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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As the lowliest of the Indian sub continent markets, it was another difficult week of decline and fall in Alang as cash buyers and owners struggled to get their vessels delivered at previous high prices. Several as is deals with Indian ...
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According to commodities economist Ross Strachan at UK based Capital Economics, with global molybdenum production due to increase, and a slowdown in demand on the horizon, prices are set to fall in 2013. Stronger than expected 2013 ...
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Hills, Mich., December 10, 2012 – Guardian Industries Corp. announced that it reached a production launch milestone at its Krasny Sulin (Rostov region), Russia float glass manufacturing plant. The initial “ribbon pull” ...
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On the same day Microsoft loudly proclaims Windows 8 in New York, the aging-but-still-going Windows XP today quietly celebrated its 11th birthday. On Oct. 25, 2001, Microsoft launched Windows XP, unknowingly unleashing its most successful ...
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IDG News Service - Lenovo's ThinkPad team plans to release more ultrabook models, and remains "bullish" about the upcoming release of Microsoft's Windows 8, according to company executives, who also said on Monday that the famed PC unit ...
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Labor problems and low prices have platinum mines closing up shop in South Africa, and the potential for acquisitions is ripening. Senior Mining Analyst and Managing Director at Stifel Nicolaus in Toronto, George Topping believes that ...
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With so many moving variables in the rare earth space, how can investors evaluate investment opportunities? Siddharth Rajeev of Fundamental Research Corp. finds his top prospects by zeroing in on a specific material and tracking its growth ...
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Equity investing is squarely in a risk-off phase and few sectors have been hit harder than junior mining. Rare earth elements equities are no exception, but most of the materials themselves have not dropped nearly as much. The Critical ...
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Everyone involved with HTML5 on mobile devices needs to step up their efforts and solve issues with performance and monetization in order for the technology to reach its true potential, according to Facebook developer advocate Simon Cross. ...
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Cloud acquisitions paying off for Ellison Software and cloud revenue gave Oracle's financial figures a boost, but hardware sales continued to decline. For the second quarter of fiscal 2013 Oracle recorded revenue of $9.1bn, an increase ...
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Business Line reported that Reliance Industries, which acquired BP Plc’s Malaysian petrochemical oil and gas processing plant in Kuantan for USD 230 million in September, is bullish about its prospects in the South East Asian nation. ...
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The local sharemarket's stellar finish to the year threatens to be curtailed by faltering US political efforts to avoid the"fiscal cliff"of$US600 billion tax rises and spending cuts automatically coming into effect on January 1. Despite ...
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AUSTRALIAN shares ended a holiday-shortened trading session modestly higher today,with gains in the mining and financial sectors pushing the market to an 18-month high. The rise sets the market up to end the year almost 14 per cent ...
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(China Glass Network) Price of glass products in Shahe market began to drop in Monday this week and the drooping trend has spread all over the country. Declining range of glass products in Beijing is 0.5%-2.3%, Shenyang is 1.0%, ...
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