Nike Inc. reported financial results for its fiscal 2013 first quarter ended August 31, 2012. Strong demand for Nike, Inc. brands propelled first quarter revenue to new record highs. As expected, diluted earnings per share were lower due to ...
Tags: Nike, Mark Parker, diluted earnings per share, gross margin
Specialty athletic retailer City Sports announced that it has named Edward Albertian as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. "I'm delighted to join the strong management team and dedicated employees of City Sports as we ...
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The festive season has lost some of its sparkle for retailers,with growth in sales on the high street slowing in December,the CBI said. Responding to the CBI's latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey during the first two weeks of ...
Tags: Clothing Sales, Grow, slow
Ericsson has unveiled a Wi-Fi access point and controller for offloading cellular traffic in densely populated areas such as stadiums. Its goal is to allow users to switch seamlessly from the cellular network to a local Wi-Fi network to ...
Tags: Ericsson, offloading cellular traffic, densely populated areas
Sprint Nextel's proposed buyout of network partner Clearwire may be inevitable, and it could help Sprint keep its signature unlimited mobile data plans alive. The fourth-largest U.S. mobile operator is in talks with Clearwire, which ...
IDG News Service - Brand-new laptop and desktop computers sold in China contain preinstalled malicious software, which has infected millions of computers around the world, according to an investigation by Microsoft revealed on Thursday. ...
There is set to be as many as 300,000 more households in fuel poverty this Christmas than was the case last year,according to a government advisory group. The Fuel Poverty Advisory Group has called on the prime minister David Cameron to ...
Tags: fuel poverty, Energy Efficient Lighting, Energy prices
Li Ning Company Limited, one of the leading sports brand companies in China, announced that as part of its broader transformation plan disclosed in July this year, its Board of Directors has approved the management's proposal to launch a ...
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Embattled satellite carrier LightSquared proposed on Friday that the government let it share spectrum with federal uses such as weather balloons so it can get enough spectrum to launch its proposed national LTE mobile network. ...
Tags: LightSquared, LTE mobile network, spectrum
Insurance broker R K Harrison has teamed up with Stroz Friedberg, a global digital risk management firm, to offer complimentary pre-incident consulting services for clients purchasing cyber liability policies through R K Harrison. Apart ...
Many of us have known that currently China is the largest furniture exporting country. For example in last 2009 the export of China furniture reached to almost 26 billion USD. No wonder that around 30% furniture of the world is manufactured ...
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The financial services industry is undergoing massive change. The global economic crisis, on-going Eurozone challenges and well publicised banking scandals have left the sector with a severely tarnished reputation and under real scrutiny. ...
Tags: financial service, economic crisis, Eurozone challenge, banking scandal
Farm & General Insurance Consultants, a specialist agricultural and horticultural insurance provider, has selected Transactor Global Solutions Ltd (TGSL) as its new software supplier. Products to be delivered include branded B2B & B2C ...
Tags: Farm and General Insurance, insurance, agricultural insurance
Age UK has teamed up with Cognatel MVNO CyCell to develop a no-frills mobile phone for the elderly. According to research by Ofcom, over half (52%) of people aged 75 plus own a mobile phone, but these devices are often relegated to a ...
Tags: Elderly, mobile, mobile device, My Phone, smartphone
Mobile operators in the UK are not known for being the best of friends. Be it fighting for the latest exclusive handset or threatening court action over 4G rollouts, the big guns have never been at the top of each other's Christmas lists. ...