Big data is not yet being embraced, according to Adrian Asher, chief information security officer (CISO) of the Skype division at Microsoft. Asher told delegates at Infosecurity Europe 2013 that big data is currently just a buzzword used ...
Tags: Big Data, Computer Products
Box is taking steps to increase usage of its cloud storage and file sharing system in the health care industry, where it sees a demand for tools that simplify content collaboration. The company hired an external auditor to certify that it ...
Tags: Box, Healthcare Customers
Medical device company Topera has secured $25m in Series C financing round led by a new investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA). A new strategic industry partner and the company's existing investors and the management team have also ...
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Allied World Assurance Company Holdings (AWH) has registered net income of $159m, or $4.49 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2013, against $218.2m, or $5.70 per diluted share, during the year ago period. For the quarter period ...
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Finnish paper and pulp company Mets Board has made improvements to its folding boxboards, Avanta Prima, Simcote and Carta Elega. The latest enhancements follow technical improvements that are made at the company's mills during the ...
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Life Technologies along with Aridhia, a biomedical informatics company, will provide the genetic analysis platform with its semiconductor based, Ion Proton DNA sequencing technology to the Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre ...
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The paperboard and paper supplier said the product enhancements improve the suitability of each cartonboard in the range for a particular packaging end-use such as food; beauty care; healthcare; or luxury packaging and graphics ...
A new strain of bird flu, which first originated in China and sickened more than 100, has spread to Taiwan, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A 53-year-old Taiwanese businessman who returned from China's coastal Jiangsu ...
Omron Healthcare has entered into an agreement to distribute NeuroMetrix's NC-stat DPNCheck in Japan. Designed to detect diabetic peripheral neuropathy at an early stage, the quantitative point-of-care test NC-stat DPNCheckmn allows ...
The US government has filed a civil fraud lawsuit against Novartis claiming the company made illegal payments to induce pharmacies to switch kidney transplant patients to its immunosuppressant drug Myfortic. Civil fraud lawsuit claimed ...
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In January 2013, ClydeUnion Pumps was awarded a healthcare contract by EPPCO Aviation to inspect, overhaul and refurbish three David Brown DB34 pumps and 450 kW motors for transportation of aviation fuel from the EPPCO Jebel Ali refinery to ...
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LED luminaires feature tunable white light engines for exceptional efficiency and color quality. Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) will demonstrate luminaires with patent-pending tunable white light engines at LIGHTFAIR® International ...
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TMC and Crossfire Media have announced the agenda for the M2M Evolution Conference and Expo, the premier machine-to-machine technology event, set for August 26 - 29, 2013. M2M Evolution is collocated with ITEXPO, taking place at the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
High unemployment and the continued slowdown in economic growth in the Southern European crisis countries in particular is still hampering economic development in the European Union (EU). While the countries moving towards recovery are ...
Tags: GFK Consumer Climate, unemployment
HanesBrands, a leading marketer of everyday basic apparel, today announced that it has expanded to Honduras its successful Central American school renovation and afterschool youth club programs in partnership with Glasswing International. ...