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Government of Rio de Janeiro | March 09, 2022

Rio de Janeiro will gain a stock Exchange for the purchase and sale of carbon credits and sustainable assets related to energy, climate and forest. Governor Cláudio Castro signed, on Tuesday (August 03), in New York, a protocol of intentions with Nasdaq and Global Environmental Asset Platform (GEAP), in order to take the first steps towards the implementation of a trading platform. The agreement guarantees Rio the leadership in the green economy. This partnership will provi...

Walmart | May 26, 2020

Walmart de Mexico paid $358 million in taxes after talks with the Mexican government over an even larger sum authorities had aimed to charge the retailer for the sale of a restaurant chain, the company said on Monday. The pact comes as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador seeks to tighten tax enforcement in a country with the lowest take in the 36-nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. On Monday, Lopez Obrador said collection was up this year from the first five months o...

Leaptree | June 02, 2020

Leaptree, an Irish cloud-based software company building revenue workforce-related products using powerful AI, has recently announced a formal partnership with Carahsoft, the leading US Government IT Solutions provider based in Virginia, USA. Carahsoft will become the primary distributor of Leaptree Optimize in the Federal, State, and Local Government sectors of the USA. This follows the recent contract award for Leaptree Optimize with a large US Federal Agency....

The Defense Information Systems Agency | March 25, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic grows the ranks of teleworkers, the Defense Information Systems Agency is imploring Defense Department employees to take advantage of the agency re-upping its home-use antivirus program with vendor McAfee. “Recognizing a need, DISA and the DoD have renewed their antivirus home use programs,” reads a news bulletin the agency posted Monday. “The DoD antivirus software license agreement with McAfee allows active DoD employees to utilize the anti-virus s...