Speculation on a possible deal for Savvis cropped up following other signs of consolidation in the Web hosting and data center sector.
In the data center sector, growth is derived from both consumers and corporations who are accepting and integrating more and more new devices and applications into their personal lives and business operations, resulting in ever greater computing needs.
Negative manufacturing and service sector data released this week had led some to speculate that the Bank might decide to cut rates this month.
Sector data suggested the strongest increase in available temp job roles was seen in IT and computing, while engineering and construction saw a marginal rise.
Recent water sector data suggests that claims of considerable progress towards Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets is sadly premature, as some like myself have suggested elsewhere.
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Given improved housing data the construction sector became the most overvalued by 14.2% with consumer staples close behind at 13.4% overvalued on the talk of strong Black Friday holiday sales.
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The latest weak eurozone services sector data did little to improve stock market sentiment, already hit by the indication overnight that the US Federal Reserve is not considering a further round of quantitative easing (QE) to help boost the American economy.
Creating a tool that combines both public and private sector data about housing, safety, the environment or even the potential for a natural disaster can be help those 35 million people make a more informed choice when looking for a new home.
Such standards will be aided by a requirement for measurable security sector assistance objectives, appropriate data collection of the impacts and results of security sector assistance programs, and improved efforts to inform decision-making processes with data on what works and what does not work through impact evaluations when permissible.
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Third, we worked to highlight and stimulate new uses of these liberated data by private-sector companies, entrepreneurs, and non-profits.
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Publication of the data angered public-sector unions, which claimed it put their members at risk of theft or kidnap.
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There is more data on the manufacturing sector coming Thursday with the Empire State Manufacturing Survey and Philadelphia Fed Survey.
There was more positive data on the housing sector last week, even though the NAHB Housing Index dropped from 47 to 44.
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On Monday we get new data on the manufacturing sector with the ISM Manufacturing Index as well as the PMI Manufacturing Index.
On the supply-side data, industrial-sector output also increased for two consecutive quarters.
The March data showed the services sector, which makes up around 70% of the country's economy, saw the highest number of layoffs.
There was plenty of new data on the housing sector this week, and the latest new-home sales figures will come out later today.
These sources have been combined with agricultural output data and employee jobs data for the public sector to provide a measure of change in local economic activity.
Data on private-sector job growth in June handily topped estimates.
Private-sector jobs data showed 209, 000 jobs were added in March.
Among industries, the most aggressive growth rates are shown by the financial sector and data-intensive science, with compounded annual growth rates (CAGRs) of 95 percent and 70 percent, respectively.
The health law notwithstanding, the Physician Compare experience suggests the public might be better served in some instances if government provides data while the private sector analyzes it and presents it electronically.
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The index has been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of output from the production, services and construction sectors combined with agricultural output data and employee jobs data for the public sector.
Data on the property sector show that despite double-digit declines in property sales, investment remains resilient nationwide and picked up as expected in the poorer central and western regions rather than along the expensive, and built-out coastlines in cities like Shanghai.
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Building on the success of the Green Button initiative which is providing consumers with secure access to their own energy data and has facilitated the voluntary release of energy-use data in computer-readable form to encourage private-sector innovation the Energy Data Initiative aims to harness the power of energy data through a combination of technology and ingenuity.
The Round 2 MyData team will work with public sector and private sector organizations to continue to expand the ability for Americans to securely and privately access their own data from wherever it might be, and encourage the development of private-sector tools and services that help people utilize their own data for their own benefit.
In the public sector, Fast Data approaches are helping organizations develop integrated fast response systems.
Make no mistake, business intelligence is big business, with data analysis the fastest growing sector in the BI market.
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There was certainly enough of a mixed salad of data to see the private sector increase doubts about the sustainability of the recovery.
If we open the doors of government to the private sector and make data accessible, we can jump-start a new era of social innovation.
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