Iron ore stocks on the ASX have been buoyed by the recent increase in the price of the commodity,which reached its highest level since July.The broader Australian market made small gains across the day as investor sentiment rose on ongoing ...
It's been just 60 days since Dell completed the acquisition of thin-client company Wyse, but the business unit is moving forward with plans to release new thin clients designed to work with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS. The devices ...
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Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
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Perng Fai-nan, governor of the Central Bank of China (CBC), pointed out yesterday (Dec. 19) that the CBC will stick to the “properly loose” monetary policy in the first quarter next year. He expected Taiwan’s real interest ...
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Gucci is pleased to announce its partnership with Triple Lift, a newcomer in the social advertising space, to promote Gucci's Fall/Winter 2012-13 digital campaign. Triple Lift's technology will enable consumers to pin Gucci's products ...
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First Majestic Silver Corp and Orko Silver Corp announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement (the "Arrangement Agreement") pursuant to which First Majestic has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding ...
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One month does not make a trend, but IT employment dipped last month after a long stretch of gains. Analysts can only speculate as to the reasons for the decline. It may be an indication of market volatility, a short pause in hiring, or ...
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Belgium-After initial shoot-outs involving lighting designers and a visit to the PLASA trade show in London in September,Belgium-based event production supplier Phlippo Showlights made an investment in the new Martin Professional MAC Viper ...
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After gathering analysis of targeted attack data collected between February and September this year, Trend Micro found that 91 percent of targeted attacks involved spearphishing. This finding reinforces the company’s stance that ...
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Western Digital (WD) today announced it was bringing a range of routers to the market, signalling a new direction for the company best known for its storage. The product line named My Net is WD’s first foray into the networking ...
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Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer has been finalized, less than a month after the companies announced the cash deal. Yammer will become part of Microsoft's Office Division, which is led by its president, Kurt DelBene. Yammer ...
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The strongly worded order by a California judge saying Oracle has to keep porting its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers is not the end of the nasty legal battle between the two companies, but it could have an effect on the ...
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EMC said today it has agreed to buy privately-held start-up Silver Tail Systems, a vendor of real-time web session intelligence and behavioural analysis. EMC plans to use the purchase to beef up its RSA security division in the rapidly ...
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At IBM’s Information On Demand and Business Analytics Forum, being held this week in Las Vegas, the company announced a number of new add-ons and services designed to help organisations analyse their expanding data sets more quickly. ...
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Reichle & De-Massari (R&M), the Swiss structured cabling company, has announced it will be participating at GITEX. At the event, the focus of R&M, which is one of the top 3 structured cabling vendors in the region in terms of market share, ...
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