A resident of North Las Vegas, Nev., says owners of lost cell phones have repeatedly shown up at his house incorrectly demanding phones that they tracked via software to his location. Wayne Dobson, a 59-year-old retiree, told the Las ...
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United Parcel Service (UPS) and TNT Express have been informed by the European Commission (EC) that it is working on a decision to prohibit the proposed acquisition of TNT Express. The EC has raised a number of concerns about the merger, ...
Raleigh Canada Ltd. will end bike manufacturing and assembly at its facility here by the end of the year, the company announced Monday. Raleigh has made an assembled bikes there for about 30 years. About 100 workers will lose their jobs ...
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Whole Foods Market supplier United Natural Foods has said it is disappointed not to have reached a deal with the Teamsters trade union in the two groups' latest talks. Teamsters-affiliated workers remain on strike at the United Natural ...
This spring will bring job cuts for some of the 169 staff at the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) in the Western Isles, as the firm announced a review of its Stornoway harvesting and processing operations last week (January 8). The ...
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, the co-founder of popular website Reddit and the co-creator, in his teens, of the RSS syndication tool, has been found dead in his home in New York in an apparent suicide. The precocious programmer and internet activist had been due in ...
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The World Trade Organization will investigate China's quotas and tariffs on rare earth minerals following prompting from the US, EU and Japan, who allege the export restrictions are in contravention of international trade regulations. ...
Apple didn't include near field communication technology in the iPhone 5, a decision that one NFC backer said the company might come to regret. But several mobile payment experts said Apple probably made a good choice for now, given the ...
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Rice has drawn heavy fire from Republicans for remarks she made in the aftermath of a September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. "I am highly ...
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As Apple prepares to start selling its new iPad Mini,workers at a Chinese factory that manufactures the product have been enduring chemical fumes,12-hour work shifts and alleged company mismanagement as they assemble the new device. "The ...
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The government's CIO,Andy Nelson(pictured),has spelled out his future wishes for the ongoing G-Cloud project,which include a structure more like Apple's App Store,and a service contract that can be shifted easily between suppliers. ...
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Dutch meat group Vion has reaffimed that its Hall's of Broxburn processing facility will close, with none of the bids received having provided a "viable alternative". In a letter to workers earlier this month, Vion said it was still in ...
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The government's CIO, Andy Nelson (pictured), has spelled out his future wishes for the ongoing G-Cloud project, which include a structure more like Apple's App Store, and a service contract that can be shifted easily between suppliers. ...
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Kumba Iron Ore(Kumba)announces with regret that talks with a group of illegal strikers occupying the Company's Sishen Mine,to get them to leave the mine,have not been successful. As a result,they will now be notified to attend ...
Digital Lumens today announced that Ardo UK,a leading supplier of high-quality frozen fruit,vegetables and carbohydrates(potato,rice and pasta),has upgraded an 80,000-cubic-meter mobile racking cold storage facility in Kent,England to the ...
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