Concerns about the increased cost of compliance with privacy regulations influenced Google's decision to shut down Google Reader from July. According to an anonymous source speaking to AllThingsD, Google is attempting to better manage how ...
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Glass brings beauty to us; it is an indispensible material in our life, a senior official of the International Commission on Glass (ICG) said in an exclusive interview with China Daily. China is currently the world leader in float glass ...
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The European Commission is deciding whether to launch an anti-trust investigation into Apple's contracts with European mobile phone operators. Concerns have been raised by a group of European telecommunications operators, but no formal ...
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Microsoft launched a Windows 8 app-for-cash promotion this week because growth of the company's app store has slowed this quarter, an analyst argued today. "Month-over-month growth has slowed to just 10-15%," said Sameer Singh of ...
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The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed a nonbinding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within their borders. The proposal was an amendment to a 2014 budget bill that the Senate ...
We all love our tablets and smartphones, but do our gadgets love us back? In the ergonomic sense, definitely not. It's nearly impossible to have good posture while using mobile technology. The rules we observed so religiously when we were ...
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Bottero assembles CNC in China-Bringing China’s glass and stone processing industries to the next level Bottero, the world’s leader of glass technologies today announced the China made CNC machine which is assembled at its ...
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A cloud service broker is pitching Google Apps to enterprises by playing on their fears about recent changes Microsoft's made to Office. Atlanta-based Cloud Sherpas has had success moving Google Apps for Business by focusing on two major ...
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Recently, Baosteel Development Corporation Shanghai Baotian New Building Materials Co., Ltd. issues for the first time annual environmental accounting report. With financial information data, it gives complete recording of last year's input ...
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The European Commission has pledged to crack down on unfair trade practices by e-commerce sites across the European Union. The promise comes five years after the European Union's first Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which had been ...
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Following similar disclosures from companies like Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has received from law enforcement agencies for data about its users, and the criteria it employs to ...
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A group of U.S. senators has offered a nonbinding amendment to a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution allowing states to collect sales taxes on Internet sales and end the tax-free shopping that many shoppers enjoy online. The amendment, ...
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Last week, the Rupp Report wrote about the initiative against rip-off artists, as it is called in Switzerland, or against Fats Cats, as called misleadingly in some other countries (See " The Rupp Report: Is Enough Now Enough?" ...
The Association of Industries of Haiti has become the 31st trade group to join the Textile and Apparel Alliance for TPP (TAAT), which comprises trade associations advocating strong and fair textile rules in the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...
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Furnishing a small space can be a challenge, but one that can be handled with just a little planning and information. A small space can have the same functionality as a larger one, be every bit as comfortable, and can end up looking even ...
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