The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has signed a £100m deal with Russia to export beef and lamb to the latter in the next three years. The deal, which was finalized by Russian Deputy Prime Minister ...
Tags: Meat, Agriculture
CyanogenMod, an open source alternative operating system built on top of Google Android, looks set to become an operating system in its own right after raising $7m (£4.3m) in funding. The smartphone operating system "mod" has ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google, software
Environment secretary Owen Paterson has succeeded in his mission to persuade Russian authorities to sign an export deal for British beef and lamb, expected to be worth £100M over the next three years. The DEFRA boss has signed a ...
Tags: Beef, Agriculture, Food
Japanese-German plastics machinery maker Sumitomo Demag Plastics Machinery is planning to expand annually its injection molding machines (IMM) production capacity at its Chinese subsidiary Demag Plastics Machinery. Featuring an investment ...
Tags: IMM Production Capacity, Packaging
A series of smart technical RFID clothing tags have been launched by DAILY RFID, a leading company which is dedicated to developing and producing technical RFID products, one of which is RFID Costume Hang Card - 03. The RFID costume hang ...
Tags: Smart RFID Costume
Health insurer Aetna has reported a net income of $536m, or $1.49 per share for the second quarter of 2013, with an increase of 17% and 13% compared to $457m, or $1.32 per share during the comparable period last fiscal. For the quarter ...
Tags: Health insurer, Aetna
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is to issue tenders for several IT services, at a combined estimated cost of £782m. In a prior information notice on the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) website, the MoJ explains that it ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, ICT Services
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has completed its rights ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Earlier this year, I wrote about how I considered the ICO's meagre £250,000 fine handed out to Sony for losing control of its servers and risking the theft of every man, woman and child's data on there as "a slap on the wrist". ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
International Kanbawza Insurance (IKBZ) has started offering new insurance services in Myanmar and is writing six different types of coverage, including life, fire, surety bonds, transportation, cargo and money secure. Kanbawza Group ...
It sounds like the latest instalment of a Hollywood franchise. The signs are that the third phase of the Wrap-led Courtauld Commitment to cut waste has been given high marks from the industry’s critics. And why? It appears to be ...
Tags: Philip Chadwick, Packaging
For first-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $8.3m, down 18.6% on ...
Drug discovery and early drug development company Trino Therapeutics has received more than €9m ($12m) funding from investors, including Fountain Healthcare Partners and founding investor, the Wellcome Trust, to advance the development ...
Tags: Trino, Colitis Drug
Including $0.4m from the March acquisition of Arieso, optical networking and associated semiconductor technology firm JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported net revenue of $405.3m for its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (to end-March), down 5.6% ...
SIG Combibloc bucked the revenue trend. Revenue for SIG increased by 10%, to $514m for the three month period ended 31 March 2013 compared to $467m for the three months to 31 March 2012. However, revenue decreased at Evergreen driven by ...