Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM's profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.? Sales also fell, sliding 4 percent from last year's first quarter to US$22.5 billion. The ...
Tags: IBM, Hardware, Computer Products
Sunday Sept. 29 2013, is a new day for China as it marks the official launch of the much anticipated Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Sunday is also International Coffee Day. Just as UK coffee houses in an earlier age were the places where people ...
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A year after a building with a glass façade in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) caught fire, the city's municipality has come up with guidelines for such buildings which are mushrooming across the city, especially in business hubs. The ...
New York-based fashion brand alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet and Asia's leading retail, brand management and distribution company ImagineX Group announced an exclusive strategic partnership to develop the brand in Greater China and ...
Zara Home continues to expand worldwide with the simultaneous opening of its first two stores in Japan, in two of the country’s major cities: Osaka, a leading financial centre in southern Japan, and Yokohama, a city within the Tokyo ...
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The recent landmark currency agreement between Australia and China is good news for Australian manufacturers. Under the agreement, exporters will be able to directly trade the Australian dollar with the yuan and vice versa. The deal, ...
Tags: Currency Deal, Boost Trade
Mostra Convegno Expocomfort, one of the leading international biennial exhibition dedicated to residential and industrial installations, air-conditioning and renewable energy scheduled for 18th – 21st March 2014 at Fiera Milano is ...
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Global insurance services provider Clements Worldwide has launched its Dubai office, which the company claims to be its first location in the MENA region. The US insurer manages offices in Washington DC and London, and with the addition ...
A Wi-Fi network running across the financial centre of the City of London has been made free to the public. The Square Mile first became Wi-Fi enabled back in 2007, after the City of London Corporation signed a deal with The Cloud to ...
"The glass curtain wall of the Ningbo Global Center exploded again", read a message posted by a microblog user called "Feng Feng sky" at 8 a.m. on 27th August. This is the third time that the glass curtain wall of the Ningbo Global Center ...
You can now access a new and comprehensive'cotton trade'history timeline via the International Cotton Association's(ICA)website.A valuable resource for academics and anybody interested in the cotton trade,the site contains the history of ...
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Times of India reported that mocking the French Government for asking ArcelorMittal to leave France, London Mayor Mr Boris Johnson on Tuesday said "Sans-culottes (working class militants) appear to have captured Paris." The London Mayor ...
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Buildings with glass façades may look swank and sophisticated, but they are far more vulnerable to fire, warn firefighters and experts, as fire broke out in a 13-storey commercial building on Friday. Firefighters, Who were a part of ...
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