Agostino Renna started his new role this week GE Lighting has promoted Agostino Renna to the role of president and CEO of the EMEA region. Effective from 2 January, Renna succeeds Phil Marshall who has held the position since 2008. The ...
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It was a jittery session for stocks, with shares falling more than 1 percent after Senate Majority Harry Reid warned a deal was unlikely before the deadline, only to rebound merely on the news that the House would reconvene Sunday, ...
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December 31, 2012 - Saft has been selected by Cowessess First Nation (CFN) to design, produce and install a Battery Energy Storage System, including two Intensium Max 20E Lithium-Ion battery containers, as part of the High Wind and Storage ...
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This ad is part of Universal Furniture’s digital promotion of the sweepstakes that includes a trip to Aruba and a five-piece Better Homes and Gardens bedroom. HIGH POINT — Universal Furniture has launched an online promotion ...
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Design For Asia Award 2012 honors Arcitone spot Royal Philips Electronics has received four prizes at the Design For Asia Award (DFA) 2012 in the category Product/Industrial design. Design For Asia recognizes companies and designers ...
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Dangote Cement plans to construct a cement plant in Pout, Senegal. The plant, which will be built on an area covering 700 hectares, will initially have a cement production capacity of 1.5 million t, with plans to increase capacity to 5 ...
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CSO - Like all malls in the United States, the Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento is being overrun with shoppers as the holiday season kicks into high gear. Arden Fair is a 77-acre property and has 10 million annual shoppers. On an average ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will speed up the release cadence of Windows, starting in 2013, to issue annual OS upgrades, according to reports on the Web today. But analysts believe that the new pace will be both difficult for Microsoft to ...
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Computerworld - Despite calls for Facebook to stop planned changes to the way it makes privacy policy, analysts are divided over whether the changes would be bad for users. Last week, Facebook announced that it's making an adjustment to ...
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IDG News Service - SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, which said that a handful of customers had received substantial discounts on their software maintenance renewals. "We recently spent ...
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Infoworld - After two years and 18 releases, Google this week took the beta label off mod_pagespeed, its Web page speed technology. Mod_pagespeed is an open source Apache module in use at more than 120,000 sites, Joshua Marantz and Ilya ...
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Computerworld - Research in Motion Wednesday released a BlackBerry PlayBook OS update that adds full device encryption to secure personal data stored on the device to go along with the already-available encryption for corporate data. The ...
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IDG News Service - Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday that its chief financial officer, Thomas Seifert, has resigned from his post and that a hunt is on for his replacement. AMD has appointed Devinder Kumar, senior vice president and ...
IDG News Service - Microsoft has announced the consumer and small-business prices for the new Office suite, which will be sold both via traditional single-device, perpetual licenses and via a new annual, multi-device cloud subscription. ...
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IDG News Service - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS Communications have signed an agreement to merge in a deal that will see MetroPCS shareholders receive US$1.5 billion in cash and 26 percent of the new company. The combined ...
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