Robert Youngjohns HP has acquired the services of Microsoft executive Robert Youngjohns to lead its Autonomy information management software division, HP announced Friday. Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch left the company in May. As of ...
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Moves to subsume Autonomy into HP have lent an increasing amount of irony to the company’s name, following the departure of founder Mike Lynch and the expansion of its key tools to become add-ons across a much broader range of ...
Misfit Wearables, a pioneer in the emerging world of wearable sensor technology, unveiled the Misfit Shine, a wireless, smart and precious physical activity tracker with bold design. The Misfit Shine is an elegant all-metal disc with a ...
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Industry veteran Leon Silverstein joined the RavenBrick board of directors,according to an Oct.16 announcement from the Denver-based supplier of thermochromic window technology.Silverstein will be one of six members on the reorganized ...
HIGH POINT Ron Hahn will launch a case goods importer called DesignWorks at this month's High Point Market that joins the industry veteran with the former designers of Sitcom Furniture. Hahn is the former CEO and president of Universal ...
The appointment of former Tesco UK chief Richard Brasher as Pick n Pay's new CEO last week may not be enough to turn around the fortunes of the South African supermarket operator, some analysts have suggested. Brasher, who will relocate ...
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The former CEO of GreenWood International Insurance Services Daniel G Boisvert has established a new insurance distribution company GW Global Insurance. The newly floated underwriter will cater retail agents and brokers with a ...
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German heavy engineering giant ThyssenKrupp has been bracing for multi billion euro (dollar) losses over the planned sale of its steel plants in the Americas. Construction defects will cost the firm dearly. Speculation about Germany's ...
The former CEO of Fonterra has joined the board of directors of US agribusiness giant Bunge. Ferrier, who left New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra in July last year, will join the Bunge board with immediate effect, the group said today (5 ...
Body Central Corp. announced financial results for the third quarter and for the thirty-nine week period ending September 29, 2012. Highlights for the third quarter ended September 29, 2012: Net revenues for the quarter increased ...
In 2012 Australian retail conditions continued to be difficult. Although the fundamentals of the Australian economy improved with growing GDP, declining interest rates and low levels of unemployment, consumer sentiment remained soft with ...
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Computerworld-Hewlett-Packard says it will aggressively seek recompense for alleged fraud on the part of U.K.software vendor Autonomy,which HP acquired in a$10.3 billion deal last year.HP said accounting improprieties by Autonomy were to ...
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IDG News Service-News of weak server sales,continuing turmoil at Hewlett-Packard and the ongoing U.S.political impasse over the so-called"fiscal cliff"have not given tech industry watchers much to cheer about this week. Major IT companies ...
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The Wet Seal Inc.,a leading specialty retailer to young women,announced that Kathy Bronstein,retail consultant and former CEO of Wet Seal,and John Goodman,most recently Executive Vice President of Apparel and Home at Sears and former CEO of ...
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Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard has called in the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after uncovering what it claims are accounting irregularities at intelligent-search software vendor Autonomy, which it acquired for $11.1bn (£7bn) in August ...
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