Booths, the 160-year-old North-West-based supermarket chain, is abolishing paper receipts for holders of its new Booths Card and instead will store them in their personal accounts online. The receipts can be accessed online and via web ...
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The creator of popular open-source database MySQL, Michael "Monty" Widenius, wants to see the now-Oracle-owned product disappear from the earth within the next five years" - displaced by his own alternative, MariaDB. Speaking to Computing ...
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Google is reportedly squaring up to Facebook in a $1bn (£660m) bidding war for Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze. According to Bloomberg, the internet giant has expressed an interest in buying up the start-up ...
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Focus Media Holding Limited (NASDAQ: FMCN) announced today that it has been combined with Giovanna Acquisition Limited (hereinafter Merger Sub) according to a merger plan issued on December 19, 2012. Thus Focus Media has become a ...
Far Eastern food firms could snap up UK crisp brand Tyrrells, which is reportedly up for sale for £100M. Tyrrells is up for sale for £100M Food industry commentator Julian Wild, of legal firm Rollits, told ...
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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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Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is ...
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A battle for US computer giant Dell has heated up as corporate raider Carl Icahn and other investors made a new offer and called a planned buyout led by company founder Michael Dell a "giveaway". The investor group, which holds around 13 ...
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Shares in US book retailer Barnes & Noble closed more than 24 per cent higher in New York yesterday following a report that Microsoft is to buy the digital assets of Nook Media, its ebook and tablet business, for $1bn (£650m). ...
The Dell buyout saga continues apace, with activist investor Carl Icahn teaming up with Southeastern Asset Management to provide yet another alternative to founder Michael Dell's $24.4bn (£15.9bn) offer to buy back his company. In a ...
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DELL has acquired cloud software firm Enstratius as part of the computer maker's efforts to diversify and reduce its dependence on the slow-growing PC segment. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The announcement comes with Dell ...
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As part of Microsoft's loan of $2 billion to a group trying to buy PC maker Dell, the two companies must modify the payment terms of Dell's current agreements with Microsoft, a document filed with U.S. regulators said. CEO and founder ...
Sprint Nextel's network partner Clearwire hasn't been able to find any other big wholesale customers nor sell any of its spectrum, so selling out to Sprint is the only real option for its shareholders, the company said Monday. A letter ...
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The merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS cleared its last major hurdle on Wednesday as MetroPCS shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal. The merger, first proposed last October, had faced opposition from some large shareholders until ...
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Bob Combs has been playing with Las Vegas house money for 50 years. Every day, his 2,500 pigs eat the finest fare from the famed casinos of Sin City. Granted, it’s stirred into a pungent concoction that only a hog could love, but all ...
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