Building information modelling is becoming increasingly popular but may present problems for some lighting designers. Ruth Slavid explores the obstacles and outlines the solutions to help you find your way through the modelling maze ...
Social media can make financial institutions seem less dull and better engage customers, according to officials on a panel at the AB+F Retail Financial Services Forum. Engaging customers through social media is a “game ...
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About a third of the country's baby formula businesses will be axed, in what experts are calling a major consolidation of the industry. The government has been trying to revive the industry since the 2008 melamine scandal, but consumer ...
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More than half (58%) of European mid-sized firms refuse to do business with a company that had suffered a data breach, despite the fact that 41% believe data loss is just an inevitable part of daily business, a new study has revealed. The ...
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Retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies today are dealing with new rules of consumer engagement as they seize opportunities from advanced technology and the digitally connected consumer, according to the 2013 Financial ...
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Officials say Jordan's cabinet decided to place a protective tariff on imported iron. The tariff charge standards in the first year was 80 dinars per ton. It's 70 dinars per ton in the second year and 60 dinars per ton in the third year. ...
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Photo courtesy of Heathrow Airport. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) 69th Annual General Meeting (AGM) overwhelmingly endorsed the resolution on “Implementation of the Aviation Carbon-Neutral Growth (CNG2020) ...
Windows 8 is a ‘disappointing' operating system and Microsoft has six months to convince doubters otherwise, or risk being frozen out of the enterprise IT environment. That is the view of Jean-Christophe Lalanne, CIO of Air France ...
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A lot of people believe dried fruit is “fattening” and loaded with sugar, but neither is true—if you buy the right kind. In fact, strategically using dried rather than fresh fruit is a smart way to meet your nutrient ...
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Sales of Sony's Xperia A smartphone have doubled those of the Samsung Galaxy S4 at Japan's main carrier, after a nationwide sales campaign that exclusively promoted the two handsets side-by-side. A screen shot from the website of NTT ...
Nutrition Dried fruits retain most of the nutritional value of fresh fruits, and so are included with fresh fruit in dietary recommendations by U.S. and world health agencies. The specific nutrient content of the different dried fruits ...
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China Steel Corp. (CSC) announced to cut its prices for electric furnace (EF) Al-killed wire rods by NT$1,400/ton for June to NT$20,800/ton. Meanwhile, the transaction price is at NT$19,800/ton~NT$20,300/ton, touching the history low. Even ...
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China once again leads the A.T. Kearney Retail Apparel Index. The Apparel Index also includes a number of countries from Latin America and the Middle East showing that these regions continue to offer compelling opportunities. The Retail ...
Middle Eastern businesses want to invest in IT during 2013, but they’re struggling to find skilled candidates to fill posts, according to new research released by CompTIA, a non-profit association for the IT industry. According to ...
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Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or later ...
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