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KFC owner's profits get China boost
2014-04-23 02:57:25| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Yum Brands, the owner of fast food chains KFC and Pizza Hut, reports an 18% jump in first quarter profit, helped by a rebound in sales in China.
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Parched California moves to boost water saving toilets, faucets
2014-04-22 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With California facing its worst drought in a century, state officials have fast-tracked first-in-the-nation water efficiency standards for new toilets, urinals and faucets, an action expected to save about 8.2 billion gallons of water the first year while cutting energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The draft standards, released late last week, would prohibit the sale of appliances in California that do not meet proposed standards, which are expected to go into effect in 2016. The standards...
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Dell launches virtual storage accelerator, aims to boost SAN performance
2014-04-22 18:35:23| InfoWorld: Top News
Dell released a new virtualized storage accelerator appliance called Fluid Cache for SAN on Tuesday, designed to help customers keep data-intensive applications working quickly under load. The announcement, which was made at Dell's Enterprise Forum in Germany, outlines a virtual appliance meant to eliminate some of the performance problems associated with using SANs for responsive, customer-facing applications. Fluid Cache uses the Flash memory inside a server to act as an I/O cache for SAN systems, boosting throughput.
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Pipeline delay gives boost to Obama's political base
2014-04-20 09:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The latest delay to a final decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline will reinforce a White House strategy to energize President Barack Obama's liberal-leaning base before fall elections in which Democrats risk losing control of the U.S. Senate. Environmentalists, worried about the project's effect on climate change, have put enormous pressure on the president to reject the pipeline from Canada's oil sands, staging demonstrations outside the White House and protests in states where he travels....
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E-Commerce Companies Find That Print Catalogues Boost Online Sales
2014-04-19 07:02:20| Apparel - Topix.net
Welcome to our new E-Commerce Insider newsletter, a morning email with the top news and analysis on the e-commerce industry, produced by Shoppers spend more money buying online after they've browsed lavish print ads, according to marketers who work for Neiman Marcus, Williams-Sonoma, and other retailers.
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