Australia said it had made "substantial" progress on UNESCO benchmarks for protection of the Great Barrier Reef Sunday in a report aimed at staving off a world heritage downgrade. Environment Minister Greg Hunt said a progress report ...
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With Windows 8 bearing a good share of the blame for the declining PC market, HP is falling back on Windows 7 for its latest marketing push. The world’s second largest computer maker recently began promoting PCs loaded with Windows ...
This year the Eurozone will experience annual GDP growth for the first time since 2011, but at just 0.9% the growth will not be strong enough to support a level of uplift in financial services that will drive further economic recovery ...
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It is not surprising that tire industry analysts are re-evaluating the stock of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. following the termination of its "merger agreement" with Apollo Tyres Ltd. on Dec. 30, 2013. Nick Mitchell, senior vice president for ...
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International credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed Luxembourg-based global steel giant ArcelorMittal's rating at 'BB+', with the outlook being stable. Fitch stated that the credit rating affirmation and the stable outlook ...
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Recently, bank of America Merrill lynch said, although the team of foreign exchange expect that the economic outlook is moderate economic recovery and inflation slow growth, but the forecast is faced with many risks. 1. The downside ...
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When it comes to removing weight from a Class 8 truck, how do you determine the value of a single pound removed? That's one of the questions Volvo sought to answer when optimizing its regional haul tractors for lighter weight. To find an ...
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Britain's biggest retailer Tesco has delivered "poor" third quarter results – with like-for-like sales down 1.5% – 18 months after launching its £1bn turnaround plan, according to City analyst Shore Capital. Tesco's ...
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Volcano Corporation (San Diego, CA) may be looking for a suitor as its stock has underperformed the expectations of many analysts. The company’s stock has lagged behind the S&P 500 and the Health Care Equipment & Supplies index in the ...
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The Co-operative Bank is to invest another £500m in upgrading its IT systems over the next three years as the Co-operative Group cedes control of its troubled bank to US hedge funds. The news was revealed as the Bank unveiled a ...
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"What's the one thing that you need to be really, really worried about over the next two weeks," Eric Starks, president of FTR Associates, asked attendees at the 27th Annual Conference on Transportation Innovation and Technology yesterday. ...
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China's appetite for coal, once seemingly unlimited, is starting to wane, and the effects are rippling far from the Middle Kingdom. With the world's second-largest economy, China in recent years has been driving demand for all sorts of ...
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According to new poll conducted on MacWorld, 64% of readers think that iOS 7 is great. However, there are some people who are not so keen. Like many Apple mobile users, I pressed the big Upgrade button on Wednesday night this week to ...
When Microsoft finally completes Steve Ballmer's last-ever super-soaraway acquisition, some 32,000 lucky Nokians will be magically transformed into Microsofties. For a company shrinking as fast as Nokia, it's amazing there are so many ...
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Microsoft is to buy Nokia's mobile phone business and license its patents in a deal worth $7.2bn (£4.6bn). Further reading Nokia whacked by another downgrade – Moody's rates Nokia four notches below investment grade Microsoft ...
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