US-based life insurer MetLife has finalized acquisition of a 64.3% stake of Chilean pension fund administrator, AFP Provida from Spanish bank BBVA, in a deal worth approximately $1.54bn. From the sale of AFP, the Spanish bank received ...
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Matteo Sinigaglia, Fashion Box CEO, welcomed first team players of FC Barcelona together with coach, Gerardo Martino, at Replay's flagship store in Barcelona to present and personally hand them the new Replay official clothing line which ...
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Frank Baitman, the CIO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was at the Amazon Web Services conference here praising the company’s services. His talk was on the verge of becoming a long infomercial, when he ...
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The National Security Agency (NSA) has tapped into the networks of Google, Brazilian oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, and systems operated by France's foreign ministry, according to leaked US documents. The documents were aired by ...
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Piers Linney, co-founder and CEO of cloud services and unified communications company Outsourcery, believes that it will take the cloud between five and 10 years to fully mature. In an interview with Computing, the entrepreneur, who has ...
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IBM has been awarded a contract worth up to $1 billion to transform the US Department of the Interior's IT as part of a major cloud computing initiative. The DOI is aiming to move its data and applications into the cloud as part of a ...
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FLSmidth has received orders from two Brazilian cement producers, comprising a new 3300tpd line and a OK-33 vertical roller mill. The new kiln line is for Companhia De Cimento Da Paraíba s Pitimbu Plant, in Brazil's Paraiba state. ...
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HP would put up a fight for its customers' data if the US authorities came calling to access it, according to HP's privacy officer EMEA, Daniel Pradelles. The US Patriot Act enables authorities in the US to seize data if they believe it ...
The CIA has selected Amazon over IBM to build a cloud computing service for the spy agency even though IBM's proposal carried a lower price tag, according to a US government report. However the decision is under review after IBM lodged a ...
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Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
EU Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding has raised her concerns over the Prism surveillance information-sharing programme with the US Attorney General Eric Holder, who she is to meet in Dublin on Friday. In a statement on her website, ...
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William Hague has branded allegations that the UK government's electronic surveillance centre, GCHQ, has been asking the US National Security Agency for data on UK citizens "nonsense" in comments made before a promised explanation later ...
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Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011. Ryan Cleary , 21, Jake Davis, 20, ...
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LED lighting control Control characteristics of LEDs The optimum switching and dimming behaviour of LEDs makes them ideal for integration in ...
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A GLOBAL rights group has launched a campaign to ban Terminator-style "killer robots" amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans. Human Rights Watch said it ...
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