Computerworld - Apple will again offer discounts this week on "Black Friday," the mega shopping day after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. A notice today on Apple's online store touted the one-day event, which is to start Friday, Nov. ...
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Apple will manufacture one of its Mac lines exclusively in the U.S. by the end of 2013, CEO Tim Cook told NBC and BusinessWeek in interviews made public today. Analysts saw the move as primarily a public relations ploy, a reaction to ...
Apple today said it has sold 2 million iPhone 5 smartphones in China since Friday, setting an opening weekend sales record for the country. The announcement was Apple's first to trumpet sales in the People's Republic of China (PRC), as ...
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Barclays Clean Solutions Conference and Lazard Capital Markets Conference Exploring LED Markets BOSTON, MA, May 29, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Digital Lumens, developer of the industry's first LED-based Intelligent lighting ...
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Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year, an analyst said recently. Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets said that his checks of Asian computer manufacturers -- the ...
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Apple kick-started pre-orders of the iPad Mini early today, and within hours, sold out the white model in all three Wi-Fi configurations. Pre-sales for the iPad Mini -- at 7.9-in., Apple's first downsized tablet -- started just after ...
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The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
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Computerworld - Apple's suppliers had a banner July, providing yet another clue that the company has geared up production to release a new iPhone and a smaller iPad in four weeks, an analyst said. According to Brian White of Topeka ...
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Apple will introduce a smaller iPad in two weeks, and if it holds to past practice, will start selling the new tablet in early November, according to a report today. "That's more than enough time to make the holiday sales season," said ...
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Comparisons are useful in evaluating a company, but in the rare earth market, it's not as simple as a spreadsheet. With so many variables in the mix, no two projects are exactly alike, and each has its relative strengths and weaknesses. But ...
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The rare earths business isn't unlike a Formula One race, according to Carolyn Dennis, vice-president and senior analyst with Dundee Capital Markets. Companies are speeding to reach production and find strategic partners to grease the ...
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Apple today said it would start selling the new iPad in China starting Friday, July 20. As analysts expected, the move came quickly after Apple settled a dispute with a Chinese company over the iPad name. The tablet, which Apple ...
A new survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit finds when institutional investors interested in frontier markets were asked to choose two regions out of five, two-thirds see Africa as holding the greatest opportunity. Asia came ...
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RealCapitalMarkets.com, LLC (RCM1) releases significant updates to the RCM1 commercial real estate marketing and transaction management platform. The platform now supports non-English characters throughout asset presentations, including ...
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The local sharemarket's stellar finish to the year threatens to be curtailed by faltering US political efforts to avoid the"fiscal cliff"of$US600 billion tax rises and spending cuts automatically coming into effect on January 1. Despite ...
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