Sony has hired two former Apple execs as it tries to build momentum behind its latest Xperia smartphones and tablets. Joining Sony's board are Eikoh Harada, the former head of Apple Japan, and Tim Schaff, who worked for the iPhone ...
Add LinkedIn to the list of Internet companies trying to make themselves safer from cyberattacks by adding two-step authentication. Users of the professional social-networking site now have the option to add two-step verification to their ...
Symrise has moved into its new research centre at its headquarters in Holzminden. With the new building, the company is promoting the interdisciplinary research dialogue between its two divisions, Scent & Care and Flavor & Nutrition. Dr ...
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GE Edison Award recognizes Vintry Fine Wines project by L’Observatoire International. Cathode Lighting Systems is pleased to announce that Hervé Descottes, Jeff Taylor and Jessica Tchah of L’Observatoire International ...
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The company that owns a U.S. patent for podcasting is confident the patent will stand up to a challenge initiated this week by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Personal Audio's patents have stood up to past scrutiny, including a ...
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Some Taiwan-based IC suppliers have been ramping their shipments of LED driver ICs to China thanks to the fledging LED lighting industry in the country and growing demand for LED backlight products from China-based smartphone, tablet and ...
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Wolverhampton City Council has announced it will save £3.4m over the next two years by selecting UNIT 4's Agresso Local Government ERP platform. Underpinning the council's five-year "FutureWorks" modernisation programme - which is ...
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Twitter has become an essential part of the small business marketing playbook, but it remains a difficult platform to truly get your arms around. Some tweets will go gangbusters on the service, replied-to and retweeted for hours. Others ...
New York-based Utica National Insurance Group (Ultica) has deployed MajescoMastek's STG billing system on a private cloud to improve its customer experience. Replacing its 30 year old traditional billing system, STG billing solution will ...
It is learned that Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel is to shut down a blast furnace and other upstream equipment at its Kobe Works plant in western Japan in the financial year 2017-18. The decision came after the announcement of ¥ 50.2 ...
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New York-based insurer MetLife has eliminated the jobs of 2,500 advisers, representing a third of total, in a bid to save operational cost and make the company more productive. Other reasons of the job cuts as dictated by the company ...
It is reported that NLMK, the Russian steelmaker announced that starting 30th May, it is idling its blast furnace No. 3. The furnace which is situated at a site in Lipetsk has an annual capacity of 1.3 million tons of production. The blast ...
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BioDrain Medical will install 20 Streamway surgical waste fluid management systems in ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) across seven states in the US. BioDrain develops Streamway, an automated, direct-to-drain surgical fluid disposal ...
Australia-based medical devices company Uscom has entered into an agreement to acquire New Zealand-based Pulsecor by offering five million fully paid ordinary Uscom shares. Under the terms of the agreement, Uscom will acquire all Pulsecor ...
Packaging-centric supply chain services company Coregistics has acquired substantially all of the assets of US-based Cano Packaging, for an undisclosed value. The combination of the two companies is expected to increase Coregistics ...
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