Up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has hired Hugo Barra, former Google vice president for Android product management, to lead its expansion worldwide. The hiring of Barra is a high-profile move for Xiaomi, a company that only ...
Tags: Computer Products, smartphone, Xiaomi
Privacy and digital rights groups have dug in for a longer fight against massive surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency, even after the House of Representatives voted last week against an amendment to curtail the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
It is reported that despite of the sanction and blacklist by the United States, Iran’s Mahshahr Petrochemical Company is going to expand its production with the assistance from Turkish company and Korean company. It is said that ...
Tags: Petrochemical Company, Mineral
What does it take to shake the Chinese market? If stock turmoil in Shanghai and talk of bank default don't strike fear in the heart of the nation, images of a metropolis falling into a chasm will perhaps do the trick. An image from the ...
Tags: Cash Squeeze, Banks
The US on Friday identified eight petrochemical companies it says are owned or controlled by the government of Iran and are therefore subject to sanctions. The US State Department also sanctioned two companies "for knowingly engaging in a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil
Media reports said that Qihoo 360 Technology Co., Ltd (NYSE: QIHU) planned to wholly acquire Sogou and has reached cooperative framework. The news aroused wide attention but was immediately denied by CEO of the acquisition target. In ...
8:02 am, April 20, Ya'an, Sichuan Province, a strong earthquake happened. The disaster shows no mercy but people are charitable. Although Sichuan is thousands of miles away from Shanghai, the two places are close at heart. For days, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, yaan
A key U.S. lawmaker has unveiled plans for a comprehensive review of the laws surrounding copyright in the United States to determine whether they are still relevant in the digital age. Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican and chairman of ...
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A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, leaving at least 113 people dead and more than 2,600 injured, nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across ...
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Fixtures for shipments of more than 190,000 mt of heavy naphtha bound for Asia from the US Gulf Coast show that the arbitrage window has reopened to meet firm demand from Asia, trade and shipping sources said Friday. It marks the second ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, gasoline market
PPR has changed its name to Kering. The name change will be subject to the approval of the General Meeting of Shareholders of the Group, which will be held June 18, 2013. Since 2005, PPR has undertaken a major transformation. The new ...
Tags: Apparel leader, luxury brands, clothing
China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition (cippe), a regular gathering in petroleum and petrochemical industry and a high-quality exhibition which gets the authentication from UFI in Mainland China, ...
Tags: Textile, Cippe2013, Petroleum&Petrochemical
Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Late Monday, a group of senators and ...
The author of a successful White House petition calling on government officials to legalize the unlocking of mobile phones has turned his attention to broader reform of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Sina Khanifar, the ...
Tags: mobile phone, unlocking, Digital Millennium Copyright Act
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of smartphones. The White House on Monday agreed with petitioners who asked the Library of ...