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Port Closures Mean Tech Companies Miss The Boat
News In addition to the port closures, tech companies in the past have had to contend with disruptions caused by fires and earthquakes. Many West Coast tech companies are waiting for their ships to come in -- literally.
[October 1, 2002, 11:23]
Texts Alert Parents To School Closures
News Fife Council has begun to use SMS and email to inform parents when schools are forced to close because of extreme weather The service is powered by the council's website, Fife Direct, which sends either a text message or email to the 1,600 parents...
[August 6, 2004, 14:55]
Union Criticises Gateway Closures
News Unions have offered to assist workers who are facing redundancy following Gateway's withdrawal from the UK and Ireland, amid concerns that laid-off employees could receive a meagre payoff. The Irish Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical...
[August 9, 2001, 13:15]
Dot-coms Now Closing At One A Day
News Dot-com closures are accelerating, with Internet startups now closing at the rate of about one a day, according to a new report. In November the rate of closures exceeded one a day, with 21 closures in the first half of the month alone, according...
[November 20, 2000, 10:50]
Dot-com Deaths Continue
News The number of Internet companies forced to close in April rose 20 percent compared on March figures, bringing the total number of dot-com closures since January last year to 435. The number of dot-com closures has been steadily increasing since the...
[May 2, 2001, 13:06]
Irish Controversy Dogs America Online
News Those closures inadvertently landed the world's largest online service in the midst of the turbulent debate over Irish independence -- and left some AOL users and Irish nationalists crying discrimination.
[January 8, 1999, 9:44]
Business 2.0 Closes European Editions
News The Future Network, the parent company of Business 2.0 publisher Imagine Media, said the closures result from the sluggish advertising market, which has adversely affected the magazine in Europe. A Business 2.0 representative in the United States...
[July 3, 2001, 11:43]
NEC's Scotland Pullout Threatens 450 Jobs
News The move, the latest in a series of job cuts and plant closures to hit the region, puts over 450 jobs at risk. The West Lothian area suffered several factory closures last year, as high-tech companies reined in their production in response to the...
[May 27, 2002, 11:44]
Siemens 'confident' On Restructuring...
News The spokesman countered claims that there would be further closures in the company's unprofitable semiconductor business and denied rumours circulating in the German press that 20,000 German-based jobs were about to be axed.
[December 3, 1998, 17:41]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Internet forcing high street closures -- The European Startling evidence of the Internet changing the landscape of the average British high street emerged this week with the announcement of hundreds of store closures.
[September 1, 1998, 11:02]
BT Pulls The Plug On 2,200 Call Centre Jobs
News The closures will be carried out in seven overlapping phases over the two years, with six months' notice being given in all cases. The first closures are expected to happen in October. In a move to reduce costs BT Retail is cutting 2,200 jobs over...
[March 27, 2002, 17:35]
Lacey's Paper Round: Best Of 1998
News Internet forcing high street closures Startling evidence of the Internet changing the landscape of the average British high street emerged this week with the announcement of hundreds of store closures.
[December 29, 1998, 5:41]
Dot-com Shutdowns Taking Summer Holiday
News Internet company closures are on track to far surpass last year's figures, and Miller said the jury is still out on whether July's drop means the worst is over. Thirty-two US Internet companies closed their doors in July, nearly half the level seen...
[August 2, 2001, 9:19]
Taking The RDF Model Theory Out For A Spin
White Papers This paper investigates the computational aspects of deductive closures of RDF graphs, and pursues an implementation based on Wilbur, Nokia Research Center's open source RDF toolkit. Entailment, as defined by RDF's model-theoretical semantics, is a...
[January 24, 2005, 23:00]
Working Together For Success: The Balanced Scorecard Solution At Peel Memorial Hospital
White Papers From mergers to forced closures to funding restraints, the health care industry is facing tremendous challenges. The development and implementation of a Balanced Scorecard at Peel Memorial Hospital (PMH) is the focus of this case study.
[April 27, 2005, 0:00]
Nortel Network Case Study: Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB)
White Papers In order to compete in the changing environment noted for mergers and mine closures, LKAB needed to find a way to improve their business process while driving down costs. Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) is a world-class iron ore products...
[January 10, 2008, 23:00]
More Cuts At Gateway
News PC maker Gateway on Thursday confirmed a steep drop in fourth-quarter sales, announced more job cuts and store closures, and said it would reduce PC prices. Gateway is cutting 2,250 jobs, or more than 15 percent of its remaining work force, a...
[January 25, 2002, 8:35]
Dell Meets Wall Street's Mark
News Dell reported a second-quarter profit of $433m (£300m), or 16 cents per share, excluding a pretax charge of $742m related to layoffs, facilities closures, and other cost-cutting measures. Price-cutting continued to pay off for Dell met second...
[August 17, 2001, 9:02]
More UK Dot-coms Come To The End Of The Road
News The latest closures in the UK include uTravel, Easier and PetsPyjamas, while start-up stars such as Freeserve (quote: FRE) and lastminute.com have watched their share prices drop ever lower. Dot-com failures are continuing at an increasing pace...
[November 23, 2000, 15:25]
3G Network Operator Announces Jobs Boost
News The news is a boost to the country's IT sector, which has been hit by a series of recent job cuts and factory closures. Six hundred new jobs are to be created in Scotland by Hutchison 3G, which is planning to base a customer care centre in Glasgow.
[November 14, 2001, 16:23]
