A biiger-than-expected trade deficit for January hurt the Australian dollar in the Asia session but overall trading was subdued. Australia posted a seasonally adjusted trade gap of $1.06 billion in January, compared with $688 million in ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that CEO & president Dr Drew Nelson has joined a high-level industry group to advise the European Commission (EC) on the implementation of key enabling technologies ...
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Sweeping changes to apprentice wages and conditions being pursued by unions would deter employers from hiring apprentices, the Australian Industry Group claims. The unions have put their claim for wage increases of up to 70 percent a week ...
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Fuyao Glass, the world's second-largest auto glass maker by sales, expects to see strong overseas sales growth in the years ahead with Europe and South America leading the way, according to its corporate chairman. "The European debt ...
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WASHINGTON - The federal government's automatic budget cuts, due to begin Friday, may accelerate cost savings measures already in place via sharing of services across agencies, IT consolidation, and an increasing reliance of off-the-shelf ...
Australian manufacturing showed some tentative signs of improvement in February with the rate of contraction across the sector easing in the month. The latest Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index ...
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The Lift Manufacturers Product Section (LMPS) Industry Group of the MHI has released an update of ANSI 29.1 titled ANSI MH29.1:2012-Industrial Scissor Lifts Safety Requirements. This standard was developed to provide a comprehensive safety ...
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Twitter has implemented DMARC, a standard for preventing email spoofing, in order to make it harder for attackers to send phishing emails that appear to come from twitter.com addresses. Twitter users are constantly targeted in phishing ...
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Google has released another promotional video for its widely-anticipated Glass project – the wearable device which takes the form of a pair of translucent spectacles that appear to enrich the user's experience of the world around ...
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GOOGLE'S revamping of its search formula last year failed so far to live up to its promise of discouraging consumers from visiting illegal music websites, an industry group says. A report released this week by the Recording Industry ...
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BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Are cyclists interested in sustainability? An industry group is looking to measure consumers' attitudes and behaviors before the Bicycle Leadership Conference holds a session on sustainability in April in ...
Prime Minister Gillard … ‘tough but responsible’ Business and industry groups have expressed concern at the federal government proposal to strip $1 billion in tax concessions from Australia’s biggest companies as ...
An industry group called the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (ICOMP) has claimed that Google's dominant position in online search and advertising was generated as a result of a "broad-ranging and illegal network of ...
Google has issued a lawsuit against BT in both the US and the UK over what it claims is an infringement of its patents. In 2011, BT launched its own legal action against Google for infringing six of its patents in a US court in Delaware. ...
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Innes Willox … call for rate cuts Australia's manufacturing sector contracted for the 11th straight month in January, prompting a call for further interest rate cuts. The latest Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of ...
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