The Tire Industry Association (TIA) has named Lex Brodie, Robert "Bob" Dunlap and Richard "Dick" Johnson to the TIA Hall of Fame. They will be recognized at TIA's Tire Industry Honors event on Nov. 4, 2013, one day prior to the Global ...
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Southern Wine & Spirits Pacific Northwest, a multi-state division of Southern Wine & Spirits of America, is set to purchase US-based Phoenix Wine & Spirits. With this transaction, the combined entity, operating under the SWS-Utah name, ...
Microsoft has integrated Outlook.com with Skype in several countries, including the U.K., the U.S. and Germany, offering users the ability to tap Skype functions and contacts from within the interface of the webmail application. The link ...
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U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have introduced legislation that would help consumers distinguish between dietary supplements that are safe and those that have potentially serious side-effects or drug ...
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Smack Sportswear the leading brand of custom-designed volleyball apparel for indoor and beach volleyball players alike, announced plans to develop partnerships with chain, online and catalog sports apparel retailers as part of their ...
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Former V8 Supercars (or Australian Touring Car Championship) contenders are set to return to the track in two revival racing days in the coming month. First is the Lakeside Classic in Queensland (July 19-21), which will see former-racer ...
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) installed 48 Incito™ LED downlights embedded with nLIGHT® lighting controls from Acuity Brands Inc. (NYSE: AYI) as part of the University's renovation of the Great Dome in the Barker ...
SONY has upgraded its landmark SmartWatch giving it longer battery life, NFC communications, and making it water resistant. In a statement released overnight, Sony hailed its new SmartWatch 2 as being "a multi-functional message ...
Twitter will inform users of government data requests and in some cases reject them to protect the privacy of users, its chief executive said Wednesday. Dick Costolo, appearing at a forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington, ...
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iGPS Company LLC, operator and owner of the largest global pallet rental pool of lightweight, 100% recyclable plastic platforms with embedded RFID tags, today announced that it has reached an agreement for the sale of substantially all of ...
Global pallet rental pool operator iGPS has signed an agreement for the sale of substantially all of its assets to iGPS Logistics for an undisclosed value. According to the US-based company, iGPS Logistics is a joint venture formed by ...
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The International Olympic Committee’s executive board has trimmed the number of sport hopefuls for the final open slot during the 2020 Games to three from eight. The final vote to determine which activity—baseball/softball, ...
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The largest U.S. full-line sporting goods retailer with an estimated 8.5% market share from nearly $6 billion in FY12 revenues and a five-year CAGR of 8% on sales, has four clear goals—reaching a double-digit operating margin; ...
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Just like on Twitter, Facebook is now putting a small, blue check mark next to the names of celebrities and other high-profile people and businesses on the site to signify their authenticity. The feature, called Verified Pages, will apply ...
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Wargaming, the developer of award-winning massively multiplayer online (MMO) game World of Tanks, is set to expand its data centres across Europe. The games developer already uses Equinix data centres in Amsterdam, but looks to prepare ...
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