Centrosolar Group AG will sell its solar glass division off, following a year of devastating financial losses. The Germany-based company has also postponed the publication of its annual report and announced the continuation of its ...
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Aon Benfield has unveiled a new weather reinsurance product, WExcess, intended to mitigate adverse weather losses for UK insurers. Developed in collaboration with reinsurer Swiss Re and weather risk management specialists CelsiusPro, the ...
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US law enforcement has announced charges against three alleged East European cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the US, including at the space agency NASA. The "alleged international ...
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Global insurer RSA has launched a new Commercial Crime Protection policy, designed to provide very broad cover for commercial businesses to mitigate the financial impact of crimes such as fraud, dishonesty or malicious acts. Offering ...
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Research into the UK outsourcing sector in 2010 found that 7.4% of the UK’s total production came from outsourcing, and about a third of that – some 38.7bn – was IT outsourcing. It is a sector that adapts to market ...
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Somerset County Council's troubled outsourcing contract with Southwest One has stalled the authority's programme of cost cuts, according to a Conservative member of its cabinet. Southwest One, a shared services venture with IBM in which ...
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After 2014, China will boast the world's largest LED epitaxy and chip production capacity base. However, China LED fabs are mainly concentrated on blue/green GaN LED manufacturing, and most of the capacity focuses on small and medium size ...
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Athletic field covers are used commonly in baseball fields and in other outdoor games where the fields have a chance being damaged by excessive rain or the due to excessive evaporation,thus drying up way too fast making the surface unfit ...
Canadian manufacturer of green packaging and tissue paper products Cascades has announced that the company will not proceed with the closure of its Norampac containerboard mill in Trenton, Ontario, as planned and announced in April 2012. ...
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Life Partners Holdings, the parent company of Life Partners, Inc. has strongly denied the allegations leveled against the firm by Texas Attorney General, acting for the State Securities Board. Texas Attorney General filed a court case ...
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Canadian manufacturer of green packaging and tissue paper products, Cascades has announced the closure of its Norampac containerboard mill in Trenton, Ontario. Negotiations for the renewal of the agreement took place from May 2011 to ...
ACE USA, the retail operations of the ACE Group, is offering ACE Construction Risk Coverage Form, designed to address the evolving risks and costs related to various types of construction projects. According to the insurer, the new ...
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U.S. cotton industry leaders met this week with senior U.S. government officials to discuss the serious financial losses accruing in all industry segments as a result of massive defaults on cotton export contracts. Industry leaders ...
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After a year in which some people called into question Research in Motion's future,the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is hoping that the much-delayed BlackBerry 10(BB10)operating system will help turn the company around. Further ...
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IDG News Service-Nextel,an upstart mobile operator formed in the 1990s that attracted a loyal following in construction and other trades,looks set to disappear after Japan's Softbank buys 70 percent of Sprint Nextel. After the closing of ...
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