Sprint Nextel posted another quarterly loss but reported progress toward becoming just plain Sprint, a company with more money and fewer networks, which it hopes to be by the end of this year. The company is on track to shut down its ...
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Six years after its long-delayed but well-publicized release, Windows Vista now accounts for less than 6% of all Windows machines, a metrics company said earlier this month. According to Net Applications, Vista's usage share of all ...
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Larson Electronics has announced today the release of an intrinsically safe rated LED headlight that provides high output and hands free operation coupled with intrinsically safe rated operation. The EXP-LED-HL-DFX Explosion Proof Dual ...
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Intel Capital has invested in software-defined networking company Big Switch Networks, as it hopes to help the company change the way data centers are networked. Intel Capital is looking for companies that are creating the most disruptive ...
Hewlett-Packard has issued new guidelines to limit the use of student labor at its supplier factories in China, in what it claimed was the first of its kind for the IT industry. The company issued the guidelines to address "the ...
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Sterling Insurance has renewed its partnership contract with DAS to extend supply of legal expenses cover to its customers. As part of the agreement, DAS will offer legal expenses cover across the company's personal and commercial product ...
US-based health insurer WellPoint (WLP) has named Joseph Swedish as the company's new chief executive officer effective from 25 March 2013. Swedish, who replaces interim chief executive officer John Cannon, joins WLP from Trinity Health ...
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Virginia's The Hilb Group (THG) has completed the acquisition of Crofton-based mid-market insurance broker The Pennoyer Group. The deal came into effect from 31 January 2013, after receiving approval from its shareholders. Established ...
The infrared Oslon black SFH 4725S LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors has a wavelength of 940 nanometers, making it nearly invisible to the human eye, and its black package reflects virtually no ambient light. Together with its high optical ...
Mutual insurer The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has selected California-based technology company DentalXChange, to provide online claims status verification for dentists. DentalXChange provides online solutions to connect ...
Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) has implemented CallidusCloud's Commissions to automate incentive compensation process for its wholesalers. The selection follows a comprehensive evaluation process, during which the ...
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US’s employee benefits-only agency Digital Insurance has collaborated with CUNA Mutual Group, to prepare customers to address changes in health care reform and to modify their employee benefits packages accordingly. As part of the ...
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American Financial Group has reported net earnings attributable to shareholders of $50m, or $0.54 per share for the fourth quarter of 2012, against $109m, or $1.09 per share during the same period earlier year. The P&C specialty insurance ...
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Standard Life is reportedly engaged in discussions with Newton Investment Management over a potential deal to acquire wealth management unit in a deal expected to be finalized around pound 90m. The deal is expected to be announced soon, ...
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Genworth US Mortgage Insurance (USMI) has launched a new set of rules, Simply Underwrite (SM), which enables lenders to provide simplified and expanded national mortgage underwriting guidelines. Apart from offering one expanded national ...