Confie Seguros, a rapidly growing national provider of personal lines insurance, announced the acquisition of two additional insurance brokerages: DeFranco Insurance Agency, Inc. of Niagara Falls, NY and Insurance Group of American, Inc. ...
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New York City-based window coverings and home textiles manufacturer Louis Hornick and Co. Inc. is investing $2.5 million to relocate its operations to Allendale, S.C. The company will renovate a 103,000-square-foot former textile plant that ...
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Intel is focusing its attention to small electronics, wearable technology and the do-it-yourself crowd, establishing a new business group to address those market segments. The new IOT Solutions Group will deal in chips such as the ...
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If you are interested in lighting design you may not want to miss the second Luminous Talks event in New York City. But don't worry if you can't make it to New York check in via?Philips and Parsons New School for Design's?webinar. ...
A new supercomputer being deployed this month in the U.S. is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers. The supercomputer, called Catalyst, will be ...
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With its powerful data mining capabilities, Hadoop is bringing together people across different places and even across different generations. While Hadoop continues to grow in popularity, most reported use cases around the open-source ...
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The global IT market will require 20 per cent more skilled big data analytics roles than it currently has within the next five years, Les Rechan, general manager of IBM business analytics, has warned. Speaking at IBM's Information On ...
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A team of four students from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City, representing the United States, has won the Retail Futures Challenge, an international competition that takes place at the annual World Retail ...
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Billabong International Limited announces that a US$300 million tranche of the 6 year senior secured term loan of US$360 million (A$386 million) (the "New Term Debt") provided by entities affiliated with Centerbridge Partners, L.P. and ...
The ink or ink-jet cartridge is the disposable component of a printer. The plastic body of the cartridge holds ink in one or more separate reservoirs, and is fitted with electric contacts and sometimes a chip that allows the cartridge to ...
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Microsoft bills its Bing search engine as a social one, and to keep it that way it’s renewing a partnership with Twitter to keep tweets appearing in Bing search results, the companies said Friday. Tweets have been featured ...
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A study by analyst IDC shows how companies are using the open source Hadoop big data analytics systems alongside other systems to get value out of their data. IDC’s “Trends in Enterprise Hadoop Deployments” report, ...
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Trading ranges for rhodium narrowed modestly this week on increased activity from investment banks and buying interest from industrial consumers in East Asia, traders and other market participants said Friday. The Platts New York Dealer ...
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Oil prices were little changed Monday as traders awaited U.S. crude inventories data for last week. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Energy Department' s statistical arm, will on Wednesday release its report covering U. S. ...
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US-based provider of flexible packaging products and solutions Apple Converting has obtained Safety Quality Food (SQF) Level 2 Certification for food safety fundamentals and hazard analysis critical control points. The SQF certification ...
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