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Fujitsu introduces high level cloud computing based services
Fujitsu, one of Japan's leading global brands offering IT products and services, launched new services based on cloud computing at the Fujitsu annual forum in Tokyo. The company aims to target the Japanese domestic market worth 3 billion US $ in this financial year. Fujitsu's Tsuneo Kawatsuma made a conceptual presentation to indicate the shift of Cloud computing from private space to ...
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Sharath stretches world No.5 Timo Boll in World TT
Sharath Kamal took a game off World No.5 Timo Boll before going down 1-4 in the men's singles second round at the World Table Tennis Championships here, ending the Indian challenge in the mega event. Germany's Timo Boll got the better of Sharath 9-11, 12-10, 11-1, 11-5, 11-2 in a round of 64 match Thursday night. The two paddlers play for the same club in Germany, Borussia Dusseldorf. Sharath, ...
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Anand Sharma invites Japanese Inc to invest in India
Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister Anand Sharma, addressing the "India Investment Roundtable" jointly organized by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) of Ministry of Commerce and Confederation of Indian Industry in Tokyo today, invited leading Japanese companies to invest in India and become partner in the growth story of India for mutual benefit. India and Japan ...
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FIFA says 76 percent of Confederations Cup tickets sold
More than 76 percent of tickets available for next month's Confederations Cup in Brazil have been sold, world football's governing body, FIFA said. The South American country is on target to break the record set by Germany in 2005 when the tournament's attendances reached 83 percent of capacity, according to FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke, reports Xinhua. "The response from Brazilian ...
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How Tom Perlmutter turned the NFB into a global new-media player
When Tom Perlmutter took on the top job at the National Film Board of Canada in 2007, he did what was expected - travelled to Ottawa and began knocking on doors. He found a sympathetic audience among bureaucrats and politicians who agreed the NFB was a worthy thing and should digitize its remarkable collection of Canadian film, but nobody actually produced any cash for an institution that was ...
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Freedom Gala aids victims of global sex trade
STANDING TALLER: Shannon Belkin and Tina Oliver's golf club lunches for 100 women regularly benefited the Salvation Army's Deborah's Gate program to aid sexual-trafficking victims. This year, with Oliver still on the committee and Tali'ah Aquilini co-chairing, Belkin moved the Freedom Gala to the Sheraton Wall Centre hotel. With men now attending and author-TV reporter Victor ...
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Facebooks Sandberg says its okay for women to cry at work
business daily, the 43-year-old admitted: "I cry at work," adding women are not "one type of person Monday through Friday" and "then a different person in the nights and weekend." "I think we are all of us emotional beings and it's okay for us to share that emotion at work," said Facebook's number two, who was named ...
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Taste of outside world Smugglers sneak KFC into Gaza
The demand for KFC in the Gaza strip has led one company to beat the Israeli blockade by smuggling the fast food through tunnels from Egypt. NBC's Annabel Roberts ...
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Bellary case developing mining penal code for the country CSE
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said that the Bellary case and perhaps now the Goa case is setting a precedent for mining regulations in the ...
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World Curling Federation launches green facilities drive
May 17 - The World Curling Federation (WCF) has introduced a new energy efficiency initiative to help member associations cut their carbon footprints by boosting the environmental credentials of existing curling facilities. As part of the drive, the WCF is offering interest free loans of up to $100,000 (66,000/EUR78,000) or 50 per cent of the costs involved in a project to help limit the ...
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Gawker launches crackstarter to buy Rob Ford video
Mayor Ford to Horwath: Force an election TORONTO - They’re not raising money for impoverished children or a cure for cancer - it’s to own the rights to the infamous video of Toronto’s mayor said to be smoking crack. And all that money would be going to Rexdale drug dealers. Gawker, the New York-based news and gossip website that broke the story that there is a video they ...
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Can art change the world
>Editor's note: Flora Zhang is a producer at CNN Digital. Follow her on Twitter: @flozha (CNN) -- "If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people. "JR, the 30-year-old globetrotting French street artist, could well say the same about the slums of Kenya or the favelas of Brazil, where he has created large-scale projects. Known for his black-and-white portraits, poster-sized ...
