Levi Strauss & Co. announced that Harmit Singh will join the company as executive vice president and chief financial officer on January 16, 2013, reporting to company president and chief executive officer Chip Bergh. In this role, he ...
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The Border Agency’s pound 385m Immigration Case Work IT (ICW) project is running pound 28m over budget and one year behind schedule, the National Audit Office has said. The agency is undertaking transformation of immigration and ...
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The European Commission has announced a new strategy to speed up and increase the use of cloud computing, with the aim of creating 2.5 million new jobs and boosting GDP by €160 billion (£127bn) by 2020. The EC states that ...
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Annual IT costs for managing smartphones will soar by 48%next year compared to 2011,a new survey by Osterman Research shows. The increase is mainly due to the need for better security and management as workers bring consumer smartphones ...
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Key HMRC IT implementations have been delayed because of the Cabinet Office’s moratorium on spending, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. The report called for a better understanding of the costs of benefits of the ...
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Dell has announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed next year. The PowerEdge C8000 servers use standard Intel x86 CPUs and offer ...
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Rival soft drinks firms Britvic and AG Barr have finally agreed a merger to create a £1.5bn business,which will trade under the name Barr Britvic Soft Drinks. The new firm will be led by ceo Roger White,formerly the ceo of AG ...
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DeSL announces that elope Inc, a Colorado based wholesale company specializing in high quality whimsical wearables, has gone live with DeSL's PLM solution and is already realizing significant benefits from its recent implementation. elope ...
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Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are real and all companies should be taking them seriously, says telecommunications company AT&T. In the past year, the company has set up an IT security team dedicated to researching APTs and making ...
Over the past 17 years Studio-29 founder Tony Rimmer has transformed the lit appearance of London's prestigious Regent Street with a challenging lighting scheme adding depth and consistency to Regency thoroughfare's Grade-II listed facades. ...
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METALLOINVEST has won the PEOPLE INVESTOR 2012 corporate competition for the best regional project in the “building relations with partner and client relations” category. The Company’s project in the “personal ...
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Law firm Slaughter&May has selected information management provider Recommind's knowledge management search solution to replace its"flaky"Hummingbird document and knowledge management platform. Further reading Case study:SaaS-based ...
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As part of its ongoing commitment to improving operational efficiency and reducing environmental impact, PPL Generation continually strives to reduce costs and lower internal energy consumption by implementing high-efficiency, modern ...
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Gazprom identified Gazprom Gazomotornoye Toplivo as a special purpose company to consolidate the Group's assets related to the NGV fuel production and sales. The main business lines of the new company include devising and implementing ...
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Austrian companies in Vienna heard about the investment and trade opportunities in the Kurdistan Region, at the first business lunch to be jointly hosted by the Kurdistan Regional Government Austrian Representation and the Austrian Federal ...
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