Howrad Stringer, who fought to bring a divided and struggling Sony together as the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's first foreign president, is retiring as chairman in June. He announced his departure in New York in a ...
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Could anonymous chat be the next big thing? At this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the place that helped put Twitter and FourSquare on the map, a fledgling app for anonymous chatting is gaining some traction. GhostPost is giving ...
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Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 is a video compression technology ...
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The first ever British Bike Championship series for toddlers will take place this year. Balance bike supplier Strider has organised the events due to the "growth of interest in balance bike riding and racing in the UK last year". It has ...
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Visitors will be invited to experience a ‘day in the life’ of Saint-Gobain products, systems and technologies at Ecobuild 2013 on stand N310. The 225m² stand is designed to show how products and systems from the ...
UK retailer Primark announces full year 2012 results -Revenue £3,503m (2011, £3,043m) -Adjusted operating profit £356m (2011, £309m) -Adjusted operating profit margin 10.2% (2011, 10.2%) -Return on average ...
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Electrical Business has just learned Electricity Human Resources Canada (EHRC, formerly Electricity Sector Council [ESC]) is conducting its 2013 Conference and Inaugural Awards Gala at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto, Ont., November ...
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Coca-Cola and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are joining forces in a new campaign to help protect the polar bear's Arctic home. For the first time, Coca-Cola is turning its iconic red cans white in celebration of the polar bear and committing up ...
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Qt developers are now able to migrate applications to the new BlackBerry 10 platform, says Digia. This is because the BlackBerry 10 platform uses the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework on top of a C/C++ foundation for ...
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The projects, which will be piloted in Scotland, offer people a range of incentives, such as money back, discount vouchers or vouchers for donations to charities, for recycling glass, aluminium and plastic (PET) drinks containers. The aim ...
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Yahoo! has a new look online following a makeover engineered by its chief executive Marissa Mayer. The long-awaited makeover of Yahoo.com's home page is the most notable change to the website since the internet company hired Marissa ...
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BLACKWOOD, NJ, February 19, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- This spring, SWDTech will begin development on its first of many retro Role-Playing Games (RPGs) sure to interest and inspire casual and hardcore gamers alike. Pixel Noir is a retro, ...
The Bra Recyclers have partnered with Tucson Clean & Beautiful, Inc to encourage students, educators and community groups to recycle old items into art. The Re-Used Materials Becoming Art (RUMBA) showcase and competition will take place at ...
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Samsung has revealed a plan to set up an innovation centre in Menlo Park, California which will be used for research projects. The company has also also launched a $100m Catalyst Fund which will focus on research projects and businesses ...
Broadcast live on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards opened with the Taittinger Moment Champagne red carpet toast. Vitalie Taittinger, Global Ambassador and Artistic Director of the historic Champagne house, ...
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