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Is Wal-Mart Heading to An Organic Empire To Fuel Its Wild Oats Rollout?
April 14th, 2014
Wal-Mart’s bold entry into the booming organic food market sets a lofty goal for the company: offering a wide range of products bearing the coveted USDA certified organic seal at stores across the United States. But experts say that ...
Heartbleed Compromises Bitcoin Wallets: Digital Currency Also Built Using OpenSSL
April 14th, 2014
Bitcoin is the latest digital entity to be added to a growing list of organizations compromised by the Heartbleed bug. The Bitcoin Foundation said on Friday that the latest version of Bitcoin Core, the open source software that enables ...
Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload Sued By US Record Labels, Following Movie Studios’ Lawsuit, For Copyright Infringement
April 11th, 2014
Four major U.S. record labels have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Thursday against file-sharing website Megaupload and its founder, Kim Dotcom, three days after the company was sued by Hollywood’s major movie studios and the Motion Picture Association of ...
CySec: acquisition of licences
April 11th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following companies have successfully obtained the CySec licence as ASPs: MMG Trust (Cyprus) Ltd Pageserve Limited Forpost Corporate Services Ltd Therefore, they are ...
Exclusive: Microsoft, Apple diverge on bankrolling big patent buyer
April 11th, 2014
Patent buyer Intellectual Ventures has persuaded Microsoft and Sony to invest in its latest acquisition fund while Apple and Intel, which invested with IV previously, declined to participate, according to people briefed on the fundraising. The investment decisions by ...
China consumer prices rise, but industry deflation persists
April 11th, 2014
China’s consumer inflation rate increased in March as fresh food prices jumped, but persistent deflation in the industrial sector was another signal of weak demand and slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy. The consumer price index (CPI) rose ...
FASB Provides Guidance on Reporting Discontinued Operations
April 11th, 2014
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued new guidance on representing when a company or organization discontinues its operations. Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-08, Presentation of Financial Statements (Topic 205) and Property, Plant, and Equipment (Topic 360): Reporting Discontinued ...
31% of businesses expect to grow through M&A in next 3 years
April 11th, 2014
The Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) reveals that global M&A activity has risen from this time last year, with dynamic businesses leading the way. The results confirm that leaders of the world’s most progressive businesses view acquisitions as ...
Third of SMEs do not have a business plan
April 11th, 2014
A third of SMEs say they do not have a business plan despite evidence that those that do are consistently more profitable and more than twice as successful in achieving their goals, according to research from software provider Exact. ...
Regulators suggest firms take deep dive into audit quality
April 11th, 2014
While acknowledging that auditors are under unprecedented scrutiny, an international association of audit regulators is asking audit firms to analyze causes of problems in audits globally in hopes of finding remedies. Lewis Ferguson, chair of the International Forum of ...
