Yahoo has agreed to acquire the development team of mobile app company Propeld, the third mobile start-up it has bought in four months. As first reported by TechCrunch, Propeld's Alike app allows users to discover and recommend nearby ...
Tags: Yahoo, mobile app, company news
Networking specialist Cisco has reported a $900m (£579m) year on year rise on its second quarter profits – a 44 per cent increase. The firm reported net sales of $12.1bn in its second quarter, which is a rise of five per cent ...
Tags: Networking, Cisco, profits
Portola Packaging has announced plans to invest $12m in its facilities in Kingsport, Tennessee, and Tolleson, Arizona, in order to address the growing demand for its dairy containers as well as hot-fill and aseptic beverage closures. The ...
Tags: Portola Packaging, dairy containers, hot-fill, aseptic beverage closures
The Duke of York and processor firm ARM have put their shoulders behind Code Club, a nationwide volunteer project to teach programming to 9-11 year-olds in after-school clubs. Thought up by computer scientist Linda Sandvik and user ...
Tags: Duke of York, ARM, Code Club, volunteer project
Houston-based retailer Mattress Firm ranked No. 7 in Workplace Dynamics' annual National Top 150 Workplaces survey of employees. Workplace Dynamics surveyed more than one million employees from 872 companies to create the list, using ...
Tags: Mattress Firm, annual National Top 150 Workplaces, company news
ST. LOUIS — Furniture Brands International said Friday that board member James Zimmerman has told the company he will not stand for reelection to the board at the company's May 2 stockholders meeting. Zimmerman, a retired Federated ...
ING US has named Dave Swanson as senior vice president and head of employee benefits product and pricing team, in a bid to develop its business by offering latest product design and disciplined pricing. Based in the company's Minneapolis ...
Tags: employee benefits product, Insurance Solutions, Insurance
EzPaycheck 2013 is the simple, but flexible payroll software for small businesses and accountants. The new version was updated with the latest federal and state tax tables and forms to speed up 2013 payroll jobs. LOUISVILLE, KY, February ...
US-based employee benefits-only agency Digital Insurance has purchased Tennessee’s Capital Benefits Group, for an undisclosed sum. The acquired entity operates as a division of Digital Insurance, under the Digital Benefit Advisors ...
Effective Jan. 1, 2013, chemical and colorant manufacturer and distributor First Source Worldwide LLC (FSW), Neenah, Wis., has acquired the Dalton, Ga.-based dyes business of custom chemical formulator Manufacturers Chemicals, Cleveland, ...
Tags: chemical, colorant, First Source Worldwide
A disgruntled employee, angry at missing out on a pay rise, conducted a three-year campaign of sabotage against his company's computers by spraying the cleaning product Cillit Bang into the grills of the servers. Credit controller Edward ...
An Iraqi telecom company raised nearly $1.3 billion Sunday on Baghdad’s small stock exchange in one of the region’s biggest share offers in years — a sign of investor confidence in the fledgling private sector despite ...
Tags: Iraq, Stock Sale, Investor, Confidence
Principal Financial Group (PFG) has completed acquisition of Chile’s AFP Cuprum, following Empresas Penta and Inversiones Banpenta Limitada sold their 63% ownership in Cuprum. Initially, PFG acquired 90.4% ownership stake in Cuprum ...
Tags: PFG, acquisition, AFP Cuprum
John Shaw, Vice President of Product Management, Sophos Sophos on Tuesday unveiled Mobile Control 3.0, the latest version of its MDM (mobile device management) product for Android-based tablets and smartphones. The new version includes ...
Tags: John Shaw, Sophos, Mobile Control 3.0
My employer told me she will soon have to pay $1,800 per employee annually for Obamacare. Does that sound accurate? She doesn't provide us health insurance right now. A You told me in a follow-up e-mail that there are fewer than 50 ...
Tags: health insurance, healthcare, insurance