Alcatel-Lucent's board has appointed Michel Combes as the company's new CEO, following Ben Verwaayen's recent resignation. It only took the Alcatel-Lucent's board two weeks to appoint a new CEO after Verwaayen's plan to step down became ...
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Hoping to cut costs and improve efficiency, the PGA of America will use a slew of rugged handheld devices for tournament scoring and other tasks during its 2013 season. The association of professional golfers, made up of 27,000 golf pros, ...
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Google yesterday released Chrome 25, patching 22 vulnerabilitiesand debuting a new security feature that blocks silent installations of add-ons. The latter is Chrome 25's most noticeable change to users. It automatically disables ...
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Websites affiliated with U.S. broadcaster NBC were hacked for several hours on Thursday, serving up malicious software intended to steal bank account details. On its own technology blog, NBC released a statement saying, "We've identified ...
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Zendesk said Thursday a hacker gained access to support information for some customers of its online help desk software. "We've become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week," wrote Mikkel Svane, Zendesk's CEO. "As soon as we ...
PayPal will introduce a mobile chip-and-PIN version of its payments service in Europe, starting with a selection of U.K. businesses over the coming months. PayPal Here will fully launch in the U.K. this summer and will be available in ...
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IBM is looking for ways to bring mobile and social workloads onto mainframes as a way of keeping the expensive machines competitive in today's changing IT landscape. This isn't the first time the company has tried to find new uses for ...
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With robots increasingly being used on factory floors and elsewhere, researchers are looking for ways to help humans work better with their electromechanical counterparts. Scientists at MIT say the answer is cross-training: Humans and ...
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UK-based pasta producer Ugo Foods has launched two new chilled pasta products under its Dell’Ugo range at Waitrose stores. The two new flavored tagliatelle include Fiery Chilli Tagliatelle and Tasty Basil Tagliatelle are available ...
US-based Empowered Premium Nutrition has launched a natural nutrition line, which is formulated specifically for women’s immunity and functional health. The line offers powders, whole-food nutrition bars, and probiotic & antioxidant ...
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Bruce Foods, a US-based privately owned food manufacturer, is recalling Food Club Red Enchilada Sauce over allergy risk. The company noted that the sauce labeled as Food Club Red Enchilada Sauce may contain Green Enchilada Sauce instead ...
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Operations at Ireland-based B&F Meats have been suspended after the regulators from Irish Department of Agriculture found that the company shipped horsemeat, which was labeled as beef, to the Czech Republic. The regulators stated that the ...
General Mills and Haagen-Dazs today announced an initiative to help smallholder vanilla farmers in Madagascar, in order to ensure the availability of vanilla for future generations. As a part of the new initiative, both the firms together ...
Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shagang Group has announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth RMB 3 billion ($477 million). The period of issuance of the short-term bonds is one year, with China CITIC Bank as the main ...
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Romania-based pasta products and cheese crackers manufacturer Pangram has unveiled a new packaging for its nuts and seeds brand ubernuts, which has been developed by brand strategy and design firm Brandient.Brandient stated that the ...
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