Prudential Financial’s Individual Life Insurance business is planning to launch BenefitAccess rider on its PruLife Universal Protector policy for an extra premium. The optional rider allows policyholders to use the death benefit to ...
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Stevia First, an early-stage agribusiness based in California's Central Valley growing region, has developed enhanced steviol glycosides by implementing fermentation-based methods to less marketable steviol glycosides. The project, which ...
July 4,2013-Manitoba Hydro will be seeking public input in planning a route for a new transmission line in southeastern Manitoba called the Manitoba-Minnesota Transmission Project.The public engagement process will help identify and refine ...
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Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
MICROSOFT has debuted a "re-blended" version of the overhauled Windows 8 operating system released late last year. also previewed new office apps for its Windows Metro interface, but said they would not be released until next year. ...
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Building information modelling is becoming increasingly popular but may present problems for some lighting designers. Ruth Slavid explores the obstacles and outlines the solutions to help you find your way through the modelling maze ...
Austria-based food company Agrana has opened a new EUR70m wheat starch processing facility at its site in Pischelsdorf, Austria. This new facility marks an expansion of the current range of starch-based products at the site to include ...
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Ford SYNC® voice-controlled connectivity and MyFord Touch® touch screen technologies are attracting more customers and selling at a much higher rate than competitors, as MyFord Touch helps drive higher customer satisfaction with ...
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Nvidia's Shield is complementary to gaming consoles for now, but the company hopes that wide adoption of Android gaming ultimately could make the $349 handheld an alternative to Xbox and PlayStation. Nvidia Shield gaming handheld front ...
IBM has introduced the fifth generation of its semiconductor technology specialized for high-performance communications. The firm’s latest silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip-making process is designed to enable increasing amounts of data ...
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JoS. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. announces that net income for the first quarter of fiscal year 2013 was $8.1 million as compared with net income of $14.8 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2012. Diluted earnings for the first ...
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If ever you needed evidence of the growth of outsourcing, look no further than the page views the British Contract Manufacturers and Packers Association website attracts; in the last year, the figure has grown by a third to around 16,000 a ...
Switzerland-based food giant Nestlé has opened new laboratories at the Nestlé Research Center in Switzerland in order to study food-borne pathogens. The new facilities feature a high level of 'bio-containment', which means ...
SONY last night announced it would sell another two ultra-high definition TV’s in Australia – 55 and 65-inch models to complement the giant 84-inch set released last year. Instead of costing around the price of a car, some ...
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Saudi Aramco boosted its crude production to a record 9.506 million b/d in 2012, excluding blended natural gas liquids, up 5% from 9.068 million b/d in 2011, the company said in its latest annual report. "During 2012 at Saudi Aramco, we ...
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