Foundry Group has become the lead investor in a$6.5m Series B investment in Betabrand Corporation.Located in San Francisco,CA,Betabrand is an online clothing company that creates unique clothing that appeals to an individual's sense of ...
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IDG News Service-Nokia plans an ambitious expansion of its mapping and location-based services platform beyond its own smartphones to competing devices running OSes other than Windows Phone 8,it said Tuesday. The move is being backed with ...
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Lonely Planet Guide Reveals Its Best for 2013 Lonely Planet's eighth eagerly-awaited annual collection of the best places to go has named Hobart and Christchurch as two of the world's top cities for next year in 2013. Other cities to ...
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The"Calendrier De La Mode"project pays homage to the 1945 traveling exhibition"Theatre De La Mode",which featured two hundred small fashion mannequins,all dressed by top Parisian couturiers. Following an 18th century custom of presenting ...
Once the lonely crusade of astronomers, the dark-sky movement is finding increasingly vocal support in the lighting community; and is gaining regulatory traction with the sustainability and conservation movements. Plants and animals, ...
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Sony said Thursday that the executive in charge of its online products,and linking them up to its broad hardware holdings,will leave the company at the end of the year. The Tokyo-based electronics giant said Tim Schaaff,who it poached ...
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This holiday season,Gap's new global marketing campaign,"Love Comes In Every Shade,"celebrates the colorful,optimistic holiday product Gap is known for and illustrates some of the many forms of love,from puppy love and married love to best ...
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Ariosa Diagnostics will present its non-invasive prenatal test's clinical data at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting being held in San Francisco, California, US, from 6 - 11 November 2012. The non-invasive test, ...
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As part of its Gateway program, the DOE has evaluated the use of LED retrofit kits or luminaires to replace the existing lights on the Golden Gate Bridge, without altering the historic character of the installation. ...
Just as the right choice of wallpapers, fabrics and curtains can help make a house a home, so too can the smart use of lighting add that little bit extra comfort and personality to a property, no matter how big or small. Coming as ...
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BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- Case goods manufacturer Standard Furniture has named Myron Woody as director of quality assurance for both Standard and its IFM import division. He replaces Tommy Turk, who was promoted to plant manager for Standard's ...
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Oracle has launched a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)offering,a new private cloud product,an updated database and a new iteration of its Exadata server at Oracle World in San Francisco today. Further reading Case Study:Twitter's ...
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UNIQLO, the global clothing retailer, is thrilled to announce that the highly anticipated online shopping site is now live to customers and fans throughout the U.S. Just in time for the 2012 holiday season, UNIQLO's full line of signature ...
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IDG News Service-A San Francisco court will hear arguments next month against a proposed US$22.5 million privacy settlement between Google and the U.S.Federal Trade Commission,over Google's use of cookies to track the Web movements of users ...
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Mulberry Group plc,the English luxury brand,is updating the market on trading for the six months to 30 September 2012. Highlights: Total revenue of£76.5m,up 6% Retail revenue of£46.5m,up 13%and up 7%like-for-like ...
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