Continuing speculation about the future of the US Federal Reserve's asset-purchasing program in the wake of congressional testimony by Chairman Ben Bernanke sent the dollar sharply higher Wednesday, and augmented downward pressure on the ...
Tags: NYMEX Crude, Chemicals
In a gesture to push forward reforms in the world's most populous nation, the State Council - headed by Premier Li Keqiang - introduced changes to itself by starting to cut intervention in investment and production activities. In an ...
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has announced a program authorizing the repurchase of up to $75m of the firm’s common stock. Under the program, stock ...
Tags: TriQuint, Electronics
InfoSonics Corporation today announced the expansion of its ruggedized line of phones with the launch of its new verykool RS75 Smartphone. The RS75 is powered by a 1.0 GHz processor and the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system. ...
Tags: InfoSonics, RS75 Smartphone
Carter’s, Inc., the largest branded marketer in the United States of apparel exclusively for babies and young children, announced that its Board of Directors has approved a $300 million share repurchase authorization and instituted a ...
In order to promote Mulberry, Eri and Muga silk production in Assam, Government through Central Silk Board is implementing a centrally sponsored scheme viz “Catalytic Development Programme” (CDP) in collaboration with State ...
Tags: Silk Output, Textile
Aviation biofuel's newly minted ability to generate tradable US renewables credits, known as RINs, may be key to the industry's economics, according to market watchers. "The availability of RINs is a critical bridge to commercial ...
Tags: Biojet Backers, Chemicals
US based Texas Instruments (TI) has collaborated with the automotive parts supplier, Continental for mass production of the microcontrollers with Flash technology. Both the companies will jointly manufacture the 65nm ARM Cortex safety ...
Tags: Texas Instruments, Vehicles
Cubbie Station, located in Queensland’s southern inland and Australia’s largest cotton enterprise, has harvested around 220,000-bale cotton crop this season. This is the first harvest since the cotton enterprise was taken ...
Tags: Cubbie Station, Textile
The European Commission (EC) has approved the FrieslandCampina's acquisition of cheese specialist Zijerveld and its packaging unit Den Hollander Food from MYWO Food. On 7 January, FrieslandCampina agreed to acquire the two companies and ...
Calls to ban advertising to young children have been rejected. ISBA – the voice of British advertisers – rejected the calls from a pressure group for an immediate ban on the advertising of products aimed at children. The ...
Tags: advertising toys, toys
GE and Lufkin Industries Inc. announced a joint agreement whereby GE will acquire Lufkin Industries Inc., a provider of artificial lift technologies for the oil and gas industry and a manufacturer of industrial gears, for approximately $3.3 ...
Tags: GE, Lufkin Industries
Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) says that its board of directors has approved a share ...
Tags: Avago, 2012 Program
Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have created an artificial eye with a cosmetic pupil that can dilate and contract in response to light. "The prototype aims to solve the longstanding problem of eye loss victims having two ...
Tags: light, bright sunshine, Lighting
India’s Ministry of Steel has abandoned plans for four ultra mega steel plants of 10 million mt per year each, in face of opposition from provincial governments on issues of land and allocation of raw materials, a ministry of steel ...