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With the declining effectiveness of CPM-based advertising, brand buyers will increasingly look for alternatives and targeted offers in addition to display advertising as a strategic part of the marketing mix, argues NimbleCommerce’s European dir…

A report by Reuters said that sources close to the deal had confirmed that the purchase could be worth up to $9bn at official list prices, a transaction that would be an important turn in the increasingly fierce competition between Airbus and Boeing. …

Hakan Samuelsson took over the reins in October and in his first series of interviews said the company would be reviewing contracts with consultants, IT and other personnel as the company focuses its mind on returning to profitability.

Speaking to th…

According to a new report from recruitment company Futurestep, HR managers are already asking the insource versus outsource question more than they have historically, both to make more sense of what outsourcing can mean for them, but also to build an …

According to Visiongain, the sector will experience strong growth to at least 2022 as companies and governments around the world seek to profit from the vast potential of oil shale reserves.

“The global oil shale market is only commercially active i…

According to reports on The Guardian, Uzbekistan forces children as young as nine to pick cotton in conditions which have been described by charity group, Anti-Slavery International, as ’appalling’.

Several high street retailers, includin…

Service suppliers whose contracts are coming up for renegotiation are seeing payment terms extending to 180 days as standard, up from 60 or 90 days previously.

Robert Downes, policy advisor at the Forum of Private Business (FPB), criticised the move:…

Dubbed DHL SEAIR, the combined sea and air freight offering has been expanded to Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Dakar (Senegal), Luanda (Angola), Douala (Cameroon), Malabo (Equa…

Cloud-based services revenues in two years are expected to comprise nearly twice its current share of provider revenue, according to the 2012 Cloud Providers Global Survey from KPMG International.

The study notes that business users’ migration …

Results from the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Storage Software QView show the worldwide storage software market increased 1.4% during the third quarter of 2012 (3Q12) compared to the same quarter of 2011. Revenue during the th…