PORTLAND, OR (BRAIN)—While Portland is a commuter market, it also has a thriving mountain bike, tri and road scene. New shops offering only service are also finding success in this crowded retail market, as are Internet-based ...
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OLYMPIA, WA (BRAIN) — The bike retail business lost two members recently. Each was killed in a vehicle accident while bicycling. Trent Graham, 30, an employee at Gregg's Cycle in Washington, was killed after being struck by a truck ...
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By 2014,80%of current gamified applications will fail to meet business objectives,primarily because of poor design,according to Gartner. Brian Burke,research vice-president at Gartner,said:"Poor game design is one of the key failings of ...
Funds advised by Triton today announced the sale of logistics specialist Dematic, the global leader in warehouse technology and materials handling solutions, to private equity investor AEA Investors (“AEA”) and Teachers’ ...
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Taipei, Nov. 21, 2012 (CENS)--According to the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA), as of Nov. 15 the number of Taiwan’s enterprises providing unpaid leave to employees increased two more from a month ago to 49, with workers on the ...
Northwest Savings Bank has agreed to purchase an employee benefits and property and casualty insurance firm,The Bert Insurance Group,for an undisclosed sum. As part of a definitive agreement signed between both parties,Bert will operate ...
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PowerStream has donated one of its bucket trucks to Conestoga College in Ingersoll, Ont., "in recognition of the need to assist in the education and training of future Powerline Technicians for Ontario's electricity industry". Students at ...
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Global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts&Co has agreed to acquire specialty insurance brokerage firm Alliant Insurance Services from Blackstone for an undisclosed sum. Alliant's management team and employees currently own nearly ...
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A Montmorency agricultural manufacturing company in Victoria has been fined $140,000 following an incident in 2010 in which a worker was killed. TCMH Holdings Pty Ltd pleaded guilty at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court earlier this week to ...
Apple iPhones and Android smartphones will replace BlackBerry as the top smartphones used by workers around the world in 2012,IDC said in an updated forecast. The IDC report on enterprise use of smartphones notes that businesses are ...
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The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is looking for a supplier or suppliers for new IT hardware in an agreement worth between 50m euros and 100m euros. Acting as an agent for the Trust,group purchasing ...
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Barclays is rolling out 8,500 Apple iPads across branches to improve interaction with customers. Shaygan Kheradpir, COO at Barclays' retail and business banking division, told Computer Weekly earlier this year that the company was ...
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Energy company Centrica has carried out its first corporate agile IT project,building an employee self-service HR portal in an SAP environment for 30,000 users. Mark Tristram,agile development manager,Centrica said the SAP competency ...
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The National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S.plans to drop the BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion for Apple's iPhone,citing performance issues. The iPhone 5 smartphone will replace the NTSB's existing BlackBerry ...
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South Carolina's governor faulted an outdated Internal Revenue Service standard as a contributing factor to a massive data breach that exposed Social Security numbers of 3.8 million taxpayers plus credit card and bank account data. ...
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