Klenk Holz is launching a new search for investors and has taken Dr Hans Peter Dohmen, the new chief restructuring officer (CRO), on board for this purpose. The declared aim of the procedure is to find a buyer in the framework of a share ...
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Umm Al Quwain Cement Industries has said that oversupply in the real estate market is continuing to impact on demand for cement - a trend which it expects to continue throughout the year. "We expect this year to be a tough year for the ...
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City Cement has revealed that the breakdown caused by a technical failure at its second mill could lead to it losing sales of up to $13.3m (SR: 50m). In a statement to the Saudi stock exchange yesterday, the firm said that it could take up ...
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Heimtextil (9 to 12 January 2013) is showing a significant increase in the number of fibre and yarn exhibitors. The range of products runs the gamut from traditional materials to high-tech fibres for highly specialised applications. More ...
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Samuel K. Gayi, Head Special Unit on Commodities (SUC) UNCTAD said it all started in Geneva in December 2008 as an UNCTAD Secretary-General's multi-stakeholder forum to discuss the problems afflicting Africa's cotton sector. It later ...
A German couple are not liable for the filesharing activities of their 13-year old son because they told him unauthorized downloading and sharing of copyrighted material was illegal,and they were unaware the boy violated this ...
NTT DoCoMo,Japan's largest mobile provider,said Friday it will soon launch the world's first femtocells to support both 3G and LTE networks. The company said it will begin using the new femtocells commercially from next month on its ...
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IDG News Service-The initial public offering of Ruckus Wireless on Friday highlighted the growing importance of Wi-Fi in mobile networks as service providers try to meet the demands of smartphone and tablet users. Ruckus,a maker of Wi-Fi ...
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IDG News Service-Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly doubled in the third quarter,after Apple settled in July a lengthy dispute over the iPad trademark name that once threatened to ban the device from store shelves in the country. ...
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Expecting comparatively lower sales during the approaching holiday season, US retailers have imported lesser quantity of textiles during the month of September 2012. The overall US textile and garment imports declined by 1.3 percent ...
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IDG News Service - The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloads. So while a new Cray supercomputer took first place on theTop500, ...
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Big data a catalyst for change Corporate IT, BI and enterprise search Finding the gems Social, collaborative common to BI and search Business intelligence (BI) and enterprise search have been converging slowly in corporate IT ...
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Sears Canada Inc.announced its unaudited third quarter results.Total revenues for the 13-week period ended October 27,2012 were$1,037.5 million compared to$1,113.2 million for the 13-week period ended October 29,2011,a decrease of 6.8%.Same ...
Lack of security in the cyber world is one of the most significant threats faced by the civilized world, according to Jarno Limnell, director of cyber security at security firm Stonesoft. "But it seems that we have to experience a ...
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Barring an economic disaster, the global private sector will increase IT spending in 2013 before a sustained recovery, but government spending will see a continuing decline. Gartner predicted global IT spending by enterprises would rise ...
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