Sharon R. Driscoll, who has been senior vice president and chief financial officer of retailer Sears Canada, is leaving to pursue other interests, the company said. Driscoll, who has been with Sears Canada since November 2008 and in her ...
Many people have used mobile devices to answer work-related calls and emails while they're at home or at social gatherings. Still, how commonplace is the practice? A new survey of 1,000 U.S. workers found that people spend an average of ...
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Network World - Apple is one of the most secretive companies on the planet, so the Apple-Samsung trial was fascinating in that it lifted the veil of secrecy that typically shrouds Apple's operations. From marketing budgets to photos of ...
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Yahoo has acquired a video chat startup OnTheAir as the company focuses on mobile applications and services. "When we first met with the team at Yahoo!, it was clear that everybody there is committed to making mobile products the backbone ...
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ATLANTA — Rent-to-own merchant Aaron's said that David L. Buck and Tristan J. Montanero have each been promoted to senior vice president of operations, effective Jan. 1. Buck was vice president, southwestern operations, and ...
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IDG News Service - The judge in Apple's patent-infringement suit against Samsung Electronics turned down Apple's request that she rule in its favor as punishment for an improper disclosure by Samsung. Judge Lucy Koh issued her decision ...
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Just in time for what will be a large number of required migrations, CA Technologies has updated its software for managing DB2 databases running on IBM z/OS mainframes. "DB2 is a very rich environment, and is very specific about how you ...
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Three advocacy groups plan to file a formal complaint against AT&T, alleging the carrier is violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules for blocking a video-conferencing application on Apple's iPhones and ...
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December 22, 2012 - Just in time for Christmas, a team of GE scientists and engineers have introduced several new features to Santa’s sleigh. The updated vehicle incorporates a number of new technologies that promise to make ...
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IDG News Service - New Windows RT tablets announced at the IFA trade show in Berlin have intensified competition among ARM-based chip makers, which are adding unique capabilities to processors so tablets become more attractive to buyers ...
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Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) December 21, 2012 -- Chuck Gallagher, international Business Ethics expert was the featured keynote speaker at the Medtronic – Culture of Ethics and ...
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Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors, one of the most dominant retail investment groups in the western United States and a market leader in the sale of retail properties, announced today that the firm represented the seller in the ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard has found new leadership for its Autonomy information management software division in the form of Microsoft executive Robert Youngjohns, HP announced Friday. Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch left the ...
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Lexicon Pharmaceuticals has won Fast Track status from the US FDA to develop LX1033, an orally-delivered small molecule drug candidate to treat diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-d). Fast Track facilitates the development ...
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Expanding its portfolio of cloud computing services, Google is launching an IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) package, called Google Compute Engine (GCE). "We've heard from many of our customers that not having an IaaS was a barrier to ...
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