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ArticleCapgemini poll: Company IT will focus on efficiency and costs
Outsourcing of IT services will grow, according to a Capgemini poll of IT managers (Photo: Capgemini)IT managers will aim to boost efficiency, cut costs and offer stable services, according to a recent survey. Innovation and the support of other corporate business requirements will come second, according to the report.Consultants ...
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ArticleDaimler takes 12 pc stake in China's BAIC Motor
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche (l) and BAIC ChairmanXu Heyi formally agreed on greater cooperation Feb 1 (Photo: Daimler)Daimler will acquire a 12 pc stake in Beijing Automotive Group's (BAIC) passenger car division, the first time a western carmaker invests directly in a Chinese auto group.The two companies were already ...
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ArticleCAR Symposium: Dudenhoeffer says European car slump far from over
Dudenhoeffer says Western Europe still won't have fully recovered by 2020BOCHUM --The slump in European car sales is likely to last a bit longer than many people expect or hope, car expert Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer said Tuesday."Europe will come back very slowly," Dudenhoeffer told reporters attending the CAR Symposium here. ...
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ArticleGermany is site of Europe's fastest supercomputer
The Juqueen supercomputer has as much power as 100,000 PCs (Photo: Juelich Research Center)Researchers at the Juelich Research Center near Aachen in western Germany started work with a new high-performance computer that is the fastest supercomputer in Europe and the fifth-fastest worldwide.The computer, which is an IBM BlueGene/Q system ...
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ArticleT-Systems projects 1 billion euros cloud revenue by 2015
Like most IT service providers, T-Systems is selling more cloud services (Photo: Telekom)T-Systems expects to generate about 1 billion euros in annual revenue from cloud-based services by 2015, up 2.5 times from last year.The expected sales represent about one-seventh of total revenue at the business services division of Deutsche ...
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ArticleFord to hire 2,200 US workers this year
Ford Motor plans to hire 2,200 salaried workers in the US this year to support the planned rollout of a range of new vehicles.The US based carmaker said it added more than 8,100 hourly and salaried jobs in the US in 2012 as it increased production capacity and expanded its ...
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ArticleGM to hire 1,000 staff for new US IT innovation center
GM CIO Mott plans to hire thousands of staff to bring IT services in-house (Photo: Larry Peplin)General Motors plans to hire about 1,000 IT specialists to staff a new Information Technology Innovation center near Atlanta, Georgia, in the southern part of the US.The hiring push will focus on software ...
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ArticleFiat to build Jeeps in Italy
Fiat will start building Jeeps in Italy from 2014.The Italian carmaker said Thursday it plans to invest more than 1 billion euros in its plant in Melfi in southern Italy to build both a new Jeep brand vehicle and a new Fiat.Melfi will be "one of the most advanced car ...
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ArticleGM, PSA settle on 3 common vehicle projects
General Motors and PSA/Peugeot-Citroen will build three cars together and move ahead  with plans to jointly purchase components.The US and French carmakers, which earlier  this year agreed on a far-reaching cooperation, said they would develop common vehicle architectures for a C-segment vehicle for Opel and Peugeot; a B-segment ...
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ArticleChina-Sweden research center opened in Beijing
Volvo's knee airbag, seen here in the V40 Cross Country, underscores the carmaker's push for better safety features (Photo: Volvo)Representatives of Volvo Cars, the truck maker Volvo and universities in Gothenburg and Shanghai attended the official inauguration of the China-Sweden Research Center for Traffic Safety in Beijing this week.The ...
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ArticleBosch in bid to grow Russian business
Robert Bosch plans to build a new factory in Russia on the expectation that the country's car market will continue to grow rapidly in coming years.The German automotive supplier, the world's largest, said it would invest some 40 million euros in the plant in the next three years. Construction will ...
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ArticleEurope's digital to-do list
Kroes, in charge of the EU's digital agenda, expects a busy 2013 (Photo: EU)The European Commission has published a "digital to-do list" for the European Union's 27 member states in an effort to speed up the development of the internet economy.Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner in charge of the ...
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ArticleDaimler consolidates all China sales in one organization
Daimler has formed a new Chinese sales operation that will market its imported as well as locally produced vehicles in the world's largest car market.Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales Service is a 50-50 joint venture between Daimler and its Chinese partner, BAIC. It will handle sales and marketing, aftersales, used-car and fleet ...
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ArticleChina's BYD in joint venture to build electric buses in Europe
BYD's electric buses are drive in Shenzhen (Photo: BYD)China's BYD and Bulgaria's Bulmineral have established a joint venture to build electric buses in Europe.The move will help BYD accelerate its plans to establish itself as a global EV brand.It is the second major automotive investment by a Chinese company ...
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ArticleEurope approves unified patent
The European Parliament has approved legislation that will establish one patent for 25 of the 27 European Union member states.The move, which comes after more than 30 years of internal discussions, will cut the cost of an EU patent by up to 80 pc, the parliament said in a press ...
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ArticleOpel plans to close Bochum, Germany, car plant in 2016
Opel opened the Bochum plant in 1962 (Photo: Opel)Opel plans to end car production in Bochum, Germany, in 2016 as it reacts to continuing losses in the shrinking European car market.The German division of General Motors of the US said in a press release that it will cease car ...
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ArticleBMW launches new Web site
BMW's new Web site allows users to share configured cars with friends through social media (Photo: BMW)BMW has relaunched is Web site with new content, a different digital design and various social-media options.The new site is built around an improved car configurator that takes into account customers' now-standard practice ...
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ArticleSpace robots come to Daimler
Kuka is a major robotics supplier to the auto industry (Photo: Kuka)Daimler plans to deploy robots originally designed for use in outer space to help build cars on earth.The German premium car maker said it had signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Kuka, a large southern-German maker of industrial ...
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Article2013 cyber threats: Supply chain prone to data security risks
(Photo: ISF)With more internal information held by outside service providers, companies face the risk of increased threats to data security, according to an independent cyber security body."More organizations will fall victim to information security incidents at their suppliers," the Information Security Forum (ISF) predicted. "Today's organization's data is increasingly ...
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ArticleReport: Audi plans to invest 3 billion euros in China
Audi showed its new Q3 SUV at the Beijing auto show in April, 2012 (Photo: Audi)With demand for its cars surging, Audi plans to invest 3 billion euros in China in the next five years, according to a report in the government-owned China Daily.The newspaper, citing an interview with ...
