Candidates with the required technical skills are not hard to come by, but those with expertise in technology and an interest in business are a rarity, according to Neil Kellar, the director of IT and business services at the UK National ...
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has spoken out about his dissatisfaction with the pace of innovation at the company he founded in the 1970s. Gates handed over the role of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000 and has been blamed for a number ...
SAP is hoping to nail a slam dunk for its HANA in-memory platform through a partnership with the National Basketball Association on a new HANA-powered statistics website. Access to the site is available at no charge. It incorporates every ...
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Facebook is working hard to assure users that Graph Search, its new search engine designed to uncover all sorts of information buried within the site, does not compromise the privacy rights of minors. "As with all of our products, we ...
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IDG News Service - The growing number of shareholders voicing opposition to Dell's US$24.4 billion plan to go private appears to be putting the company increasingly on the defensive, raising questions about the terms of the deal. This is ...
Californians must pull on the same oar to address water crisis Drones begin descent on US agriculture Defending agriculture: five major trends that pose a threat to American farming To paraphrase Mark Twain’s famous quote upon ...
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Features include an interview with AGMS Managing Director Emmanuel Rohart who discusses the French company´s role as a glass melting specialist and how it has adapted to the changing world economic environment. The Lightweighting ...
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THE Kapiri Glass Manufacturing Company (KGMC) is expected to receive new equipment in the second quarter of this year in readiness for the commencement of production. Company chairman Costain Chilala said the company is expected to ...
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"It has been a slow path to commercialize smart packaging. Despite strong needs such as the aging population, tougher legislation, huge waste, more demanding consumers and concerns about safety and crime; commercial success has been mixed. ...
Questions are being raised about the terms of Dell’s $24.4 billion buyout deal, as the number of shareholders voicing opposition to the plan appears to be growing. Dell is now increasingly on the defensive. This is not good news ...
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An update to a survey conducted in spring of 2012 by McGladrey, a leading provider of assurance, tax and consulting services, indicates respondents’ optimism in their companies and the economy has fallen sharply. In an effort to ...
Data from the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF) today showed that January retail sales were up compared to December as well as on an annual basis. Commerce reported that January retail sales at ...
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In an interview with Reuters, the chief executive of Kuwait Energy says the company is committed to pumping gas and finding oil in southern Iraq, and will not risk aggravating Baghdad by pursuing deals in Iraqi Kurdistan. Sara Akbar ...
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The Nokia Germany product manager David • Akinjise recently in an interview revealed that user demand is not high on the full QWERTY keyboard phones and Nokia may not launch such products. Nokia might no longer launch a full ...
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Giant has announced plans to build a new $50 million (NT$1.5 billion) headquarters and research and development complex by 2016. Taiwan’s No. 1 bicycle manufacturer says it needs more room for its factory, which will eventually ...
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