Last week's Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair set an improved tone for the diamond market despite challenging conditions in the Far East. Overall, it should be considered a good show as dealer trading picked up after a very slow summer. After ...
Snapchat has launched its first-ever physical product: a pair of sunglasses. Today, Snapchat announced ‘Spectacles’, a pair of glasses with a built-in camera and, of course, Snapchat integration. At the touch of a button, you ...
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Soupman, makers of the best tasting slow-cooked small-batch soups in the world, has announced that it has shipped its newest variety, Shrimp Bisque, to a number of major grocery chains around the country including Publix, HEB, Acme, Shaw's, ...
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Sales slowed in August as the Olympics and outdoor activities diverted shoppers’ attention, reports BRC-KPMG in its latest Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales declined 0.3%, against a 0.1% increase in August 2015. This is ...
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The Jack Daniel Distillery will release a limited-edition, Tennessee whiskey to commemorate its 150th anniversary. The Distillery was founded in 1866 by young entrepreneur, Jasper Newton ‘Jack’ Daniel, whose name remains on ...
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Bare Snacks has launched new line of bare organic coconut chips in three flavors, including toasted, sweet ginger and coffee bean. An extension of the brand’s existing line of bare Coconut Chips, the new USDA Certified Organic ...
Shipment of mobile application processors for smartphones and tablets in the China market are expected to grow 18.6% in the second half of 2016 from those shipped in the first half of the year due to seasonal demand and inventory build-ups ...
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Hung Hing Printing Group announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2016, reporting a 6.2% decline in revenue to HK$1,323 million. Book and Package Printing, the Group’s largest business unit, and the Paper ...
White-box tablet shipments were down 15.3% from sequentially to reach only 13.8 million units in the second quarter because the quarter was a slow season for North America and Europe, while demand from emerging markets also remained weak ...
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) say that they have developed a new method for making brighter and more efficient green LEDs (R. Liu and C. Bayram, 'Maximizing cubic phase gallium nitride surface coverage ...
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Daimler has trialed a semi-autonomous Mercedes-Benz bus on a 20km drive through Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Future Bus undertook a manned trip via a section of a bus rapid transit (BRT) line at speeds of about 70km/h using the ...
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Hertz Global Holdings has announced that its Hertz Green Collection - known as Green Traveler Collection in the US - has been launched in Mexico with a fleet of 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles. Hertz Mexico is the first car rental ...
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Taiwan may have been gradually walking out of months-long economic recession for the time being, as the economic monitoring indicator regularly issued by Cabinet-level National Development Council (NDC) flashed a transitional yellow-blue ...
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Ghent University/IMEC in Belgium and X-Celeprint in Ireland/USA claim "the first III-V optoelectronic components transfer printed on and coupled to a silicon photonic integrated circuit" [Andreas De Groote et al, Optics Express, vol24, ...
Taiwan boasts a large number of globally competitive manufacturers of furniture parts, to enjoy solid presence in the global furniture supply chain.Despite global economic uncertainties, most of Taiwanese furniture parts makers have yet to ...
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