CIOs at midmarket and large companies in Europe and the U.S. will spend 4.5 percent more on IT products and services this year than in 2013 as they focus their budget priorities on cloud computing, ERP and analytics software. That’s ...
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The Nasdaq computer index Friday hit its highest point since November 2000, in the wake of the dot-com bust, despite mixed reports this week from the hardware and components sector. The Nasdaq computer index closed Friday at 1989.89, up ...
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In October the CEP-Indicator of Economic Sentiment for China declines to 4.5 points. The CEP-Indicator captures the expectations of financial market experts regarding the economic development in China over the course of the next twelve ...
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Durham, N.C.-based antimicrobial textile technology provider PurThread Technologies Inc. and Rochester, N.Y.-based Eastman Kodak Co. have signed a globally exclusive agreement with under which PurThread will embed Kodak's antimicrobial ...
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Google is set to invest an extra €450m (£385m) into its Finnish data centre, the web giant has revealed. Based in a mill formerly owned by paper company Stora Enso, the Hamina data centre in Southern Finland has already seen ...
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Two months before the expected third round of bidding for shale gas exploration rights, a Chinese firm on Friday successfully tested extraction equipment. The equipment will operate in complex geographic conditions, according to the ...
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China is expected to overtake Germany this year to become the world's top country in terms of newly added solar power generating capacity, an official from China's top economic planner said Wednesday. To deal with the overcapacity problem ...
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The UK is set to provide £160m technology boost for agricultural industries as part of the newly launched Agricultural Technologies Strategy. The initiative aims to make UK a world leader in agricultural science and technology. The ...
Design Museum is collaborating with the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to deliver a major new exhibition about the sweeping changes in manufacturing that are transforming our world. New manufacturing ...
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Gerber Scientific ended its fiscal year and its 65th year in business with 57 percent year-over-year earnings growth fueled by seven new product offerings, expansion of its four businesses into new geographies and the addition of nearly 900 ...
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Almost all of the pressure sensors in the market have a diaphragm made of stainless steel (e.g. flush-mounted pressure sensor) or made of other metallic or non-metallic materials such as ceramic. And most pressure sensors are add-on sensors ...
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US insurance brokerage firm, Hub International Insurance Services has appointed Mary Castiglia as senior vice president of its San Francisco commercial division. Operating from the company's newest locations at 3 Embarcadero, Suite 560 in ...
The Blackstone Group has pulled out of the race to buy Dell. The investment group, together with tech investors Insight Venture Partners and Francisco Partners, had made an original offer of $14.25 per share (£9.28). Further ...
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CEA-Leti spin off Aledia, has made its first GaN LEDs on 8 inch (200mm) silicon wafers. The cost of Aledia’s LED 3D chips based on microwires is expected to be four times less than traditional planar (2D) LEDs. What's more, Aledia ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has won the “Company of the Year” title at the inaugural ESTNet (a network for electronics and software organisations) awards. “It is a great honour to ...
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