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Beach showers shut off as California struggles drought
2015-07-11 02:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Starting next week, California parks will no longer offer showers for people to wash sand and salt from their bodies at the beach, part of a broader plan to conserve water as the state's years-long drought drags on. The most populous U.S. state is in the fourth year of a catastrophic drought that has cost billions to its agricultural sector and prompted its first-ever mandatory cutbacks in urban water use. "California is facing extremely severe drought conditions," State Parks Director Lisa...
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Amazon struggles to stitch up fashion
2015-07-09 05:23:14| IT Services - Topix.net
The click-clack that echoed through the loftlike fashion photography studio was the same click-clack that can be heard in fashion offices around New York City: Manolo Blahnik high heels on polished floors. In this instance they were being worn by Cathy Beaudoin, 51, when she paid a visit in mid-June from Seattle to the Brooklyn creative headquarters of Amazon Fashion , which Beaudoin oversees as president.
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Silicon Valley struggles to pitch water-saving tech to farmers
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Olivier Jerphagnon needed a customer. So he drove toward the farmland north of Fresno, with his marketing director by his side. They came to convince farmers that PowWow Energy's Pump Monitor software can manage irrigation via smartphone. They spotted a prospect off the side of Highway 99: a work crew near a massive pump in an unmarked almond orchard. A tall Frenchman with a boyish face and rapid-fire sales pitch, Jerphagnon, 40, can be hard to understand on the best of days. This would not...
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BlackBerry struggles persist
2015-06-23 16:40:51| IT Services - Topix.net
BlackBerry Ltd. delivered another loss in the first quarter as the company struggled to sell its smartphones, but investors appeared pleased with some of the headway made with its turnaround effort. The Waterloo, Ont.-based company's stock was ahead nine per cent to US$10.04 in pre-market trading in New York, as BlackBerry managed to grow its software licensing revenue by 150 per cent.
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NPR chief says network positioned for growth after struggles
2015-06-20 19:04:34| Telecom - Topix.net
After years of leadership changes and funding deficits, NPR's new president and CEO says the public radio network has turned a corner and is positioning itself to grow its already sizable audience, along with its journalistic content and funding from donors. Jarl Mohn, a longtime radio and television executive who created E! Entertainment Television, helped launch MTV and VH1 and formed his own venture capital firm, has led NPR for nearly a year.
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