US-based Acentia has secured a contract worth $1.25m from the State of Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH) to provide its secure cloud-based national electronic disease surveillance system base system (NBS) for the DOH’s Division ...
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Teamsters union members at YRC Worldwide Inc. voted to a four-year contract extension through 2019, which the carrier called a “key ingredient” toward refinancing $1.4 billion in debt. The result was announced Jan. 26 after ...
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The British Furniture Manufacturers Association (BFM) and the Furniture Industry Research Association (FIRA) have signed an agreement which sets out details of a closer working relationship for 2014. The new co-operative working ...
Flexographic systems supplier DuPont Packaging Graphics has selected Mark Andy Print Products as a distributor of its Cyrel flexographic systems in the US. The move is part of the company's plan to improve its flexographic technology as ...
Google has exited the smartphone manufacturing business and shored up Android's legal defenses in the smartphone patent wars in a single week. The technology giant sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a US $12.5-billion deal on Wednesday ...
Russia's gasoline and naphtha exports rose in January, as the cheaper ruble versus the US dollar made export netbacks more attractive, trading sources said. According to Energy Ministry figures, 384,370 mt of gasoline were exported in ...
The Ugandan government has signed a long awaited deal with UK-based Tullow Oil, Total and China National Offshore Oil Corp, to develop its oil sector, paving the way for the country's first commercial crude production. The pact details ...
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Supply offers nation more import sources, enhances energy security Energy-rich Russia has started delivering crude oil to China as of the beginning of the year after the contract signed between the two countries last June, which will ...
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Gazprom expects to sign a long-awaited gas supply contract with China National Petroleum Corp during the planned visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China in May, despite the ongoing failure of the two sides to agree on a price for ...
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Ballard Power Systems has entered into an equipment supply agreement with Solaris Bus and Coach to supply two zero emission fuel cell power modules, FCvelocity-HD7, for the production of buses. FCvelocity-HD7 power modules will be used in ...
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In an effort to escape its pre-existing search agreement with Microsoft, Yahoo is fast-tracking an effort to develop search technology, according to a report from Recode.net. It said that that Yahoo has launched two projects, “Fast ...
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The USDA catfish inspection program, first authorized in 2008, is continued in the 2014 farm bill, which also includes a first-of-its-kind “crop insurance” program for catfish farmers. Most of the so-called political experts ...
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP have announced an expansion of their worldwide alliance by signing a global original equipment manufacturer agreement that introduces plans to include SAP HANA delivered by HDS. With this agreement, the ...
Nike Inc. reached an agreement with the South African Football Association (SAFA) to develop and supply football kits for the men’s and women’s South African national football teams. The deal marks Nike's only partnership with ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a bold initiative this week calling on tech giants and Western powers to band together to protect the world from cyber-attacks, vowing to relax export restrictions normally placed on ...
Tags: protect the world from cyber-attacks, cyber technology trade