Chinese scientists announced on Monday that they have developed a type of nanomaterial which can catalyze algae masses growing on water surfaces into inorganic earth. Chinese lakes are often plagued by catastrophic outbreaks of blue-green ...
Tags: Chemica, nanomaterial
Refining capacity expansions in China have been largely on track this year although the country's relatively weaker growth in oil demand could delay some projects and result in lower utilization rates, analysts said this week. Up to 1.3 ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral
Sims Metal Management expects tight ferrous scrap flows and US scrap processing overcapacity, two major headwinds impacting margins, to improve in its current fiscal year that ends June 30, 2014. The global scrap firm notes an improvement ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Mineral
Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
Tags: UNIX, Computer Products, software
Google on Tuesday shipped Chrome 29, patching 25 vulnerabilities and rolling out under-the-hood changes the company said would offer more relevant suggestions when users typed in URLs or search strings. The upgrade also sported a new ...
Tags: Computer Products, google, software
The Ukrainian Employers' Federation (FEU) has indicated that all Ukrainian imports, including but not limited to steel products, destined for Russia are being held up at Russian customs without explanation, while it has added that Russia ...
Tags: Trade War
Microsoft has resolved a problem that affected SkyDrive Wednesday, but technical issues with Outlook.com have proven harder to fix. The glitches surfaced at around 10 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday and the SkyDrive problem was declared ...
Tags: Microsoft, Skydrive Problem
Both sets of technologies recognize the growing use of the browser for richer interactions between users and services, over and above the viewing of static Web pages. “We still use the browser language, although most of what people ...
Piramal Glass, a cosmetics and perfumes glass manufacturing major reported over two-fold jump in consolidated net profit to Rs 25.77 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2013, helped by forex gains. Consolidated net sales of the ...
Tags: Construction, Glass
The large majority of people working in IT procurement are "significantly dissatisfied" with the way SaaS (software as a service) vendors define contract language related to security, a feeling likely to persist through 2015, according to a ...
Tags: Security Specifics
Canada's Methanex is "making solid progress" on its plans to increase its global methanol production capacity by up to 1 million mt/year by the end of this year, CEO John Floren said in a statement late Wednesday. In New Zealand, the ...
Tags: Methanex, Methanol Capacity
Protection of consumer rights still varies greatly between EU countries. Only 35% of Europeans are confident buying online from sellers in other EU countries and seven out of ten consumers do not know what do to when they receive products ...
Tags: Single Market, Consumers
Due to down market prices and stagnant real estate market, the majority of the associate companies have reported losses and face challenges in the first half of the year in 2013. According to data, the steel production of Vietnam Steel ...
Tags: estate market, Construction, Decoration
Chill winds are sweeping the Chinese liquor (baijiu) industry, and competition in the low and middle ranks of the market will persist as the government continues a crackdown on luxury official banquets, analysts said. "We believe the ...
Tags: Distiller, Chinese Liquor
In the first half of 2013, the EMS Group, with its companies combined in EMS-CHEMIE HOLDING AG and with global activities in the business areas High Performance Polymers and Specialty Chemicals, achieved an increase in net sales of 5.5% and ...