Mobile telecoms firm Vodafone paid no UK corporation tax for a second year running, despite its revenues exceeding £5bn in Britain. Vodafone, which owns and operates networks in over 30 countries, claimed that its investment in ...
Tags: Computer Products, Mobile telecoms
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to GenSpera for the activation of peptide prodrugs by HK2, which is an enzyme secreted by prostate cancer cells. Composition of a series of prodrugs activated by HK2 enzyme ...
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DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an unnamed financial services firm earlier this week using one of the largest traffic bombardments ever recorded, mitigation firm Prolexic has reported. The 167 Gbps peak attack hit what is being ...
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The ban was introduced in 2011 in shops across Italy, with only biodegradable, cloth or paper bags on offer. Italy will only be able to impose fines on violators when the law is approved by the European Union, and many small shops and ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Plastic Bags
Megapop games is proud to announce that it has won the Investor Live Pitch Battle at the annual Nordic Game conference. In a fierce battle between 20+ Nordic companies, four ended up in the final round. Once there, Megapop pitched to a ...
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Apple will build Macs in Texas using some parts made in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday, putting a little flesh on a pledge from last December. In a prepared statement Cook read before a Senate subcommittee yesterday, the chief ...
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Designs for more than two dozen advanced U.S. weapon systems, including missile defenses, combat aircraft and ships, were reportedly accessed by Chinese hackers. The systems were listed in a previously undisclosed section of a report ...
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MILAN — May 2013 — Following a 2012 already suffering from an 11% drop in production, Italy's textile machinery sector has opened 2013 with a negative order intake compared to the previous quarter. Based on an economic survey ...
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Computer giant Oracle is setting up a data centre "in the Thames Valley" in order to retain and capture government cloud computing business. The data centre is Oracle's second in the UK after Linlithgow in Scotland, which it picked up ...
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The pack is a Tetra Prism pack and it is supported by London 2012 Olympic gold medallist and taekwondo champion Jade Jones MBE. The AOk re-sealable drinks pack features the 20-year-old martial arts star on pack as the official face of the ...
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Following a 2012 already suffering from an 11% drop in production, Italy’s textile machinery sector has opened 2013 with a negative order intake compared to the previous quarter. Based on an economic survey conducted by ACIMIT, the ...
Tags: Textile Machinery, Textile
First Capital-AWIS and Hudson Insurance Group have jointly launched new insurance services professional liability primary and excess facility for brokers and policyholders. Underwritten by Hudson and administered exclusively by First ...
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Urgent action is needed to reduce the U.S. military's dangerous dependence on foreign suppliers for the raw materials, parts and finished products needed to defend America, according to a new study prepared by Brigadier General John Adams ...
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The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at risk by exposing agencies to faulty parts and to the possibility that producing nations ...
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Defense Distributed, the company that developed the Liberator 3D printed gun, today released a YouTube video demonstrating its first test firing of the weapon. With dramatic orchestral music setting the tone, the video shows a man firing ...
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