For some reason, most investors know not to take analyst equity ratings as absolute guarantees of future risk.

FORBES: At Odds Over S&P

Spokesman Andrew Hanson said all VION employees would transfer over and although 2 Sisters could not give the workforce any "absolute guarantees", there were no plans for immediate changes.

BBC: 2 Sisters

"As we sense in real time more and more about the individual, such as moods and behaviour, we need to provide near absolute guarantees that the information will not be subject to theft or attack, down to the silicon melting and still not giving up its data, " says Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker.

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