American food company Heinz has announced that it has received all regulatory approvals to sell itself to the investment consortium comprised of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and private equity firm 3G Capital. The transaction, ...
Tags: Heinz, Regulatory Approvals
When Larry Goodwin was stung to death by thousands of Africanized honey bees on June 1, the story had a near-fiction quality for many Americans. Goodwin, 62 years old, who farmed near Waco, Texas, was killed when he disturbed a hive while ...
US internet retailer Amazon is opening a central London office, bringing 1,600 jobs to the capital. Amazon will move several hundred existing employees from the company's current offices in Slough to the new 12-storey, 210,000 sq ft ...
Tags: UK, Amazon, Computer Products
Unless you work at Yahoo, where CEO Marissa Mayer has banned telecommuting, there's a good chance you work from home or at a coffee shop once in a while. That's according to Forrester Research, which found some big changes in the way we ...
Tags: IT, Yahoo, Telecommuting
Sportlifestyle company PUMA has appointed Andy Koehler (56) as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective 1 June 2013. Koehler, who succeeds former COO Klaus Bauer, will be part of PUMA's Managing Director team around PUMA's future CEO ...
jcpenney announced that it is joining forces with INROADS, the nation's largest non-profit source of undergraduate internships for diverse youth, to bolster its emerging talent leadership program. Through the partnership, INROADS interns ...
Tags: Apparel
An Australian-UK consortium is offering a epitaxial silicon carbide buffer layer for 300mm silicon wafers, claiming it will improve gallium nitride growth for GaN-on-Si LED fabrication. The buffer is the result of over 10 years research ...
Microsoft will have another shot at tempting businesses to try Windows 8 after it rolls out the "Blue" update later this year, analysts said Thursday. Windows 8.1, as the free update has been branded, will ship as a preview on June 26, ...
Tags: Windows 8, Enterprise, Microsoft
Wolverhampton City Council has announced it will save £3.4m over the next two years by selecting UNIT 4's Agresso Local Government ERP platform. Underpinning the council's five-year "FutureWorks" modernisation programme - which is ...
Tags: Computer Products, Wolverhampton, Agresso Erp Solution
Gift cards, vouchers and alternative payment methods on the increase. UK shoppers did 9.7 per cent less of their shopping with cash in 2012 compared to the previous year. Paying with cash is still the most popular choice for customers ...
Soleus, a major supplier of sports watches to the running and fitness market, is entering the bike world with a GPS-enabled bike computer that will retail for $99. Soleus' parent company,?ADAO Global, has made sports watches for Nike, ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, sports watches
Andrea Martinez-Inchausti, assistant food director, British Retail Consortium Yes. While the BRC supports aims to update and simplify food labelling legislation, the new provisions introducing a minimum font size complicate matters. Many ...
The Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Facility (QMF) of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia and its industry partner, plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK, have ...
Tags: Silicon, Micro and Nanotechnology
Seven extremely talented and respected Australian aborigines, belonging to the indigenous Wiradjuri group, have recently attended an innovative custom-made textile training workshop in Melbourne. Held at the Kangan Institute’s ...
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is pleased to announce that more than 30 of the world’s most respected companies, ranging from banks and retail corporations to architecture firms and technology companies, are showing their ...
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