China Daily reported that Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Co plans to further expand its overseas businesses and manufacture more steel products for automobile use as part of its efforts to counter the slump in the Chinese steel industry. ...
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PC World-Technology giants Google and Apple shared some holiday cheer and a little self-promotion online in the form of ads recently posted on YouTube. GoogleMobile's ad--a cheesy production that has garnered more than 125,000 ...
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Global insurance brokerage Hub International (Hub) has completed acquisition of CFR, an insurance brokerage firm in Oklahoma, for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, a new regional entity called Hub International CFR has ...
Arthur J Gallagher & Co, a US-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm has acquired Argus Benefits in Atlanta, Georgia, for an undisclosed sum. Established in 2001, Argus Benefits provides various types of employee ...
New laws coming into effect this year will ban employers from demanding access to prospective and current employee social networking accounts. Facebook had announced in March 2012 that it was receiving a "distressing increase in reports" ...
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The chairman and CEO of US retailer Safeway Inc, Steve Burd, has announced his intention to retire. Burd, who joined Safeway in 1992 as president, will step down at the company's annual stockholders meeting on 14 May. The group said it ...
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Ruukki is to initiate employer-employee negotiations concerning temporary layoffs and redundancies for financial and production-related reasons in Kalajoki,Helsinki,Peräseinäjoki and Tampere in Finland.These negotiations affect ...
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Computerworld-SAN DIEGO--In three to six months,SAP plans to ship software designed to separate business data from users'personal information on smartphones and tablets,the head of the enterprise software maker's mobility unit said on ...
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Email is a commodity,says Brett Goldstein,Chicago's CIO,and that's why he's moving it to a cloud. The Windy City said Thursday it is migrating email and desktop applications to Microsoft's cloud services for about 30,000 employees. This ...
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IDG News Service-Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database,which first became generally available last year.According to SAP,HANA ...
PPR has entered into an exclusive negotiation with Alpha Private Equity Fund 6 (’APEF 6’) for the sale of 100% of Redcats’ shares in the Cyrillus and Vertbaudet brands, which constitute Redcats’ Children and Family ...
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Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC), a California-based insurer, has signed an agreement for acquisition of Homeplace Insurance Brokers. As part of the acquisition, Homeplace's team will conduct operations under the leadership of ...
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DG News Service-The mobile device is causing just as big a change in ways of working at the beginning of this century as the internet was at the end of the last century,says Kevin Noonan,consultant with Ovum. In the early days of internet ...
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IDG News Service-Workday on Monday unveiled a new set of enhancements to its cloud-based ERP software aimed at winning business from large multinational companies. The announcement,made as Workday begins its Workday Rising user ...
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International insurance brokerage and risk management firm Arthur J Gallagher & Co has completed purchase of Florida-based Corporate Benefits Advisors (CBA) for an undisclosed amount. As part of the acquisition, CBA chief executive ...
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