The growing adoption of the open cell business model in the LCD panel industry has generated different views on the future of the backlight unit (BLU) sector, said Wang Pen-Jan, chairman of Taiwan-based BLU maker Radiant Opto-Electronics. ...
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US-based Techne has agreed to buy Bionostics Holdings and its operating subsidiary Bionostics, for $104m in cash. The deal is likely to close in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 Bionostics manufactures control solutions that authenticate ...
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The Australian cane industry is enjoying a period of rejuvenation, helped by an increase in foreign investment. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen Source: The Australian This year's Australian sugarcane harvest has started in north Queensland ...
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Lenovo Group Ltd on Wednesday unveiled smart TV products developed with Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp amid reports that the Chinese company is buying Sharp's TV plant in Nanjing. Beijing-based Lenovo is planning to sell 1 million ...
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Facebook is gearing up for a new project to simplify its advertising platform, making it easier for marketers to decide how to place ads across the site. One of the plan's major goals is to reduce redundancies in the 27 different types of ...
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US internet retailer Amazon is opening a central London office, bringing 1,600 jobs to the capital. Amazon will move several hundred existing employees from the company's current offices in Slough to the new 12-storey, 210,000 sq ft ...
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Cotton Australia has welcomed the Queensland Government's announcement for new water licenses in north-west Queensland, which may pave the way for additional cotton-growing areas in the state. Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and ...
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KingsIsle Entertainment released two new worlds, Marleybone and Aquila, for its massively multiplayer online family game, Pirate101. The release also includes numerous new features. "This is a substantial update to Pirate101 – ...
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Transparent and translucent ceramics are on the verge of being put to industrial use as new optical materials that offer great potential. As part of the publicly funded research project OptokeraMat, SCHOTT Research and Development has laid ...
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Rieter handed over the first Com4jet license in China: Yangtse Spinning has recently been made a licensee of Rieter Com4jet yarns. During the official ceremony Mr. Heiner Eberli, Head of Sales Rieter China, officially handed over the ...
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ING US’ Insurance Solutions business has named Dave Wilken as head of individual life distribution team, who will report to Butch Britton, chief executive officer effective from 1 June. In his new role, Wilken will succeed Dan ...
Invoking the success of Apple's game-changing iPhone and iPad, CEO Tim Cook has hinted that Apple will introduce "exciting new product categories" starting this fall and through the end of 2014. Speaking on the company's quarterly ...
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New design options with mid-power LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors Osram Opto Semiconductors now offers the mid-power LED Duris P5 in color. The five new versions have impressively high luminous efficacy from a compact form factor, ...
HP can stake a bigger claim in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market by creating an enterprise-friendly rival to Amazon's 'consumer' cloud, according to the head of the firm's Converged Cloud unit, Saar Gillai. HP is in the ...
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ODVA has launched an "initiative for process automation" in cooperation with major suppliers to the process industry, including Cisco Systems, Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric to further accelerate adoption of ...