NEW YORK -- Two days after a devastating Hurricane Sandy came ashore in New Jersey and wreaked havoc across greater New York, furniture retailers in the area were reporting store closing disruptions, but no serious damage. However, those ...
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NEW YORK -- A number of furniture retailers caught in the path of a devastating Hurricane Sandy are reporting store closings in New York and New Jersey, but initially no major damage. Manchester, Conn.-based Bob's Discount Furniture ...
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While the risk of being hacked,conned or having sensitive information stolen is possible all through the year,most security experts agree that the holiday season brings a spike in fraudulent activity,both online and off. CSO compiled a ...
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Food manufacturers in the US,including Hershey and Nestle,have kept sites closed after Hurricane Sandy hit the east of the country last night. Confectionery giant Hershey confirmed to just-food its facilities in Pennsylvania remained shut ...
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American manufacturing companies are marching on Moscow. At a time when tepid growth at home, a slowing Chinese economy and recession in much of Western Europe is dogging Corporate America, Russia is getting newfound attention as a growth ...
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The torrents of data produced by social networks, sensors, supply chains and every imaginable device are creating new jobs. Gartner estimated this week that big data will create 1.9 million new jobs in the U.S. through 2015. Michael Rappa ...
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Insurance company NFU Mutual is to automate its paper-based claims handling using business process management tools from Tibco. The multimillion pound project will help the rural insurer streamline its claims-management processes across ...
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Quarterly Revenue increased 17% year-over-year to a record $316 million; Quarterly Net Income increased 26% year-over-year to $16.1 million Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, today announced revenue of $315.8 ...
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Computerworld-If there's a brush fire or earthquake in California's Ventura County,city officials could be getting critical information from Twitter and residents could be receiving warnings on their smartphones. For emergency ...
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LAS VEGAS--SAS Institute this week unveiled tools it says makes it easier for its enterprise customers to use the company's business analytics software to analyze data stored in Hadoop environments. At its Premier Business Leadership ...
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At a launch event for the school's new wireless technology research center,MIT PhD student Swarun Kumar presented technology for a new autonomous vehicle that recognizes when it may be in danger of striking other cars and pedestrians. ...
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UK targeted attacks have gone from four a year to 500 a day in just two years, according to Misha Glenny, security author and journalist. "But it is not just big corporations that are being targeted, attackers are going after everyone in ...
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Patterson Pump Co will provide pumps to a joint venture construction group for a flood control project in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Permanent Canal Closure and Pumps (PCCP) project, which is funded and administered by the US Army Corps of ...
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For its first fiscal-quarter 2013 (to 29 September 2012), optical communications and laser component, module and subsystem maker Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA has reported preliminary revenue of about $149m, below the low end of its ...
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In the US, much of the legislation that was written in 2007 which would make the incandescent obsolete because they do not meet the energy efficiency standards was recently overturned in December 2011. What's left is efficiency standards ...