Things change fast in the working world. Where private offices and cubicles were once the order of the day, now open plan spaces rule and gone are the times when the only way you could communicate with your coworkers was by actually ...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has provisionally denied Apple's trademark application for "iPad Mini" because the term is "merely descriptive" of the tablet's size. Notice of the rejection was mailed to Apple on Jan. 25, but ...
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US-based poultry firm Allen Harim is in talks to acquire former Pinnacle Foods (Vlasic) processing facility in Millsboro, Delaware, US with an investment of about $100m. The 460,000ft2 remodeled facility would employ 700 people and will ...
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The new office and sales team in the UK will be led by regional sales director Mark Aubrey who has extensive experience and knowledge in the cartonboard market. The office will be located in Nottingham and will be fully operational as of ...
Sin Tax Reform 2012 has allowed alcoholic beverages and tobacco to become the highest consumer price index (CPI) products in Philippines, according to the report ‘February 2013 Regional Price Situationer’ by National Statistics ...
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Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp began operations at its new coal trading desk in Singapore Monday as part of a wider restructuring of its commodities trading businesses, market sources said Tuesday. The Japanese trading house ...
Canadian mutual insurance firm Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company has chosen Guidewire’s PolicyCenter and BillingCenter as its new underwriting and policy administration technology and to manage its billing operations, respectively. ...
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Microsoft earlier this week quietly issued its first security update for one of its Windows 8 apps, patching a link-spoofing vulnerability in Mail. Two weeks ago, Microsoft spelled out plans for updating its own "Modern" apps, the flat UI ...
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On April 2, Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, reported that in February this year the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the European Union member states (EU-27) was 10.9 percent, up from 10.8 percent in ...
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Berlin Packaging, which supplies plastic, glass and metal containers and closures, is opening a 40,000-square-foot warehouse in Miramar. Driven by growth in the South Florida market, the space will enable same-day shipping to most of ...
Microsoft today launched a searchable list of its complete patent portfolio as part of its defense of the patent system, particularly software patents. The list is currently composed of nearly 41,000 U.S. and international patents ...
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Daiichi Sankyo Company has opened the Orphan Disease Treatment Institute office inside the Daiichi Sankyo Shinagawa R&D center. Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, a fund managed by Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, and Daiichi Sankyo have ...
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APPLE'S ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental encounters. Facebook, while ...
ARE you confident about working on a notebook that stores your documents straight to the cloud? Are you happy to forgo Microsoft and Apple applications you have used for years, such as Photoshop, Microsoft Word and Excel, and Apple's iWorks ...
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THE US Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple's application for a trademark to safeguard its popular iPad mini tablet, saying the case to own the phrase was too weak. Apple, however, has until July 24 to better explain how the ...
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