US based diverse financial holding company Markel has inked a definitive agreement to acquire Bermuda-based Alterra Capital in a deal valued nearly$3.13bn in cash and stock. Based on a closing price of$486.05 for Markel common stock on 18 ...
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SmartGlass International will soon be celebrating 12 successful years in operation.To coincide with this anniversary,we have been meeting with past customers,interior designers,architects,and developers to gain feedback on how the market ...
BASF Coatings and the design agency Are We Designer are joint winners of the "red dot award: communication design" for the design of their global automotive color trend book. The red dot award is a worldwide design awards. More than ...
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PartnerRe, a provider of diversified reinsurance services, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Presidio Reinsurance Group. Presidio Reinsurance Group is a specialty accident and health reinsurance and insurance writer, ...
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Almost every e-book reader on the market has a 6-inch screen, but the Kobo Mini ($80) has a touch display of just 5 inches—the same size as some bigger smart phones these days. The Mini's a decent-enough performer but, as with phones ...
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This app just won the 2011 eLit Book Awards for Innovative Digital Publishing Excellence sponsored by the publishing services firm Jenkins Group Inc. of Traverse City, MI. Open Arts Call: App creators, Wickedly Sisters, are inviting ...
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William Hill is presenting a full roster of football bets for Euro 2012, the competitions that begin in Warsaw on 8 June. The veteran bookmaker has been accepting wagers on the annual UEFA European Championships since the early days of the ...
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AIMS 360 continues their celebration of remote technology and automation through the month of July. "In the past couple months we have been gearing our marketing and sales efforts towards our one-of-a-kind native iPad app, AIMS RemoteLink. ...
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[Ask the iTunes Guy is a regular column in which we answer your questions on everything iTunes related. If theres something youd like to know, send an email to the iTunes Guy for consideration.] Among the many questions weve received ...
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Excel Software announced MacA&D 4.0 for requirements management, system and software design, code generation and flexible report generation. The new software adds flowcharts, general enhancements to all diagram types and scriptable reports, ...
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Visiting or exhibiting at Arab Health in January? Why not take advantage of UKTI’s FREE partnering event? Finding the right buyer or distributor in overseas markets can be time consuming and costly – so we’re bringing ...
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LOCAL shares rose for the third straight day today, hitting a fresh 17-month high as investors sought defensive and higher-yielding stocks as concern grew over the fate of US negotiations on the so-called fiscal cliff. The benchmark ...
China Knowledge reported that Sichuan Transportation Investment Group has said it will issue RMB 1 billion in unsecured bills with a maturity of 365 days on the interbank market on December 20. The company said that the bills will be ...
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Both Google and Oracle said Friday they did not pay any journalists or bloggers for coverage or commentary of their high-profile copyright infringement battle that recently concluded in a California court, but the companies disagreed on ...
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This practical information security title, offers a unique insight into the journey that an Information Security Manager goes through in a typical year. 'Once more unto the Breach: Managing information security in an uncertain world' is ...
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