Personal lines insurer Allstate has agreed to divest its life and annuity businesses Lincoln Benefit Life Company (LBL) to Resolution Life, in a deal agreed for $600m. The insurer said that it will cease issuing fixed annuities at the end ...
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Rob Wilkins, senior publisher of our Trucking Group of magazines, research, online and video properties has announced his retirement. "Rob has been a great leader for this organization for over 33 years, leading his team into establishing ...
Tags: Transportation
Hankook Tire Europe GmbH has appointed Gang Seung Lee (Tony) to head up its UK operations based in Daventry as the company continues to expand its presence in the UK market. He takes over the role from Richard Page who will continue to work ...
Tags: Tire, Auto Parts
Microsoft's former head of Windows 8 development has agreed not to badmouth Microsoft or work for some of its competitors and in return will receive a pay-out for unvested stock in the company, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. ...
Tags: Computer Products, Windows 8, Microsoft
AIG's American General Life Companies has unveiled its new lifestyle income rider, which can be issued with AG secure lifetime guaranteed universal life insurance (GUL) policies. The lifestyle income solution on AG Secure Lifetime GUL is ...
The coal-fired capacity utilizing selective catalytic reduction for NOx control will nearly double in the period 2012 to 2017. This is the prediction of the McIlvaine Company in its continually updated, NOx Control World Markets. Total ...
Global talent, retirement and health solutions business Aon Hewitt has formed a partnership with eHealth, an online health insurance exchange, to provide enrollment services to its health insurance clients. Under the partnership, ...
Nike announced that Charlie Denson, NIKE Brand President since 2006 and a 34-year veteran of the brand, will retire in January 2014. In conjunction with Denson’s decision to retire, the Company also announced strategic changes in its ...
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Marsh will join DS Smith from Tesco where he was the group director of tax and corporate finance for three and a half years. He was also chief financial officer (CFO) at AstraZeneca and CFO of Global Building Products at Pilkington. ...
The board of directors of San'an Optoelectronics announced on the evening of June 18 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Xiamen San'an Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd, intends to spend 280 million Yuan at most to purchase 20 units of ...
Tags: LED Chip, Optoelectronics
Heavy-duty transit bus manufacturer New Flyer has secured a contract to deliver 265 buses to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), Georgia in the US. Out of the 265 buses, the contract contains firm order of eight low ...
The new OS X Mavericks will run on the same set of Mac desktops and notebooks able to handle the current OS X Mountain Lion, but iOS 7 dropped support for iPhone 3GS, the 2009 smartphone supported by the current iOS 6. OS X 10.9, aka ...
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Google Thursday announced the retirement of a 4-year-old plug-in designed to let users of older version of Internet Explorer (IE) run Chrome's browser engine, declaring mission accomplished. Chrome Frame joins numerous other discontinued ...
The New York State Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure that allows the New York City Board of Elections to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines around the city with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the ...
Tags: Voting Machines, New York City
Microsoft today said it will ship just five security updates next week, the fewest in any month so far this year, to patch 23 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE), Windows and Office. The update for Office will address a bug that is ...
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