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Oracle overtakes IBM as second-largest software vendor, Gartner says
2014-04-01 00:33:03| InfoWorld: Top News
Oracle has overtaken rival IBM as the world's second-largest software vendor by pulling in $29.6 billion in software revenue during 2013, according to analyst firm Gartner. "Global trends around big data and analytics with business investment in database and cloud-based applications helped to drive Oracle's top-line growth," Gartner research vice president Chad Eschinger said in a statement.
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Class action lawsuit v General Mills over all-natural claims and GMOs can proceed, says judge
2014-03-31 17:40:56| Agriculture - Topix.net
The issue of whether GMOs belong in 'all-natural' products is at the center of a growing number of class action lawsuits against big food brands from General Mills to Heinz and Campbell Soup.
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World Not Ready for Climate Change, New Report Says
2014-03-31 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: On Monday morning in Japan (Sunday evening on the U.S. East Coast), the world's leading body of climate scientists will release a major report on the impacts of climate change, with the goal of spurring world leaders to act more decisively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "Observed impacts of climate change are widespread and consequential," the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) write in a draft version of the new report, which was leaked online. The final report...
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World Is Ill-Prepared for Global Warming Impacts, UN Says
2014-03-31 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Global warming is depleting fresh water and crops, destroying coral reefs and melting the Arctic, the United Nations said today in a report that concludes the world is ill-prepared to face many new threats. Climate change has brought key risks that endanger lives and health worldwide, including storm surges and coastal flooding worsened by rising sea levels; infrastructure destruction and the disruption of power networks, communications and health services by extreme weather, and the depletion...
Asia will bear brunt of climate change, UN panel report says
2014-03-30 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: From small islands to big continents, from the tropics to the poles, climate change is already leaving its mark, damaging crops, spreading diseases and acidifying oceans, says a new blockbuster UN climate science reportreleased in Japan on Monday. The assessment by the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also warns that the world is ill-prepared and if action is not taken soon, risks could become unmanageable. Asia, the report says, will bear the brunt of climate...
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