November 27, 2012 - Eaton Corp. and Cooper Industries plc today announced the Irish High Court has approved Eaton's acquisition of Cooper. Eaton and Cooper entered into a transaction agreement by which Eaton would acquire Cooper through ...
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Huntington Memorial Hospital, a 625-bed, not-for-profit community-focused regional medical center, has chosen Merge Healthcare's Merge PACS and the entire iConnect Enterprise Clinical solution. Huntington will integrate the Merge's ...
The Department for Education is cutting IT staff among 1,000 job losses to reduce total headcount by a quarter. The announcement comes as the government aims to shrink Whitehall to its smallest size since the Second World War under the ...
Tags: IT staff, job losses, Civil Service Reform Plan, cutting red tape
Web content is great,when you don't mind visiting a multitude of Web sites in order to peruse all that you want to see.Wouldn't it be great if you could grab the content you wanted to read and put it in one place,almost like a virtual ...
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Two AU Optronics (AUO) subsidiaries, Lextar and Wellypower, are set to merge. According to David Su, chairman of Lextar, the only overlapping technology between the two firms is packaging. Wellypower currently has CCFL and SMD LED products ...
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CA Technologies has updated its Clarity project and portfolio management software to accommodate more comprehensive long-term planning. Users of CA Clarity told the company that the software "needed better forecasting and stronger ...
Tags: CA, project and portfolio management software, PPM Software
Fair Friend Group, a Taiwan-based machine-tool conglomerate, plans to invest more than EU$50 million (US$64.795 million) to merge two to three Italian machine-tool makers, becoming the largest machine-tool group in Italy, said Jimmy Chu, ...
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IDG News Service-Marten Pieters,MD&CEO,Vodafone Essar,says IT has helped the company serve more customers,conquer rural India,and make Vodafone India's second largest mobile service provider. CIO:What do you think of the low tariff rates ...
Taiwan-based LED firm High Power Opto has enlisted Semileds to become a shareholder with a close to 10% stake, which makes Semileds the largest single shareholder of the firm. High Power Opto reported net losses of NT$1.108 billion ...
PPG Industries reported third quarter 2012 net sales of $3.8 billion. Net income for the quarter was $339 million, including nonrecurring charges. Adjusted net income for the quarter, excluding the nonrecurring charges, was $348 million. ...
Tags: PPG Industries, automotive OEM, refinish coatings, Performance Coatings
Softbank will acquire a 70%stake in Sprint Nextel,with the boards of both companies agreeing to the deal,which will be announced Monday,according to CNBC. Japan's third-largest wireless carrier will pay$20 billion for the ...
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With 25,000 employees and 751 branches across the US, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores had its work cut out when it decided to virtualise SAP and migrate from an IBM mainframe onto x86 servers using VMware technologies. During VMworld ...
Tags: Virtualise Sap, branches, US
Jakob Müller AG Frick and Comez Gestioni S.p.A. combine their business activities in the field of crochet and knitting machines. COMEZ will operate as of October 8th, 2012 under the name Comez International s.r.l. as a member of the ...
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Digisonics PACS API enables facilities to create a seamless electronic workflow. HOUSTON, TX, October 04, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Kaiser Permanente in Brooklyn Heights, Ohio and Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, Mass. will ...
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While T-Mobile USA announced a deal to merge with MetroPCS Wireless on Wednesday,Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen said regulatory delays have prevented his company from securing partners and spectrum it will need to build a viable mobile ...