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“Forty-three providers booked 2011 revenues of $1 billion or more. This group of providers collectively grew by 9.5 percent during 2011. After excluding India-based IT services providers, cloud-centric providers, and providers that made sizable acquisitions during the year, the remaining group of large ITO providers grew by only 6.5 percent during 2011.”
CIBT Expands Presence to Australia
CIBT, the global travel visa and passport services company, announced its acquisition of leading Australian visa services provider, Visalink Systems Pty Ltd. This acquisition is an important milestone in CIBT’s strategy to provide visa and other travel document services globally. With the addition of Visalink and its offices in Melbourne and Canberra, CIBT now operates more than 30 offices in ten countries; Belgium, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands,… continue reading »
Kronos Survey Shows Employees around the World “Making the Call” to Skip Work and Watch Sports Instead
A new global survey commissioned by The Workforce Institute™ at Kronos Incorporated and conducted by Harris Interactive reveals that employees around the world have, to varying degrees, called in sick to work over a sporting event. Whether they stayed home to watch it on television, attended it live, played the sport themselves, or needed a day off after staying up late to watch, sports have a significant impact on attendance at work. The… continue reading »
Research and Markets: Australia - Digital Entertainment and Media Market - 2012 edition
Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/pwvlph/australia_digita) has announced the addition of the "Australia - Digital Entertainment and Media Market - 2012 edition" report to their offering. Will Infrastructure Constrain The Digital Entertainment Market? The digital media market is changing as it has been impacted upon many aspects of the media industry of old. These changes, combined with an … continue reading »
SGI Takes Big Data Performance to New Levels with Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family
SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced full support for the newest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 and E5-4600 product families. With a strong relationship and over ten years of technology collaboration resulting in numerous innovative high performance computing advancements, SGI is incorporating the newest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 into SGI’s future shared memory platforms with many new, unique… continue reading »
New Tech Network to Open Dozens More Schools Nationwide
New Tech Network today announced it will be opening over three dozen new schools in 2012, expanding to more than 115 schools in 18 states that will use New Tech’s innovative, project-based learning methods. The schools include additional NYC Department of Education’s “iZone” schools, New Tech’s first-ever middle schools, and New Tech’s first international school in Australia. New Tech Network works with local school districts,… continue reading »
News Corporation Reports Third Quarter Earnings Per Share of $0.38; Growth of 58% over Prior Year Quarter
News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today reported third quarter revenue of $8.40 billion, a 2% increase over the $8.26 billion of revenue reported a year ago. The quarterly revenue increase was led by double-digit growth at the Company’s Cable Network Programming and Filmed Entertainment segments, partially offset by declines primarily at the Company’s Television segment due to the absence of revenues generated from the broadcast… continue reading »
SGI Awarded $27.8 Million DoD Contract
SGI (NASDAQ:SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has selected an SGI® ICE™ X high performance computing (HPC) system as part of its High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) to provide compute resources for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) DoD Supercomputing Research Center (DSRC). The agreement also includes storage and four years of support… continue reading »
Reading International Announces 1st Quarter 2012 Results
Reading International, Inc. (NASDAQ: RDI) announced today results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2012. First Quarter 2012 Highlights our revenue for the 2012 Quarter was $62.7 million, compared to $54.2 million in the same Quarter in 2011, an increase of 15.5% primarily due to an increase in revenue of $6.2 million from our U.S. cinema circuit driven by an increase in U.S. box office attendance of 518,000; … continue reading »
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies Return to Cinemas
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh’s beloved The Phantom of the Opera makes its cinematic return on Monday, May 21, with a special encore presentation of Lloyd Webber’s long-awaited continuation, Love Never Dies on Wednesday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. local time giving audiences a chance to see the story from start to finish in this special presentation of The Phantom of the Opera—The Complete Story. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2011… continue reading »
Wrapp Prepares to Introduce Mobile Social Gifting in Brazil
Wrapp, the new social gifting app for celebrating, thanking, surprising and delighting friends and family with free gift cards from top retailers, has just introduced its service in the U.S. and is now preparing to do the same Brazil. Created for Facebook and smartphone users, Wrapp allows friends to contribute to the free gift cards, and makes it fun and easy to give, receive and redeem them using mobile devices. For… continue reading »
News Corporation Statement on UK’s Parliamentary Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport’s News of the World Report
"Hard truths have emerged from the Select Committee Report: that there was serious wrongdoing at the News of the World; that our response to the wrongdoing was too slow and too defensive; and that some of our employees misled the Select Committee in 2009. News Corporation regrets, however, that the Select Committee's analysis of the factual record was followed by some commentary that we, and indeed several members of the committee, consider… continue reading »
Research and Markets: Australia - Digital Media - Gaming and Gambling - The Interactive Gambling Act Remains Under Review In 2012
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b885p9/australia_digita) has announced the addition of the "Australia - Digital Media - Gaming and Gambling" report to their offering. With the convergence of telecoms, media and IT we saw the arrival of digital media. Digital media has seen some industries diminish while it also has spawned the growth of new industries and seen others expand. In this report we focus on one of… continue reading »
Research and Markets: Australia - Digital TV - Market Overview and Statistics - 2012
Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/wm7kvx/australia_digita) has announced the addition of the "Australia - Digital TV - Market Overview and Statistics" report to their offering. Since the introduction of digital TV to Australia, there have been additional channels available to viewers. However, difficulties such as poor reception in many areas still need to be overcome. While the global financial… continue reading »
Research and Markets: Australia - Free-to-Air TV - Market Overview and Statistics - 2012
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/hffjx5/australia_freet) has announced the addition of the "Australia - Free-to-Air TV - Market Overview and Statistics" report to their offering. During 2011 more viewers across Australia chose to watch the FTA television channels as the changing market conditions of digital TV from analogue signalling and the provision of more channels started to take effect on our… continue reading »
Orc Releases Next Generation Derivatives Market Making Application for Asia
Orc, a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry, today announced the regional launch of Orc Market Maker, a server based solution that combines the speed, scalability and rich functionality demanded in today’s competitive markets. Orc Market Maker addresses the present and future challenges of making markets in listed derivatives, including the need to manage low-latency quoting strategies across multiple… continue reading »
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