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Shopping goes social, but beware the deluge
In the early 2000s, there was a website called Hot or Not that gave users two simple choices for rating the attractiveness of total strangers. Now imagine if you took that concept and added a da...
DATE: Aug 22, 2012
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Technology
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Q: What is a character map?
A: A character map allows us add symbols/characters that are not visually displayed on our keyboards.
You can find hundreds of characters, some examples would be the British pound £ or the registered trademark symbol ®. ...
DATE: Aug 22, 2012
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Technology
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Philadelphia Financial has established two new subsidiaries on the Island to provide life insurance products aimed at high net worth clients.
The parent company announced yesterday that Philadelphia Financial Life Assurance Company (Bermuda) Ltd and ...
DATE: Aug 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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NEW YORK (AP) — The tablet-computer market is like guerrilla warfare. One huge army — Apple — dominates the land, while a ragtag group of insurgents keeps raiding and probing, hoping to find some opening it can exploit.
With Samsung’s new Galaxy Note...
DATE: Aug 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Technology
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Former Newstead Belmont Hills managing director Clarence Hofheins has been hired as the new general manager at Cambridge Beaches Resort & Spa.
He replaces Mike Winfield, who retired as president and CEO of Cambridge Beaches last week, but retained hi...
DATE: Aug 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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BF&M jumped 45 cents (2.89 percent) on the Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday, trading 5,000 shares to close at $16.
Bermuda Commercial Bank dropped 25 cents (2.32 percent), trading 500 shares to close at $10.50.
Butterfield Bank traded 8,379 shares to...
DATE: Aug 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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Retail sales rose 0.5 percent in June driven by an increase in sales for food and liquor.
However after adjusting for the annual rate of inflation, measured at 2.9 percent in June, the volume of retail sales decreased by 1.1 percent, according to th...
DATE: Aug 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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Travel the world and you will find Bermudians living and working. Two are currently in Europe as part of RenaissanceRe’s development programme.
Jevon Mills, a senior network engineer within the company’s IT department is currently on a ten-month seco...
DATE: Aug 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Works
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Amlin’s Bermuda unit was responsible for more than half the company’s net earnings as the London-based insurer swung back to profit in the first half of 2012.
The group booked booked pretax profit of £184.5 million ($289.2 million) in the six months ...
DATE: Aug 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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So you have started your business and things are moving along as planned. Then you meet someone who suggests a great way to make your business even better. They agree to tell you their great secret to huge success, if you make them a partner and give...
DATE: Aug 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Works
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