The LED industry gained a foothold for growth in the parts and materials industry after LED technology was applied to the TV backlight unit (BLU). The industry is now about to advance again with the development of the LED lighting, an end ...
Tags: LED Ingot Market, Lights
In a spa that would make most create time for a day of relaxation, the Spa at the Viceroy in Miami?uses 28,000-square-foot to entice you into a day (or week) of nothing but relaxation and wellness. Using a pop of color the designer Philippe ...
Japan, a net importer of low sulfur fuel oil, exported more fuel oil in the week ended April 13 than it has in the last 20 months due to dwindling demand for the product from the country's utility companies, data released Wednesday by the ...
Tags: LSFO Exports, Chemicals
Intel reported a drop in profits and revenue for the first quarter, as the biggest PC market slump in recent memory weighed on its business. Intel reported a profit of $2.05 billion for the quarter ended March 30, down 25 percent from a ...
Tags: PC, software, Computer Products
Social media sites such as Facebook are not just for singles looking for dates or college kids. In fact, social media marketing is a must for almost all pet enterprises. In addition to the site's high visibility, it's a great way to ...
Tags: pet, pet business
Once a white-hot PC product that sold in the tens of millions of units annually, netbook computers are now marking their final days, with the rise of tablets causing their shipments to wind down to virtually zero after next year, according ...
Tags: Net Loss, Product Set
THE ailing personal computer market is getting weaker, and it's starting to look like it will never fully recover as a new generation of mobile devices reshapes the way people use technology. The latest evidence of the PC's infirmity ...
Tags: PC, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
U.S. television shipments are forecast to decline for a second year in a row in 2013, but growth will resume next year as the liquid crystal display television (LCD TV) segment regains some of the strength it had lost in the past year. ...
Tags: TV Market, Electronics
The ICE Brent front-to-second month spread fell into contango during afternoon US trade Friday, the first contango between the two contracts since July 2, 2012. ICE May Brent was down $2.50 at $103.84/b after hitting a fresh eight-month ...
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released estimates on cotton planting intention of US farmers in 2013. Cotton growers intend to plant ...
Tags: US cotton, Cotton, cotton planting
Distillate futures closed US trading sharply higher Wednesday, holding onto boosts seen in the wake of an unexpectedly bullish inventory report released in the morning by the Energy Information Administration. NYMEX April heating oil ...
Tags: NYMEX, Oil Futures, Distillate Markets
Revenue of the global Consumer Electronics (CE) device industry fell by two percent in 2012 to US$729 billion, as the strength in smartphones and tablets were not able to offset broad-based softness in consumer demand for other device ...
BlackBerry shares fell for the second day in a row after a disappointing US launch for the Z10 saw investment firm Goldman Sachs downgrade its rating for the Canadian firm. The downgrading comes just days before BlackBerry is set to ...
Tags: Blackberry, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics, smartphone
Suntech Power's epic plunge from solar module dominance to bankruptcy comes as the result of misplaced investments, a misguided pricing strategy, anti-dumping action in the US and a potential new willingness by the China government and ...
Tags: solar module, solar, Suntech
The downturn in German particleboard exports slowed a little between October and December 2012 after the second and third quarters had ended with a drop in shipments. Preliminary figures released by the German Federal Statistical Office ...
Tags: Particleboard, Construction, Decoration