Walmart will convene approximately 1,500 people, including representatives from more than 500 supplier companies, 32 states, major retail industry leaders and other retailers, at its U.S. Manufacturing Summit. According to a press release, ...
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Design Center at the Merchandise Mart and Luxe Interiors + Design magazine will present the third annual Interior Designer of the Year Award on Thursday, February 6, 2014. This premier Chicago design event recognizes and honors interior ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The latest ICAC survey on the cost of cotton production indicates that weed control is becoming increasingly expensive. Weed control costs include manual/mechanical weeding, thinning (also supplement weeding), hoeing and herbicide use. ...
Tags: Cotton Farming, Textile
Lenovo will open its Reach consumer cloud service beta to anyone who wants to sign up later this quarter in North America, which could boost the Chinese company's hardware sales by tying that portfolio to the cloud service. A date for ...
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Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia chose Windows Phone over Google's Android operating system for its smartphones, so that it could entice mobile carriers with a "third alternative", according to Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop. At ...
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If you are in the market for a new home, youâEUR(TM)ll want to shop as carefully for your homebuilder as you did for your home. It doesnâEUR(TM)t matter whether youâEUR(TM)re going to build a condo, home, or townhouse; ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Service
Global insurance broking and risk management firm Marsh has completed the acquisition of Alexander Forbes' stake in Nigerian insurance broker Femi Johnson & Company (FJC). Marsh intends to merge the newly-acquired business with its ...
The Roof Coatings Manufacturers Association (RCMA), a national trade association representing manufacturers of cold applied protective roof coatings and cements and suppliers of products, is hosting a webinar on volatile organic compound ...
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Lotus F1 has announced a four-year partnership with IT services and solutions provider EMC that the team hopes will help lead it to the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The deal will see EMC aid Lotus with more agile and cost-efficient ...
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Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud. The graphics ...
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Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processors than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics capabilities, so they could be alternatives to traditional PCs as computing continues moving ...
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Around the world, companies are redefining the role of their headquarters, which includes turning corporate centers into key drivers of operations. Furthermore, they are increasingly assuming functions that go beyond representation, ...
Electricity is one of the necessities people cannot live without. Due to risen energy consumption over the past decades, it has become necessary to look into new ways of generating electricity. Traditionally, electricity has been produced ...
The wealth of personal data that mobile apps collect on their users needs to be conspicuously stated to consumers or developers could face legal heat, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris said Wednesday. Rather than resorting to ...
Tags: App Developers, mobile apps
Clariant has announced its new EcoTain approach to sustainable innovation. The EcoTain life cycle and label developed by Clariant is driven by the commitment to protect human, environmental and ecological health without compromising on ...