The Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) is asking companies around Silicon Roundabout to share their experiences of broadband in the area. The group was boosted recently when Vodafone and Amazon announced plans to invest in the ...
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Farm & General Insurance Consultants, a specialist agricultural and horticultural insurance provider, has selected Transactor Global Solutions Ltd (TGSL) as its new software supplier. Products to be delivered include branded B2B & B2C ...
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Mutual insurance, retirement and investment group LV= and Swiss Re successfully completed GBP800m ($1.3bn) longevity insurance contract. The longevity contract involves longevity exposure insurance for 5,000 individuals who were members ...
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MitrAssist Medical has obtained ISO 13485:2003 certification for the design of implantable mitral valve prostheses. By using a minimally invasive procedure, the mitral valve prosthesis is delivered via a small-diameter catheter, thus ...
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Google is rolling out a tool for Apps administrators to search through Gmail logs,the company announced on Tuesday. The feature,available in the Apps control panel,has long been requested by IT administrators of the cloud collaboration ...
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Hood Group unit Select and Protect has selected RSA to serve as underwriter for its Ultima home insurance product. RSA personal lines broker managing director Jill White said, "A key part of our strategy is to work with chosen partners ...
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Levi Strauss & Co. announced that Harmit Singh will join the company as executive vice president and chief financial officer on January 16, 2013, reporting to company president and chief executive officer Chip Bergh. In this role, he ...
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A California court has ordered Oracle to continue support for the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle announced it would no longer develop its market-leading database server for the ...
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A Yahoo user has sued the web portal company for negligence for allowing more than 450,000 user names and passwords to be stolen from one of its sites. Jeff Allan of New Hampshire, whose login credentials were posted online after a ...
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Computerworld - When one talks of computers today, he or she could be referring to a laptop, a desktop or maybe even a smartphone. Sergey Brin, CEO and co-founder of Google, wears Google Glasses during a product ...
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US based health insurer UnitedHealth has reported an increase in its profits by 23% with net earnings of $1.56bn, or $1.50 a share for the third quarter that ended on 30 September 2012, up from $1.27bn, or $1.17 a share, a year earlier. ...
Apple®today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone®5 in China,just three days after its launch on December 14.iPhone 5 will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of December,making it the fastest ...
Win-Med, a distributor of airway management devices, has entered into a collaboration agreement with ETView Medical. Under the agreement, Win-Med will distribute ETView's VivaSight airway management platform in northern Italy for a ...
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The winner of the Microsoft Apprentice of the Year awards has been chosen from thousands of apprentices and Microsoft partners. David Robertson (pictured centre), from Worthing, was crowned winner of the Microsoft Apprentice of the Year, ...
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India-based Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the largest polyester yarn producer in the world, which is also counted among the leading petrochemical producers in the world, is open to investing more in Malaysia. This was stated ...
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