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The world according to Badr Jafar
We are two minutes into the conversation, and Badr Jafar already needs to explain himself. "You'll be glad to know that there is a logic behind the perceived madness," he ...
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UAEs Hakkasan eyes global brand expansion
The announcement comes shortly after the launch of its first branded entertainment and nightlife venue Hakkasan Las Vegas at MGM Grand Hotel & ...
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Afghanistan turns to Australia for mining expertise
Afghanistan Australia could help Afghanistan develop its fledgling mining industry and tap into mineral and energy reserves estimated to be worth trillions of dollars. The country is eager to find a new source of revenue when international aid starts to decline and foreign forces withdraw next year. Afghan mining minister Wahidullah Shahrani, has already met with various Australian Government ...
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How to get more older women on TV | Anna Ford
Anna Ford 'Women of age often have wisdom, beauty, humour - and another point of view. So why aren't they chosen?' Photograph: Hugo ...
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Veterans from World War II carrier hold final reunion
Veterans of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Franklin held their final planned reunion Friday in South Carolina. The gathering, held at the USS Yorktown at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant brought together about two dozen of the remaining crew members. The Franklin was badly damaged in a Japanese attack on March 19, 1945. During the bomb attack, more than ...
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Being a Democracy Hating Corporate Power-Defending Newspaper Owner Runs Deep in the Koch Family
The Koch bros are rumored to be possible bidders for the Tribune company and its large regional papers including the LA Times their grandfather Harry Koch would be ...
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Saratoga Teen’s Research Takes Science World By Storm
18-year-old Eesha Khare (left), a senior at Lynbrook High School, is one of two runners up at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix. ...
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Moodys Global economicrecovery losing momentum
(MENAFN - Arab News) Over the past three months, the global economic recovery from last year's slowdown has lost momentum, with several economies still facing significant challenges and unlikely to quickly resume "normal" growth rates, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report.Moody's expects the euro area economy, in particular, to experience a deeper and lengthier ...
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Bill Gates is the world’s richest man Bloomberg Billionaires Index
File photo: Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, listens during the 2013 Fiscal Summit at Mellon Auditorium May 7, 2013 in Washington, ...
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Great Dane is new President of Badminton World Federation
May 18 - Denmark's Poul-Erik Hyer-Larsen is the new President of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) after winning today's election in Kuala Lumpur. The 1996 Olympic men's singles gold medallist defeated his only rival, Indonesia's Justian Suhandinata, in the vote by the BWF membership at the Annual General Meeting.The 47-year-old Hyer-Larsen polled 145 votes to ...
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Cannes Former EMI Boss Launches Entertainment Finance Production Venture
and three partners from the entertainment, finance and brand worlds on Friday unveiled a new entertainment finance, production and distribution venture ...
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Angel Network gives business owners a shot
Jim Pendleton has been an entrepreneur for most of his life and knows starting a business takes ';long hard work and hours with limited capital.';He believes entrepreneurs are the ';backbone of our nation,'; so he and a small group of local business owners have joined forces to help others. Pendleton is president and chairman of the Tyler Texas Angel Network, a group of ...
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German unions agree on engineering industry contract
On Tuesday night, the IG Metall (IGM) and the employers' association in the state of Bavaria signed a contract for workers in the engineering industry. It serves as a model agreement for 3.7 million workers employed in the sector throughout Germany.Engineering workers will receive an extra 3.4 percent pay from July and another 2.2 percent wage increase commencing May 1, 2014. The contract ...
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Shipping Wars: Uruguay and Argentina face off over rival port expansion plans
Argentina and Uruguay both want to be the shipping hubs of South America, or southern South America at least, and both are planning to considerably expand their port infrastructure in Buenos Aires and Montevideo respectively, which is leading to considerable diplomatic strain.
Argentina is a regional power in South America, the country is considered one of the more developed nations on the continent on-par with Uruguay (on paper at least, with a similar per capita income and Human Development Index rating) although the country occupies a majority of the continent with Brazil and presides over a massive coastline. Read more
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