The Silvercrest factory in the Irish Republic that sold burgers contaminated with horse DNA to Tesco, Burger King and the Co-operative Group, has been sold by its parent company ABP Food Group to Kepak Group. ABP has sold its Silvercrest ...
Tags: ABP, Agriculture, Food
Apple's iPhone devices are about "fashion rather than functionality", and BlackBerry devices are better tailored for the enterprise, according to law firm DWF's CTO, Richard Hodkinson. Hodkinson told Computing that the firm has many agile ...
Tags: iPhones, Computer Products
The UK Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether in-app payments on smartphones and tablet computers are illegally encouraging children to spend money. The investigation follows several recent cases in which children have spent ...
Tags: smartphones, tablet computers
Yorkshire-based R&R Ice Cream has acquired the Lancashire family-owned ice cream maker Fredericks Dairies in a 49M deal. R&R Ice Cream has acquired Fredericks Dairies, which makes ice creams and iced refreshment for brands such as Cadbury ...
Tags: ice creams, iced refreshment
US oil, natural gas and coal industries are bracing for the release of new standards that could derail, postpone or at least create new legal hurdles for some of the country's largest planned energy projects, including interstate pipelines, ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil
The US government is to introduce a "cyber espionage review" process into future purchases of IT after the measures were passed in a new funding law signed this week by President Obama. It follows reports in the press since the beginning ...
Tags: Cyber Espionage Review, IT, policy
The European Commission has pledged to crack down on unfair trade practices by e-commerce sites across the European Union. The promise comes five years after the European Union's first Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which had been ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
CPA Global, an intellectual property (IP) management and software specialist, has opened a new office in Silicon Valley, to help meet the massive demand for IP management services in the region and to enable the company to better serve its ...
Tags: software, Consumer Electronics
Listed companies have been warned to upgrade their disclosure practices in light of new rules from the Australian Securities Exchange or risk enforcement action from the corporate regulator. The Australian Securities & Investment ...
U.S. government agencies will need the help of companies while developing a set of cybersecurity standards that President Obama has called for in an executive order signed last month, administration officials said. The Obama ...
VODAFONE could potentially face "tens-of-millions" of dollars in compensation claims from disgruntled customers as part of a class action suit. The law firm has only just launched its bid to formally recruit customers for the class action ...
Tags: VODAFONE, recruit customers
Last year was packed with surprises for the food and drink manufacturing sector, according to business guru Paul Wilkinson. Paul Wilkinson reviewed a year of food and drink manufacturing surprises Here we capture the highlights of his ...
This is one of the sadder stories we’ve covered in this space. Earlier this year, a man shot three people in an office park in Phoenix, Arizona. One victim, Steven Singer, president and CEO of call center company Fusion Contact ...
Tags: Office Furniture, safety, furniture
Workplace administration tasks are a drain on employee productivity and impacting employee work/life balance, according to a new study from Canon Business Australia. Canon’s ‘Automate My Admin’ study found that workplace ...
Tags: Canon Business Services, Canon Business, office administration
Attorneys from a Florida-based law firm have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit in federal court on behalf of music legend Chubby Checker, best known for his hit record, "The Twist." The lawsuit was filed today against Hewlett Packard ...