Large businesses must deal with the same level of uncertainty as start-ups, and so need to experiment more and react quicker, said Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels, speaking at The Economist's Technology Frontiers summit ...
Online shopping giant Beyond the Rack will unveil its new mobile app at South By Southwest in Austin Saturday, highlighting the power of real-time engagement through its integration with global cross-channel digital marketing provider ...
Sibur has undertaken construction of Tobolsk-Polymer plant, a large scale world-class petrochemicals complex located in Tobolsk at the same production site as the Group’s flagship GFU. The complex will apply the propane ...
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Easton is making a running change to its M1 rear hubs and is making available an upgrade kit for existing hubs to eliminate side-to-side play and improve bearing durability. The upgrade kits are available at no charge to dealers with the ...
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PNI's Sentral sensor fusion hub is an IC for motion processing in mobile devices. It's designed for the offloading of sensor management and fusion work from host CPUs, thereby helping to reduce power usage. The Sentral sensor fusion hub ...
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New York base reinsurer, Transatlantic Holdings (TransRe) has appointed Robert Saville as the new senior vice president and head of Underwriting for the Asia-Pacific region. Saville, who holds more than 22 years of reinsurance experience, ...
Tags: Underwriting Head, Singapore Operations, Transatlantic Holdings
Following the dissolution of a proposed merger of cycling's most powerful advocacy groups, the League of American Bicyclists used the opening of its annual National Bike Summit to rebrand the organization and set a new course for the ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
The UK manufacturing and sales divisions of Carl Zeiss have cemented their roots in Cambridge with an expansion of their existing production site and the construction of new application laboratories, sales and service offices and customer ...
Tags: electron microscope, Electrical, Electronics
The flip side to China's large population is its vast labor supply. China's emergence as the manufacturing hub of the world over the past three decades has created significant downward pressure on pricing of many of the world's goods. ...
Tags: Focus Vision, China, China Price
Cereplast launches Algaeplast bioplastics subsidiary Cereplast Inc., a manufacturer of biobased, compostable and sustainable bioplastics, has launched Algaeplast Inc., The subsidiary will focus on development and manufacture of ...
US spot monthly natural gas prices for March increased by 12 cents, or 3.7% on average, to $3.35/MMBtu, compared with the previous month's $3.23/MMBtu average, Inside FERC's Gas Market Report said Friday. The NYMEX March gas futures ...
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US fuel oil exports to the Netherlands, Europe's primary demand hub, were the second-highest on record for 2012 but slowed in the latter part of the year, according to US data, signaling a shifting dynamic as domestic demand for the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, high sulfur fuel oil
BlackBerry has started rolling out the first software update for its flagship Z10 smartphone. The Z10 running on the BlackBerry 10 operating system has got its first firmware upgrade based on user feedback. BlackBerry 10.0.10.85 brings a ...
SRAM has begun production of a new range of urban bike parts at a factory in Dali, Taiwan. The new line was developed over the course of 22 months at SRAM's facility in Schweinfurt, Germany, where the company has traditionally manufactured ...
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John Lewis has announced that it will open a second Distribution Centre (DC) at Magna Park in Milton Keynes, to fulfil orders both from the retailer's online business and to its 39 shops around the UK. John Lewis has signed a 30-year ...
Tags: John Lewis, Distribution Centre, Magna Park