Marissa Mayer, participating in her first Yahoo earnings conference call since becoming CEO, outlined a broad range of areas in which the company needs to improve. “It was an active and solid quarter with some nice ...
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The extension of the Solvency II compliance deadline from November of this year to January 2014 can be seen as both reassuring and concerning from a data management perspective. The European Union directive, aimed at regulating insurance ...
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Viridis Energy is about to take over the pellet producer Enligna, which has been insolvent since August 2011. On 22 December 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which had been appointed by the court as administrator of Enligna, accepted a ...
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Microsoft Windows 8 support for TPM Tipping point for TPM TPM gathers momentum The end of the password? TPM in action across all devices Since 2006, many new computing devices have been sold with a built-in trusted platform module ...
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A Yahoo user has sued the web portal company for negligence for allowing more than 450,000 user names and passwords to be stolen from one of its sites. Jeff Allan of New Hampshire, whose login credentials were posted online after a ...
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The UK government has injected a second round of cash into its pound 25m Higher Apprenticeship Fund. The funding aims to develop 4,230 new Higher Apprenticeships in sectors including low-carbon engineering, space engineering, legal ...
Former TescoCEO Terry Leahy will take up the post of chairman at B&M Retail after private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice acquired a majority stake in UK discount retailer. B&M, owned by the Arora family, will continue to be managed ...
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Rexam, a global consumer packaging company, has launched its first Sustainability Report, which has also been recognized by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Rexam chief executive Graham Chipchase said the firm has an important role ...
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Gain new insights and ideas from inspiring opinion leaders and global industry experts Messe Frankfurt’s premiere auto industry gathering, NextGen Auto International Summit China, is designed as a truly international thought ...
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Microsoft today launched Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012-a single,powerful enterprise resource planning(ERP)solution that is purpose-built for five industries(manufacturing,distribution,retail,public sector and service industries and includes ...
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The first barrel of ethane from the Bakken field will go to Nova Chemicals' Joffre, Alberta facility to be value added and converted into polyethylene next year, which explains why CEO Randy Woelfel described himself at an industry event in ...
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For the 14th time, the business daily WirtschaftsBlatt set out to identify the most successful companies in Austria together with the credit reference agency KSV1870 and PwC. Lenzing AG once again convinced the jury and won the Austrian ...
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2013,brighter,more efficient streetlights will begin to go up in Fayetteville neighborhoods. As part of a pilot study by the Public Works Commission,the city-owned utility plans to convert about 300 conventional streetlights to LED ...
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UK - Birmingham Hippodrome has announced the successful completion of its Stage Appeal having raised the target of £1m towards extensive refurbishments costing over £2m. The 30-year old stage was completely replaced, over 500 ...
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The Boards of Directors of Pantaloon Retail India Limited(PRIL)and Future Ventures India Ltd,(FVIL)approved a proposal to consolidate their fashion businesses into a new to be listed entity(Future Fashion),which would emerge as one of ...