Sport Chalet, Inc. is reporting a 2.8 percent sales decrease in its first quarter, which ended June 30, compared to the same period last year. Sales came in at $81.5 million, down from $83.8 million last year. The company's net loss for the ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, Sporting Goods, Recreation
Across the country and around the world, the face of retail is changing fast with kiosks and pop-up stores leading the growth trend. The challenge for manufacturers, established brands, small business owners and major retailers is how to ...
Tags: Retailers economy
Apple unveiled its long-rumored “budget” iPhone on Tuesday, but it’s not as cheap as some had expected. The lower-cost iPhone is actually quite expensive, at least in China, a vital market where Apple has been struggling ...
Before Apple announced its lower cost iPhone 5C, some had speculated the C could stand for China, a vital market for the company’s future growth. But on Wednesday, consumers in the country appeared less than thrilled with the new ...
Frank Baitman, the CIO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was at the Amazon Web Services conference here praising the company’s services. His talk was on the verge of becoming a long infomercial, when he ...
Tags: Cloud Industry, Standardize
Systems management software vendor BMC Software has finally completed the deal that will take into private ownership. The $6.4bn deal will see BMC fall into the hands of private equity companies Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital. ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Networking giant Cisco is to buy scalable solid state memory system provider Whiptail in a deal worth about $415m. According to Cisco, the deal would strengthen its Unified Computing System (UCS) strategy and allow it to better support ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Nichia wins round in LED IP battle with Everlight, Dominant says it settled an IP skirmish with Osram, Cree introduces a 93-CRI SSL A-lamp, and Silver Spring partners with Sunrise Technologies on adaptive controls. The global LED ...
Tags: Lighting, LED Business
NGC Software announced that Grupo Karim’s, a diversified global company with core businesses that include private-label apparel manufacturing, has selected NGC’s fashion PLM and Supply Chain Management (SCM) solution. Grupo ...
Tags: NGC Software, Textile
Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Canada-based Crailar Technologies Inc. has announced plans to acquire a European fiber dyeing facility that has been in operation for more than 30 years in one of Western Europe's most prolific flax-growing ...
Tags: Textile
TransRe, a global reinsurer wholly owned by Alleghany, has selected MetricStream to provide a consolidated approach for an integrated, flexible solution for its risk and compliance management needs. MetricStream's federated information ...
Tags: TransRe, MetricStream Software
Are you planning to start manufacturing plastic products or expand an already existing business? Or are you replacing your old rotomoulding machinery? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, read on….. We are the NA Group of ...
Tags: Water Tanks, Rotomoulding Machine
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia was a defensive move to keep the Finnish phone maker from going under or falling into the hands of an Android-first rival, several analysts argued this week. “Had Nokia abandoned Windows Phone, ...
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There were 90.39 million handsets sold in the China market during second-quarter 2013, slipping 0.2% sequentially but growing 41.8% on year, and 77.11 million of the units sold were smartphones, increasing 2.4% sequentially and 56.8% on ...
Tags: Smartphone, China market
China’s Xiaomi is bringing the low-price strategy that has driven its success in mobile phones to the country’s smart TV arena with a new 47-inch television that it says is the most affordable on the market. The Xiaomi TV runs ...
Tags: Smart TV, Smartphone