When it comes to office equipment,we tend to get new shiny toys long before we get rid of outdated stuff.This is partly because it's always a bit nervewracking to toss out the old technology before we're sure the new gizmo will work,and ...
If you asked for three words to sum up Britain in the 21st century, a pessimist might come up with 'lonely', 'busy' and 'aging'. Government figures indicate the number of single-person households is increasing by more than 160,000 a year, ...
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An initial European monoethylene glycol contract price for December was settled at Eur1,048/mt ($1,354/mt) FD Northwest Europe Friday, industry sources said. The figure represents a fall of Eur22/mt on the November CP. The settlement ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, is sponsoring the lighting industry's first PlugFest in conjunction with the Illuminating ...
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Indorama Ventures (IVL) has completed the previously announced acquisition of the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) assets of PT Polypet Karyapersada in Indonesia. The deal was first announced in March 2012. According to IVL, the deal ...
PTT Global Chemical Limited, Thailand's largest and Asia’s leading integrated petrochemical company, has announced that its mono ethylene glycol (MEG) plant at Map Ta Phut in Mueang Rayong District would commence operations next ...
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Royal DSM, a life sciences and materials sciences firm based in the Netherlands, has completed the acquisition of Ocean Nutrition Canada, a supplier of fish-oil derived nutritional products to the dietary supplement and food and beverage ...
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Paraxylene (PX) prices went down in the Asian market. In S E Asian region, PX prices declined in the range of US$ 1515/ton to US$ 1520/ton. In F E Asian market, PX prices were offered at US$ 1500/ton. PX imported from Taiwanese market ...
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Computerworld-Hewlett-Packard says it will aggressively seek recompense for alleged fraud on the part of U.K.software vendor Autonomy,which HP acquired in a$10.3 billion deal last year.HP said accounting improprieties by Autonomy were to ...
Tags: HP, Autonomy Deal, software
The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China issued the business in China textile city during the month of September 2012. According to the monthly statistics, in September, 2012, the total sales volume of the textile markets ...
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Soraa will sponsor the lighting industry's first PlugFest in conjunction with the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York City (IESNYC) at their annual Control This! Event, to remove barriers to the rapid adoption of LED lighting. ...
At the same time, Coca Cola is opening a new plant in the country, located in Heidelberg, southeast of Johannesburg which will fill Coca Cola's Valpré Spring water using the recyclable packaging. The 100% recyclable ...
Tags: Coca Cola, Plant Bottle, South Africa, new plant
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard has called in the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after uncovering what it claims are accounting irregularities at intelligent-search software vendor Autonomy, which it acquired for $11.1bn (£7bn) in August ...
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HP claims to have been wilfully misled by'former'members of Autonomy's management team in the lead up to its acquisition and has now written$8.8bn off of the company's value. The announcement of the write down came in the firm's fourth ...
Tags: HP, Autonomy's management team, SEC, Meg Whitman
Hewlett-Packard is taking an $8.8 billion charge as a result of what it called serious accounting improprieties that occurred at U.K. software company Autonomy before it acquired the firm in 2011. Taking the charge into account, HP ...
Tags: HP, software, enterprise search engine, PC