Retailers have had another rocky year with more high street closures piling up, while online spend continued to enjoy double digit growth. As consumer spending remained stagnant, companies looked to their digital channels to bolster sales. ...
Hewlett-Packard will continue to evaluate potential divestitures of underperforming parts of its business, and the process could get messy, the company warned its investors in its annual 10-K document, which was filed in late December. ...
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A man from Michigan was arraigned in a U.S. federal court on Thursday on charges of mail fraud and selling counterfeit software worth over US$1.2 million that he purchased from China and Singapore, the U.S Department of Justice said ...
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IDG News Service-Google has staked$8.1 million in the market for digital signatures on electronic documents with a venture capital investment in DocuSign,the companies announced Tuesday. DocuSign's technology is used by companies for ...
The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)claims to be about helping organisations to do the right thing,yet it punishes organisations that report breaches.But does this make sense?Is this really a good policy? The best-known case is the ...
IDG News Service - The venture capitalist Vinod Khosla recently described Silicon Valley as a state of mind, rather than a geographical place. If that's the case, that state of mind can increasingly be found in San Francisco. Young tech ...
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Originally, it was a small store, which was essentially focused on making designer baby wear for kids in the family. In due course, the owner Caroline Mckain decided to progress further with a new line of business. The business ...
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Technology firms including Google,Apple,eBay and Yahoo were among almost 300 companies whose websites were hit by a hack attack in Pakistan. The attack,which exploited vulnerabilities in domain name systems(DNS)to redirect ...
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Mobile payments are expected to be worth $730bn by 2017 with high street purchases driving growth, according to a study from Juniper Research. The report: Mobile Payments for Digital & Physical Goods: Opportunity Analysis 2012-2017 ...
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Oracle today announced it has bought network virtualisation specialist Xsigo. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed,but Oracle said it was keen to bring together its own server virtualisation offerings with the smaller ...
One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that simulate organs or organisms, mind you; they ...
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The British Fashion Council announces 30 of London’s menswear designers will be exhibiting in the Designer Galleries at London Collections: Men, 7th – 9th January 2013. The Designer Galleries at the Hospital Club showcase an ...
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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have remedied a cryptographic weakness in their email systems that could allow an attacker to create a spoofed message that passes a mathematical security verification. The weakness affects DKIM, or DomainKeys ...
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ZeroLag, the first name in managed hosting, is pleased to announce it has joined Magneto eCommerce's Hosting Partner Program as a Platinum Partner, the highest of the three-tier levels. The program recognizes the strategic role that ...
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Even before Apple sent invitations for the Tuesday launch event where it will likely unveil a smaller iPad, consumers were unloading their old tablets in increasing numbers so they can trade up to Apple's latest, according to gadget ...
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