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At the recent D: All Things Digital conference earlier this month, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt talked a lot about the savings that could be realized via a massive expansion of the so-called " Industrial Internet ," in order to reduce waste and maximize use of critical machines - such as power turbines - via sensors and other collected data.

Consulting firm Accenture Research projects the number of retail health clinics will increase as hospitals and other health care providers meet a great surge in demand under the Affordable Care Act.

Microsoft also awarded Accenture and Avanade with Partner of the Year in Spain and Germany.

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Young entrepreneurs from the G20 countries see themselves as the most dynamic source of technology innovation and expect their businesses to achieve strong growth and job creation in the next two years, according to a report by and the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance .

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According to the consulting firm Accenture, the number of retail clinics will likely double by the end of 2015 -- a trend fueled by the demand for care by consumers who will become insured under the health law.

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The negative reaction in-store clinics received from doctors when the concept first rolled out didn't come as a big surprise.

Accenture has been named HP AllianceOne Partner of the Year for Information Optimization and HP Software Systems Integrator of the Year at HP Discover 2013 in Las Vegas.

Accenture said in a report released Wednesday that a flood of newly insured patients from the national health care overhaul will help stoke demand for those clinics, which typically treat minor illnesses when a patient doesn't have a doctor or the physician isn't available.

DZ Comics & Gaming will open its first retail location next month at New City Center, NW 5 and Interstate 35, in Moore.

EXPANSION: The number of retail health clinics in drugstores and big retail stores will double to about 2,900 by the end of 2015, according to the consulting firm Accenture PLC.

Accenture will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 27, to discuss its third-quarter fiscal year 2013 financial results.

The number of U.S. retail health clinics is projected to double in the next three years due to the increasing demand of newly insured patients under healthcare reform, according to a new report released today by Accenture at the annual America's Health Insurance Plans Institute 2013 in Las Vegas.

Accenture Plc . is consistently winning deals. This time the company won a deal from one of the leading brewery companies, Carlsberg, to implement a SAP solution which will support six functional businesses in Western Europe.

Bonitasoft this week released its first major upgrade complete with numerous enhancements, including an easier and more intuitive interface designed to boost efficiency.

As fans of the late '90s Ben Affleck-Matt Damon film "Good Will Hunting" know, Cambridge, Mass., is often viewed as the province of what are locally referred to as "smaht kids."

Costco said sales at stores open at least a year, or same-store sales, rose 5 percent last month, coming in slightly below Wall Street forecasts because of lower gasoline prices.

"Reinvention" has become something of a buzzword and even a clich in recent years it pops up often throughout print and digital media, and for good reason.