Google has reportedly launched an expansive effort to bring wireless networks and affordable computing to emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, moves that could bring the Internet to a further billion people. The ...
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 5/16/2013 6:31:56 PM DuPont celebrated the silver anniversary of its global packaging awards program Thurs. night, May 16, granting top honors to U.K.-based design firm ...
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DuPont celebrated the silver anniversary of its global packaging awards program last night, granting top honors to U.K.-based design firm pi 3 for AidPod, which delivers life-saving medicine to remote sub-Saharan villages. This unique ...
Luxembourg-based energy pipe and tube manufacturer Tenaris has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013, registering a net profit of $423 million, down six percent compared to the corresponding quarter of 2012. In the ...
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South Africa-based Aspen Pharmacare has agreed to acquire Nestlé’s infant nutrition businesses in Australia and South Africa for $215m, as part of its efforts to strengthen its presence in Australia, Latin America and ...
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Etisalat Group’s Atlantique Telecom on Wednesday announced that it has signed a five-year, multi-country agreement with Ericsson, which will now manage the telco’s African mobile networks. Atlantique said that the number of ...
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The business yesterday reported a 16% hike in annual sales to euro 914m for 2012, and said that it is planning to reach euro 1.5bn turnover by the end of 2015. The growth figures were helped by a 6% expansion in the overall packaging ...
Canada-based Paladin Labs has introduced a self diagnostic test, designed for the detection of bacterial vaginosis and trichomoniasis, in Canada. The VagiSense test, which the company claims to be the Canada''s only over-the-counter ...
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Mobile phone operators will make more revenue from data use than voice calls by 2018, according to a new report from mobile operator body GSMA. The report comes as Mobile World Congress (MWC), The GSMA's annual mobile device convention, ...
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Fizik has produced 15 custom saddles in different shades of red and is auctioning 11 of them with proceeds going to World Bicycle Relief. The saddles are on display at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, which kicked off Friday in ...
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Old Mutual has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Oceanic Life, the life assurance operations of the former Oceanic Bank in Nigeria. Financial terms of the transaction, which was originally announced in February 2012, have ...
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Microsoft is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations, as part of a long-term strategy to spread mobile telephony and ...
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Microsoft has announced that it is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations. The move comes as part of a long-term ...
Azuri, the developer of Indigo pay-as-you-go solar power for off-grid markets, has secured a £1m working capital loan from Barclays to accelerate the deployment of its Indigo home solar systems, transforming the lives of thousands of ...
When your country wears more Depends than Pampers, economic disaster is soon to follow. In 2012, adult diapers outsold baby diapers in Japan. The statistic is an unnatural stunner and points to a population chart that has literally been ...
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