GE Lighting of East Cleveland, OH, USA has named Agostino Renna as president & CEO of GE Lighting Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Reporting to GE Lighting president & CEO Maryrose Sylvester, he succeeds Phil Marshall, who has led GE ...
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Inspectrology LLC of Sudbury, MA, USA, which manufactures the IVS optical overlay metrology product line, has signed agreements to be represented in Asia by Excellis Pte Ltd of Singapore and in Europe by Eumetrys SAS of Gaillac, France. ...
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Organizers of Invest in Photonics 2012, a two-day international convention on photonics venture capital (VC) investment, said that participation at last month’s event increased “despite a tough investment decade in ...
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It's no secret that enterprise collaboration is on the rise: Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2015, 40 percent of large businesses will have the equivalent of a corporate Facebook network. That prevalence, coupled with the many ...
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Security National Financial Corporation (SNFCA), through its wholly owned subsidiary Security National Life Insurance Company, has completed a coinsurance transaction with Mothe Life Insurance, and DLE Life Insurance Company. Further ...
The fortunes of the Australian Cotton Growing industry are largely determined by global cotton demand, the world price of cotton and domestic growing conditions. Australia is a small cotton producer on a global scale; however, nearly all ...
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Dastkari Haat Bazaar – a crafts and skill exchange programme between India and Pakistan, has begun at Delhi Haat, in New Delhi. The intention underlying participation of Pakistani artisans in the 15-day skill exchange programme, ...
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We are pleased to announce two new exhibitions for summer 2013. Milestones: Textiles of Transition will explore how historic and contemporary textiles have been created for and continue to signify moments of transition—birth, ...
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Microsoft has entered into an agreement to buy Perceptive Pixel (PPI) a vendor of large-scale, multitouch displays, an acquisition Microsoft expects will boost its enterprise collaboration and communication offerings. PPI was founded in ...
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Samsung is building a tablet based on Windows RT for release sometime in October, according to unnamed sources who spoke to the Bloomberg news service. Samsung joins Acer and Asus, among other device makers, to build the touchscreen ...
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Microsoft is modifying its Office 365 sales agreement with partners to motivate them to push the product more aggressively, the company announced on Monday. Microsoft wants to make Office 365 easier to sell and more profitable for its ...
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A group of hackers on Thursday published a list of over 453,000 log-in credentials on the Internet that were allegedly stolen from a database associated with an unnamed Yahoo service. The group of hackers calls itself "the D33Ds Company" ...
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American Capital,Ltd.announced that in December 2012 its portfolio company Potpourri Group,Inc.acquired Cuddledown,Inc.,a leading multi-channel retailer of high-end bedding related products.PGI is a multi-brand direct marketer offering a ...
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EcVision,the leading supply chain collaboration platform provider for retail,announced that it will demonstrate the mobile application capabilities for retailers at the National Retail Federation Big Show in January 2013. "Mobile ...
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The House Judiciary Committee is moving toward passage of a small portion of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, raising concerns among SOPA opponents. The committee has released a draft bill, called the Intellectual Property ...
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