A new European guide aimed at avoiding IT vendor lock-in could save the public sector more than$1.3 billion a year. The policy,announced by the European Commission Tuesday,involves using open standards rather than vendor-specific ...
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Concerns about the global economy and political unrest in Canberra are cruelling appetite for takeovers, with some of the nation's top dealmakers tipping companies to remain on the sidelines until economic clouds clear. In a sign of the ...
The $1.6 billion redevelopment of the Port of Melbourne has attracted a high-calibre list of civil and maritime construction specialists competing for two significant work packages. Port of Melbourne Corporation chief executive officer ...
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Installers from Josloff Glass working on the Terminal B Modernization at Newark International Airport. Photos by Ari Mintz Photography, www.arimintzphoto.com.2012 was another year of improvement for U.S contract glazing firms, with more ...
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Norfolk County Council is seeking bidders for an IT framework that could be worth up to £100m. The council is seeking an agreement with a single operator for a duration that "exceeds four years". In the Official Journal of the ...
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Norfolk County Council is seeking bidders for an IT framework that could be worth up to £100m. The council is seeking an agreement with a single operator for a duration that "exceeds four years". Further reading Wolverhampton ...
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UK meat firm Cranswick is likely to reap strategic benefit from the merger of China’s largest meat processor and pig producer, Shuanghui International, with the world’s largest pork processor North America’s Smithfield ...
Dell has written to shareholders they are better off accepting a bid from Michael Dell and Silver Lake to acquire the company than holding on to their shares. The company's independent directors have unanimously agreed to recommend the ...
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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 ...
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Netherlands-based financial conglomerate ING has received offers for its South Korean life insurance business from a Korean life insurer and two Seoul-based private-equity firms. The three bidders include Kyobo Life Insurance Co and ...
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The city of Huntington Park, California, is seeking bids from qualified firms to supply Cobrahead style LED streetlights for an upcoming streetlight replacement initiative. The project will replace existing high pressure sodium (HPS) ...
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NHS Wales expects to save £1m per year once it has gone live with document management solutions from software provider V1, as well as a range of e-trading solutions across the health service. Further reading Caldicott review: ...
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An anonymous bidder paid $US610,000 ($617,000) in a charity auction for coffee date with Apple chief Tim Cook, the organisers said. The Tim Cook auction tied the record for highest winning bid at charity auction site Charitybuzz, ...
US House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled two new bills aimed at opening more federal lands to oil and natural gas drilling and reforming federal lease sales. The Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act, (H.R. 1965), which was ...
A meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook has been auctioned off for charity The chance to meet Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, has been auctioned off for £395,000, with proceeds going to Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The ...