Microsoft on Tuesday announced that its BUILD 2013 developers conference will be held June 26-28 on Apple's home turf, San Francisco's Moscone Center. Apple has hosted its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Moscone since 2003, and ...
PPR has changed its name to Kering. The name change will be subject to the approval of the General Meeting of Shareholders of the Group, which will be held June 18, 2013. Since 2005, PPR has undertaken a major transformation. The new ...
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Hewlett-Packard’s shareholders have voted to re-elect its entire board of directors, despite opposition from investors who wanted some members held accountable for recent troubles at HP, including the ill-fated acquisition of ...
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Hewlett-Packard's shareholders have voted to reelect its entire board of directors, despite opposition from investors who want some members held accountable for recent troubles at HP, including its ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy. All ...
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It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features heavily in pitches for both high-speed analytics and in support of transactional ...
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Large US refiner Valero Energy sees Louisiana and California as among the destinations that will be served by its recent order of 5,320 new rail cars to move discounted inland crudes across the US, the company's chief operating officer said ...
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Oracle first announced its Social Relationship Management product family several months ago at OpenWorld, but has now taken steps to actually integrate the components of the product set, which it gained through a number of acquisitions over ...
LED lighting stretches 1.8 mi and reaches 500-ft heights in The Bay Lights project where artist Leo Villareal converted iconic San Francisco bridge into a dynamic art sculpture. The city of San Francisco, CA threw the switch on The Bay ...
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Asset advisory and auction services firm Heritage Global Partners (HGP, a subsidiary of Counsel RB Capital) and equipment auction and valuation firm The Branford Group have announced a global webcast auction of late-model silicon carbide ...
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New York — JCPenney ceo Ron Johnson took the stand this morning to testify in Macy's lawsuit over the Martha Stewart brand. For the first time, he publicly disclosed how much further staff cuts have gone since JCP announced the ...
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Microsoft will upgrade on Wednesday its existing Office 365 cloud email and collaboration suites for businesses, as well as introduce new bundles, growing even more the list of Office 365 editions, which some analysts and users had already ...
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Oracle has laid in out in detail how it intends to compete with the likes of Salesforce.com in the highly competitive arena for next-generation marketing software. The vendor spent $871 million in December to acquire marketing automation ...
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IBM is making a renewed push into the burgeoning market for all things mobile, saying it can help its corporate customers grow revenue and become more competitive through mobile app development. The effort pulls together a raft of IBM ...
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Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking Webcast: “Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking” Campaign On Thursday, February 28, Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA) will hold a webcast on the Lighting ...
Webcast on Selection of LED Streetlight Luminaires Webcast on Successful Selection of LED Streetlight Luminaires: Optimizing Illumination and Economic Performance On Wednesday, March 6, DOE’s Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting ...