Concerns about the global economy and political unrest in Canberra are cruelling appetite for takeovers, with some of the nation's top dealmakers tipping companies to remain on the sidelines until economic clouds clear. In a sign of the ...
Webb deVlam has worked with personal care firm Kimberly-Clark on a new range of swim-time accessories to be stocked alongside the Huggies Little Swimmers brand in supermarkets The first in the range is the Little Swimmers Hygiene Mat ...
Tags: Packaging&Printing, Webb deVlam, Huggies Little Swimmers
Trent Energy Inc. celebrated the grand opening in Peterborough, Ont., of the Stanley Adamson Powerhouse—a hydroelectric project developed by Trent Energy (a subsidiary of Peterborough Utilities Inc.) together with Trent University. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The Monolith table design takes its inspiration from The Sentinel, a book by Arthur C. Clarke that went on to be made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick. A glass table top seems to balance miraculously on top ...
US-based food production and distribution company Del Monte is considering the sale of its canned food business as part of the plan to focus on pet food business. The canned food division manufactures canned vegetables, fruit cups and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has priced its underwritten ...
Tags: Solar Prices, Energy
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has announced an underwritten ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
WASHINGTON -- ARM Holdings has done well under CEO Warren East and there was no obvious reason for him to step aside. But by July 1, the new CEO, fellow ARM veteran Simon Segars, will be the new chief executive. East, 52, announced in ...
Tags: ARM, Chief Executive
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should cap the participation of carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless in upcoming spectrum auctions to ensure mobile competition going forward, representatives of consumer groups and smaller carriers ...
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Shuanghui International has agreed to acquire US-based pork producer and processor Smithfield Foods in an all-cash deal valued at $7.1bn, including the assumption of net debt. Shuanghui International is the majority shareholder of Henan ...
CSO - In January 2010, Google shocked the cyber world by confessing it had been the target of an advanced persistent threat lasting months and mounted by hackers connected to China's People Liberation Army. "[We] have evidence to suggest ...
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ONLINE retail titan Amazon announced overnight that it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to more than 170 countries and territories and its Appstore in nearly 200 countries. The move steps up the offensive of Amazon ...
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Horizon Oil has agreed to sell 40% of its assets in Papua New Guinea, which it hopes will underpin a mid-scale LNG project, to Japanese utility Osaka Gas for $204 million, the Australia-listed company said Thursday. The purchase price ...
Tags: Australia's Horizon, Osaka Gas
In recent years, companies around the world have faced a number of difficulties in their operations, such as the rising price of petroleum, the shortage of energy, the Eurozone debt crisis, increasing labour costs, environmental pollution, ...
The stalled initial public offering market has shown signs of life after Virtus Health was priced at the top of the range, raising $339 million in the biggest private equity float since KFC franchisor Collins Foods in 2011. After strong ...
Tags: IPO Market, Virtu, Health&Medicine