A global campaign designed to help retailers and consumers cut down on food waste has been launched by the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation and civil society partners. The 'Think. Eat. Save. Reduce Your Footprint' campaign, ...
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US-based member owned financial cooperative firm North Carolina State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) has launched its new business unit known as SECU Life Insurance Company. The insurance firm, which was set up with an initial ...
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To simplify the roll-out of clusters for big data applications, Skytap is now offering pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates that can run in the company's public cloud. There is a growing interest in big data using Hadoop, but to even ...
The U.S. government misrepresented facts when it approached a court for search warrants against Megaupload, according to a filing Wednesday by counsels of the file-sharing site. The basis for the warrants was the charge that Megaupload ...
Tags: U.S.government, Megaupload, infringing files, warrants
USA - The number of Broadway productions relying on DiGiCo technology continues to grow, the company reports. This June, two of the newest productions and their respective sound designers took home coveted 2012 Tony Awards for sound design: ...
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The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions and developer of MeerCAT , a visualization toolkit for wireless network security, has been selected as a finalist in the Government Security News (GSN) 2012 Homeland Security Awards ...
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Mark Finelli, President of MARK SYSTEMS, will be addressing the members of the Distributive Education Clubs of America at Drexel University on Monday, October 15th at 7:00PM at the LeBow College of Business campus. Mr. Finelli will focus on ...
Hotel chain in the UK, QHotels has signed up to Waste & Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP) Hospitality and Food Service agreement in a bid to reduce food and associated packaging waste throughout the country. As part of the ...
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Designed by Giles Godwin Brown, the Nepa Lamp works to blend the traditional task lamp form switching from a 2-dimensional drawing-like form and then back into a 3-dimensional piece creating a completely new identity from a familiar source. ...
Tags: lamp works, lamp, stand flat against a wall, high-powered LEDs
Charlesbank Capital Partners announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire OneStopPlus Group,a subsidiary of Paris-based luxury and sport&lifestyle group PPR.Charlesbank is partnering with Webster Capital on the transaction,which is ...
Tags: plus-size consumers, women's apparel, agreement, acquire
MphasiS, a unit of HP Company, has signed a definitive agreement to buy US based Digital Risk, is an all cash deal valued at $175m. Digital Risk is an independent provider of risk, compliance and transaction management technologies to the ...
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UK-based Paper Cup Company is keen to work with WRAP (waste & resources action programme) to help increase the overall rate of packaging waste that is being recycled or composted. According to WRAP, it aims for a CO2e reduction of 234,000 ...
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Ann Taylor celebrated the grand opening of its first international store with a chic in-store cocktail together with The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). The first Canadian Ann Taylor flagship store is located in the Toronto Eaton ...
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A U.S.judge should limit the scope of a proposed court hearing examining whether a former Megaupload user can recover files that were on the website when the U.S.Department of Justice shut it down,the agency said. The hearing should focus ...
Tags: DOJ, Megaupload, data stored, Goodwin
A U.S.federal judge has asked for more information to plan an evidentiary hearing concerning the fate of terabytes of data held in limbo since the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site. U.S.government prosecutors and Kyle Goodwin ...
Tags: EFF, Government, Data