General Motors is planning to equip its next generation cars with eye and head tracking technology, aimed at increasing driving safety. The technology installed in the car will detect drivers head movement and alert them when they are not ...
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The toymaker has extended its partnership with the videogame franchise to roll out a full product launch. LEGO and Mojang are extended their partnership to bring a full range of LEGO Minecraft sets to market. The Danish toymaker already ...
Tags: LEGO, Full Minecraft Range, Toys
Medtronic isn’t the only medtech company facing criticism over potentially moving its headquarters overseas. Hospira is also taking flak—even though it is only rumored so far to be in talks with French company Danone for a ...
President Obama clearly doesn’t like Medtronic’s plan to move its headquarters to Ireland through the acquisition of Covidien. Medtronic’s $43 billion acquisition of Covidien would be the largest tax inversion deal yet. ...
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Medtronic officials apparently see the political blowback over their proposed $43 billion acquisition of Covidien as serious business. The company has paid $200,000 to lobbyists including former U.S. Sens. Trent Lott and John Breaux to ...
Sri Lanka’s single largest apparel exporter Brandix has enlisted the services of the USA headquartered Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), one of the world's Top 5 providers of executive education, in a major new initiative to ...
Financial Times reported that in 2014 the United States may be losing its status as the world's largest economy, giving way to China earlier than expected. Most economists had predicted China's economy will become the first in 2019. Since ...
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Talk about bringing back manufacturing to the US has been on the lips of many people for some time now. But, the buzz is contagious and has traveled overseas to European shores. In an effort to keep Europe competitive, discussions about ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
As tech clichés go, “big data” falls somewhere between “cloud” and “social” on the list of terms you’re probably tired of hearing — ideas so broad they mean hardly anything at all. ...
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Supply chain professionals rarely have a degree in tax law. That's too bad… because understanding international regulations is important and getting more important every day. "As country-level agencies issue regulations and increase ...
Government incentives for a pair of proposed nuclear reactors could cost U.K. taxpayers as much as £17.62 billion, thus exceeding the reactors' projected cost. The EC figure is a preliminary estimate included in an initial report to ...
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Global steel industry is growing in business, according to the Financial Times. Europe will lead the recovery of global steel. The rest of the world will also contribute to the steel growing even though China’s steel industry is ...
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House of Fraser has declined to comment on reports it is in advanced discussions with French department store group Galeries Lafayette over an acquisition of the UK department store retailer. Two industry sources told Reuters there are ...
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When a Chinese engineering firm sets off to build a road or a dam in a distant country, a Chinese bank is usually not far behind them. Bank branches bearing Chinese characters can be found on the streets of Lima and Warsaw, as well as Paris ...
Premier Foods is remaining tight-lipped about reports that the Mexican bakery Grupo Bimbo may acquire its troubled bread division, as the firm’s short-term prospects divided City opinion. Premier Foods' plan to seek a financial ...
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