Workers at transport company Toll have voted convincingly in support of protected industrial action, according to the Transport Workers Union (TWU). The result, announced by the Australian Electoral Commission, means that workers at Toll ...
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US based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Smith Electric Vehicles has signed an agreement with the China based Taikang Technology to establish a joint venture (JV) in Taiwan. The new JV will be responsible for the assembly and ...
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Automotive driveline components manufacturer cDriveline has expanded its partnership with the German vehicle maker BMW to supply front axle for BMW X Series Sports Activity Vehicles that will be used to convert the rear-wheel drive vehicles ...
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For its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 29 June 2013), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $293m, up 4.4% on $280.6m on last quarter and up 44.5% on $202.7m a-year ago. Fiscal Q1/2013 Q2/2013 ...
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You could spend a few hundred bucks on a new blender only to wind up with watery margaritas and smoothies that might better be called chunkies. Worse yet, your high-priced device could conk out after a few months of service. That's clear ...
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Further boosting its presence in the field of product marketing, Adobe is acquiring campaign management software provider Neolane for approximately US$600 million in cash. Based in Paris, privately held Neolane specializes in ...
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Leather supplier EuroLeather has inked an agreement with Italian leather producer Gruppo Mastrotto to market the company's Pronto brand in the U.S. EuroLeather President Giovanni Guidi said he already has begun stocking the upper-end ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Euroleather
The paper cup is one of the most common containers we encounter every day. Yet, as with many of the seemingly simple packages we routinely use, the best forming machines to make paper cups and paperboard canisters use advanced ...
Tom Butler, an electrician for the City of Newton Public Buildings Department, uses tape on a sensor to make an LED street light turn on. Newton, Massachusetts - City crews have installed a series of energy efficient LED street lights ...
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Trading Standards says that sharing of intelligence is key to fighting fakes, as MEP gets behind initiative. A MEMBER of European Parliament is supporting ToyNews’ Fight the Fakes campaign for the prevention of counterfeit toys. ...
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LAWS in Victoria should be changed so a teenager who texts an explicit picture of themselves to a friend is not be treated like pedophile, a report says. A parliamentary committee looking at the phenomenon of “sexting” has ...
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LET'S call it bragging rights. That's what shelling out $40,000 gets you when you buy Samsung's slick new S9 85-inch television. It's the latest set on the Australian market to offer so-called "ultra-high definition" picture quality, ...
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The hotly anticipated British Designers’ Collective at Bicester Village is back! Recording artist and British style icon Rita Ora will host the launch of the Collective on 2 May – featuring designers including Nicholas Kirkwood, ...
Training with power remains one of the most elite market niches in cycling: so expensive that even some ProTour teams limit their riders' access to power meters, keeping them under lock and key and lending them out for limited tests. In the ...
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LET'S call it bragging rights. That's what shelling out $40,000 gets you when you buy Samsung's slick new S9 85-inch television. It's the latest set on the Australian market to offer so-called "ultra-high definition" picture quality, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, TV