Siemens may be saying Auf Wiedersehen to its healthcare business, but won’t be taking it public anytime soon. The German giant announced in November that it would legally separate its healthcare business from the rest of the ...
Tags: molecular biology, x-ray equipment, Health
According to CEPEA/ESALQ, most companies continue to refrain from closing new cotton trades due to the nearness of Christmas vacation. Only a few players are operating in this end-of-the-year period in the Brazilian cotton market, it ...
Tags: Christmas vacation, cotton market, Textile
India-based Rajhans Enterprises has acquired a five layer extrusion line for film production to extend its operations to the flexible packaging market. The company has been expanding its operations in the past few months and one of its ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, registration setting system, Agriculture
With falling home prices and slowing growth, Beijing already has plenty on its plate. Such challenges are now fueling concerns about how the current Russian currency turmoil will impact the world’s second largest economy, and ...
Tags: Currency Depreciation, home prices, rubble
Apple has forced Mac computers to update in an effort to patch security issues. This is in contrast to the normal update process that requires users to give the software a thumbs-up on their end. The Cupertino, California-based firm ...
Tags: Apple, Consumer Electronics
The much-mooted 12-inch MacBook Air with Retina display has been tipped for a 2015 launch. The device currently only exists as hushed whispers at One Infinite Loop, but is set to begin mass-production in Q1 next year. This week’s ...
Cabela's, Nike and Under Armour was among 10 online retailers that earned spots on the Kurt Salmon Santa’s Good List for Holiday Shipping for speedily delivering multi-unit Cyber Monday orders in an average of 2.6 days, more than ...
Tags: Outdoor Brands
Amazon.com, Inc. launched Prime Now in select areas of Manhattan in New York City Thursday. The long anticipated service offers one-hour delivery on tens of thousands of daily essentials to Amazon Prime members through a mobile app. Prime ...
Oak Furniture Land, the UK’s fastest-growing furniture company, is launching a major new sofa brand with 57 showrooms across its retail network. SofaStore is the latest development from the clicks-to-bricks retail success story that ...
The World Diamond Conference that took place last week in New Delhi, India, created a buzz in the industry that, frankly, needed a bit of a pick-up considering the state of the market. It not often that two heads of state attend a diamond ...
Tags: Diamond Trade, Arts
This week, Altos Hornos de Mexico S.A.B. de C.V. (AHMSA) presented a civil court request in Monclova, Coahuila, to lift the suspension of payments to creditors. The application is supported by a general agreement with the required ...
A frozen computer is frustrating, but a frozen touchscreen in an automobile is a much bigger deal. That’s why engineers push the touchscreen buttons on the Buick IntelliLink infotainment system more than 2 million times every week, ...
Tags: gas station, frozen touchscreen, Auto
Automotive suppliers will quality check more than 300 million airbag-inflator systems using sophisticated helium- and hydrogen-based leak-detection technology in 2015. Frontal airbags have reduced fatalities in frontal crashes by up to 25 ...
Tags: Detection Technology, Airbag, Auto
China is likely to slash gasoline and diesel prices in the coming week due to sluggish domestic demands and a continuing crude price slump in the global market. The modern industries and living environments are built on the base of ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Mineral
Sony has pushed out a frustratingly abstract video in hopes of whetting consumer appetites for its wares ahead of CES. The lady-filled piece is largely a montage of what appears to be utter randomness The lady-filled montage appears to ...