Microsoft and the China Electronics Technology Group, or CETG, have announced a new joint venture. The new company is provisionally named C&M Information Technologies, and will provide Windows 10 related services to Chinese government ...
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Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson has signed a patent license agreement with Apple. Financial details have not been revealed. Meanwhile, Ericsson has estimated that its overall revenues from intellectual property rights this year ...
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China aims to cover all its urban and rural areas with 4G network by 2018, according to an action plan published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Monday. The country also plans to install fiber optics in ...
Despite significant regional challenges, international retailers are taking the long-term view on investments in developing markets and are persisting in finding solutions, according to global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. The ...
Tags: Global Retail, Retail
Dematic has launched its modular goods-to-person storage and retrieval system to Australian distribution centres that the company says can deliver a picking rate improvement of 500% compared to a traditional environment. The new modular ...
Tags: GTP System, Improvements, Service
Moody's has changed its outlook for the global shipping industry to stable from negative on April 30. This outlook reflects Moody's expectations for the fundamental business conditions in the industry over the next 12 to 18 months. ...
Tags: Shipping, Global Shipping
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Claiborne Elementary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, won the fourth-annual Energy Star National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. Teams from more than 3,000 ...
Tags: EPA, certification, Construction, Service
The IATA reports that growth in air freight markets moderated in February, rising 2.9% compared to a year ago, down on the 4.3% increase in January. But combining the first two months of the year shows there has been a solid 3.6% gain in ...
Tags: Air Freight, Service
Wholesale inventories rose 0.6% in January but sales declined, the Commerce Department reported March 11. Sales declined 1.9% in January, the largest drop since March 2009 when the economy was in recession. The rise in inventories ...
The latest ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover rose 1.2 per cent in January 2014, seasonally adjusted, following a rise of 0.7 per cent in December 2013. Turnover rose in cafes, restaurants and takeaway food ...
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According to the research form Princeton University Institute, the Facebook may has reached the end, more and more users begin to ignore its charm, and eventually lose interest in it. Some analysts believe that the main reason is teenagers ...
China Internet network information center reported, 500 million mobile Internet users in China till December 2013, increase of 80.09 million at the end of 2012, the growth rate of 19%. The Internet uses which use of mobile from 74.5% ...
The Commission has adopted a proposal to give an extra transition period of six months during which payments which differ from the SEPA format can still be accepted so as to minimise any possible risk of disruption to payments for consumers ...
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In November 2013 compared with October 2013, the seasonally adjusted volume of retail trade rose by 1.4% in the euro area (EA17) and by 1.2% in the EU28, according to estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In ...
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In the report "E-Commerce VS Retail: Dominant Power Shift to Consumers", banks of America points out that the consumer's attitude toward shopping more mature than before, this may mean trouble in the future for e-commerce and entity retail ...
Tags: E-Commerce, economy, Service