Growth in home sales and prices is contributing to a broader improvement in the overall economy, aided in part by current homeownership tax treatment, according to presentations at a residential real estate forum during the Realtors Midyear ...
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Fresh off the?acquisition?of a company that specialises in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on?OpenStack. Dell has said for the last ...
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The Shakespeare Review into public sector data has suggested that data held across the public sector, including the National Health Service ought to be used to drive economic growth. Further reading Obama signs executive order promoting ...
The sharemarket has closed higher, led by investors picking up cheaper mining stocks after heavy selling in recent days. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 15.1 points, or 0.29 per cent, at 5180.8. The broader All ...
US-based frozen food manufacturer Bellisio Foods has agreed to acquire Overhill Farms in an all-cash merger deal valued at approximately $80.9m. Overhill Farms is a supplier of custom prepared frozen foods for branded retail, private ...
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Data-center and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe. Cisco is aiming to become ...
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Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to ...
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THE sharemarket finished lower as weaker commodity prices weighed on the nation's biggest mining stocks. At 4.15pm AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 26 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 5165.7 points, while the broader All ...
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US-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners is planning to merge two of its portfolio companies – Hearthside Food Solutions and Ryt-way Industries, a move which will create a leading contract food manufacturer in North America, ...
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While the rail industry did not find the budget entirely positive, there are many good points for rail in the Budget. ARA: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown The 2013 Federal Budget has delivered largely positive outcomes for commuters, ...
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems, has opened a sales and R&D office ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, Moscow Sales
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began debate on more than 300 amendments to the comprehensive immigration bill, including a number of changes to sections on H-1B visas. The debate put focus on sharp divisions that appear to pit ...
Google has introduced an integrated developer environment (IDE) aimed at easing development of Android apps. Android Studio made its debut Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Android developers could use the Android ...
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The 2013 Budget has been hailed as "sound" for the IT industry but could have been better if certain measures were employed earlier, analysts say. "It's quite a sound budget from an IT perspective," Ovum Australia research director Kevin ...
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May 13, 2013 - This year marks Sonepar’s third edition of Energy Saving Week (ESW). Calling it a “global movement with local applications”, Energy Saving & Environmental Week—which runs May 13 to 17—is ...