Life and health insurance marketing group AmeriLife has purchased Arizona-based marketing organization Unkefer&Associates,which offers products for annuity and life insurance sales agents. The acquisition,which is the second similar ...
It sure is tempting: Just plug in a device and let sound waves keep bedbugs and other creepy-crawlies away, without pesticides or expensive exterminator bills. Unfortunately, those ultrasonic bug repellent devices marketed on late-night TV ...
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Hawaii and Texas Top List of 20 States and D.C. Adding Construction Jobs Since November 2011 as Delaware and New York Trail; Vermont and Louisiana Led 19 States with One-Month Gain, D.C. and Texas Lag Barely one-third of states added ...
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US-based Southwest Ice Cream Specialties is voluntarily recalling ShurFine brand Creamery Select Dulce de Leche ice cream as it may contain praline pecan ice cream, which contains wheat, soy and pecans as ingredients, which are not ...
Nord Resources Corporation which is producing copper at its Johnson Camp Mine in Arizona announced that it entered into a new copper cathode sales agreement with Red Kite Master Fund Limited for 100% of the production from the Johnson Camp ...
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IDG News Service-Is Sprint preparing a bid for prepaid wireless carrier MetroPCS?Whatever the rumors and whatever the company's plans,its chief financial officer didn't offer any clues when speaking Wednesday morning at a conference in ...
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The NRF Foundation and American Express announced the winners of their annual Aspire2Retail Intercollegiate Challenge, which is designed to increase understanding of diverse career paths in retail by engaging university students in a ...
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US-based insurance agency Neace Lukens has acquired Davis-Garvin Agency for an undisclosed amount. A major insurer in the forest products industry, Davis-Garvin operates through four satellite offices located in Macon and Valdosta, ...
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Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. "We believe Windows 8 is shaping up is as one of the company's most successful products," said Tami Reller, Microsoft's chief marketing officer and ...
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IDG News Service-An Arizona man has admitted his involvement in a May 2011 computer attack against the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment that was carried out by the now-defunct LulzSec hacker group. On Thursday,Raynaldo Rivera,20,of ...
Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...
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The construction industry shed 2.2 million workers between January 2007 and last year. So now there's an overabundance of them eager for jobs, right? Wrong. Contractors are struggling with shortages of workers as the home-building market ...
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Taylor Morrison is expanding in northeast Houston with the purchase of 22 70-ft. home sites in a new section of Eagle Springs. The lots were purchased from Newland Communities. The Grande Series will be priced from the $300,000s to ...
Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven security updates next week to patch 11 vulnerabilities, including the first that apply to Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), the company's newest browser. As it did last month, Microsoft will also ...
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Google's CEO Larry Page spoke for the first time in public in months, addressing the company's annual Zeitgeist conference in Paradise Valley, Arizona on Tuesday, a spokesman confirmed. Page has not spoken in public since June, when a ...
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