Agricultural nutrients maker Agrium Inc. (AGU, AGU.TO) Tuesday said that Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC has recommended that its clients vote for all 12 of Agrium's director nominees using only the white proxy. Glass Lewis is a leading ...
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The Australian dollar fell sharply today after China announced a tightening of controls on high-yielding financial products that form a key part of the country's shadow-banking system. Traders said the announcement highlighted risks that ...
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Moody’s Analytics has introduced the B&H Economic Capital Calculator to its Capital Modelling Framework. The B&H Economic Capital Calculator features enterprise technology and is aimed to help process large data volumes associated ...
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Dell on Monday said it had signed a confidentiality agreement with investor Carl Icahn, who has vocally opposed the company's proposed plan to be acquired for $24.4 billion in a leveraged buyout. In a brief statement, Icahn Enterprises ...
On Monday, Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based service center Metals USA Holdings Corp. announced the expiration of the 30 day go-shop period as part of the merger agreement between Metals USA and Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. Pursuant to the ...
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Faster Web browsing and lower data use might be on the cards for Android mobile phone users if they download a new version of the Chrome Web browser offered by Google. The latest Chrome Beta for Android, which was made available on ...
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Prices are falling and the number of services is increasing as developers in the online underground compete fiercely for criminals looking to purchase botnets and other tools to mount cyber attacks. The trends in the so-called ...
Apple's annual shareholder meeting held at Apple headquarters in Cupertino California on Wednesday. Apple All directors were re-elected at the shareholders' general meeting. Apple CEO Tim Cook • voting rate reached 99.1%. In ...
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The number of exclusive agencies at Allstate Corp. is down. In a document filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Allstate said it has about 9,300 exclusive agencies. That's down from about 10,000 in 2011. But it ...
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More than 1,500 credentials for PayPal accounts are on sale in an eShop-style website set up by cybercriminals. The site, discovered by Webroot's Danco Danchev, is selling 1,543 PayPal account details, 14 of which belong to UK customers ...
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IDG News Service - The growing number of shareholders voicing opposition to Dell's US$24.4 billion plan to go private appears to be putting the company increasingly on the defensive, raising questions about the terms of the deal. This is ...
Questions are being raised about the terms of Dell’s $24.4 billion buyout deal, as the number of shareholders voicing opposition to the plan appears to be growing. Dell is now increasingly on the defensive. This is not good news ...
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A faulty antivirus update issued by Kaspersky Lab on Monday left many of its home and business customers unable to access any websites on their computers. Systems administrators using Kaspersky Endpoint Security (KES) on their corporate ...
DayStar Technologies Inc (DSTI) of Kelowna, BC, Canada, which was founded in California in 1998 to make copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, says that it is negotiating the potential sale of its CIGS solar ...
Michael Dell might be celebrating having agreed a buyout for his company, but $24.4 billion leveraged deal has seen a backlash, with one of the company’s largest shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, planning to oppose the ...
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