US service sector contracts in January
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The nation's service sector contracted in January for the first time in almost five years, a trade group of purchasing executives said Tuesday.
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A look at some of this weekâs major business events coming this week.
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The U.S. Army plans within months to  break up Halliburton Co.'s contract to provide support services  for U.S. troops in Iraq -- valued at up to $13 billion -- and  open the work to competitive bids, The Wall Street Journal said  on Tuesday, citing an internal Army memorandum.
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Faced with continued customer foot-dragging on license renewals and deployment, Microsoft said Friday has decided to offer &quot;custom&quot; Windows NT 4.0 support contracts to enterprises that still haven&#39;t migrated to later versions of the network operating
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IBM will run the contract and provide mainframe and server consolidation and IT operations for the Texas state government. Contract partners Unisys Corp. will provide data center operations and facilities management.
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It's a new year and there's a new pay policy at the Defense Department.
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The U.S. government on Thursday  picked AT&T , Level 3 , Qwest , Verizon   and Sprint Nextel  for a contract worth up to $20  billion over 10 years to improve its telecommunications  services.
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Meet the season's hottest accessory: the nondisclosure agreement. By Mathew Honan from Wired magazine.
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It seems like the season of big contracts. Dell recently bagged a biggie from Philips and now IBM gains one from the Britainâs retail bank, Lloyds TSB.
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The service sector of the economy showed slower growth in January, as the rate of expansion in both employment and inflation pressures softened, the Institute for Supply Management said Thursday.
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The longtime partners are expected to announce a new deal that looks likely to cover business services.
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The US Postal Service has awarded SAP a $35 million contract to supply a new human-resources system. SAP has benefited from a series of big customer wins this year, showing strong revenue growth
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The pace of growth in the U.S. service  sector posted a surprisingly sharp fall in February, retreating  from January's eight-month high as new orders and prices paid  declined, according to a report released on Monday.
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Plus: SCO to cap legal costs...Novell sees weakness in IT spending...Salesforce reports rise in profit...Nortel to lay off 3,500.
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The US manufacturing sector contracted last month, the Institute of Supply Management says.
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SimpleX Data Technologies and Solutions Partners will together offer  XBRL services to companies listed in the US, the companies announced  today. An agreement between them was signed recently.  The SEC started a voluntary XBRL filing program in early 2005.
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Strikes planned for January 7, 14 and 17 after union ballot