"The United States stands on the cusp of a dramatic revival and rejuvenation propelled by an amazing wave of technological innovation," writes Stanford researcher Vivek Wadhwa in a recent editorial in The Washington Post. The basic notion ...
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At the beginning of each New Year, I, like many others, like to take an inventory of my life - both personally and professionally. I think about which attitudes and behaviors have served me well in the previous year, and consider which ...
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Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) announced today the opening of its new Unconventional and Reservoir Productivity Technology Center at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) located in Dhahran Techno-Valley. The new center enables ...
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This year the Eurozone will experience annual GDP growth for the first time since 2011, but at just 0.9% the growth will not be strong enough to support a level of uplift in financial services that will drive further economic recovery ...
Tags: Eurozone Financial Services, Business Lending, Financial Services
The Lubrizol Corporation announces the opening of its new Innovation Centre in Singapore, the latest addition to Lubrizol's growing presence in Asia. The opening ceremony for the new laboratory facility marks another milestone in support ...
Sun Chemical Group has acquired the left over shares of the Inversiones Mundial (Grupo Mundial) in its Colombian joint venture companies Tintas and Sinclair. The Tintas/Sinclair Group sells printing inks and related graphic arts ...
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Given the rise in double digit inflation, soaring raw material prices and fuel cost, Secunderabad-based yarns producer Suryalata Spinning Mills Limited continued to find trading conditions difficult in the first six months of current ...
High-tech manufacturers are failing in their customer ERP strategies, according to an IDC whitepaper. The analyst’s “Manufacturing Insights Whitepaper: Get Customers Inspired – A Call to Action for High-tech ...
China will see a better trade environment next year partly due to rising external demand, as economic recovery in some developed nations may accelerate, the People's Daily reported Monday. "The trade environment will continue to improve ...
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Global average temperatures will rise at least 4°C by 2100 and potentially more than 8°C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced according to new research published in Nature. Scientists found global climate is more ...
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The exports of garments from China to the Asean region increased by 42 percent year-on-year during January-October 2013 period, according to the data released by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Textiles, China TexNet ...
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Singapore's growth quickened in 2013 and the country will "do well" going forward, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. Gross domestic product rose 3.7 per cent this year, Lee, 61, said in his New Year message today. That's in line with ...
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Sprint majority owner SoftBank plans to buy a majority stake in T-Mobile through Sprint with the apparent intent to combine the two carriers, Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported. The plan would a merged entity on a better competitive ...
China's Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday decided to reinvestigate its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on U.S. white-feathered broiler products in response to a WTO report that found China had violated certain rules. China will ...
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Six in 10 heads of Japanese companies expect the economy to have recovered half a year after this coming April's consumption tax hike, a Nikkei survey finds. The quarterly poll of presidents or chairmen at key domestic corporations found ...
Tags: Japanese companies, April's consumption tax hike, economy recovery