Rooms To Go will build a 1.1 million-square-foot showroom and distribution center here designed to be its main distribution hub for online customers in the East. The Seffner, Fla.-based Top 100 company will invest about $40 million in the ...
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Verizon Wireless has completed the initial rollout of its 4G LTE network, covering 95% of the U.S. population, and is now looking to reuse other spectrum for LTE and deploy small cells using the technology. On Thursday, in Parkersburg, W. ...
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Peru's Ministry of Production, Promperu and the ACP Group have signed an agreement to jointly promote exports of cotton garments from Gamarra to Brazil. As per the agreement, the goal is to achieve textile and garment exports of US$ ...
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Life sciences and diagnostics company Arrayit and India's DHK Medical Products have entered into an exclusive three-year distributorship agreement to sell Arrayit genomic tests in the country. As part of the agreement, DHK plans to offer ...
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After importing Tajikistan cotton for several years, China would now help the Central Asian country in combating pests that have lately started affecting the productivity of cotton. The Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, ...
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Airline IT departments are set to invest in business intelligence (BI) and mobile solutions over the next three years, in an effort to personalise passengers' air travel experience. That's according to SITA's fifteenth annual Airline ...
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According to the survey jointly conducted by LEDinside and AVANTI, the proportion that Chinese consumers can cognitive LED bulbs clear is only 25%, enhancing consumer awareness is still the key for the popularization of LED lighting. In ...
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The US company Louisiana-Pacific wrapped up its complete take-over of the Peace Valley OSB mill on 31 May. The mill was previously operated as a joint venture with Canfor. The transaction was originally supposed to close at the end of 2012, ...
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Panasonic launches expansion of its LED lighting business across Asia, Philips Lighting announced new Fortimo modules and licensing milestone, and Osram Sylvania and Comcast partner onadaptive home lighting. Phillips Lighting has ...
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The XL Foods' nationwide recall of beef products in 2012 over E.coli contamination was preventable and was caused due to lax approach towards food safety, according to an independent review initiated by the Canadian government. In 2012, ...
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Manufacturers searching for the skilled workers necessary to compete in the 21st century are actively participating in the effort to close the skills gap that exists. As part of an ongoing commitment to STEM (science, technology, ...
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Spirits consumption in Egypt will grow by 2.88% during 2011-16 as compared to 1.22% in the previous five years, according to a report by Canadean Wines & Spirits. The report, "The Future of the Spirits Market in Egypt, to 2016", says that ...
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Lenovo Group Ltd on Wednesday unveiled smart TV products developed with Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp amid reports that the Chinese company is buying Sharp's TV plant in Nanjing. Beijing-based Lenovo is planning to sell 1 million ...
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Microsoft is expanding its enterprise services in China with a new Global Service Delivery Center in the country, the second of its kind in the world, the company said Wednesday. The company is building the center in Chongqing, where it ...
The creator of popular open-source database MySQL, Michael "Monty" Widenius, wants to see the now-Oracle-owned product disappear from the earth within the next five years" - displaced by his own alternative, MariaDB. Speaking to Computing ...
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