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Invuity Inc. Has Secured $36 Million in Series E Financing
Mar 4, 2014Invuity's Eigr Waveguide (Courtesy Invuity Inc.) Planning to accelerate commercial initiatives across its line of advanced visualization devices for minimally invasive surgery, Invuity Inc. (San Francisco) has secured $36 million in ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Surgical Lighting
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The TJX Companies Plans to Open Its First STP Stores
Mar 4, 2014The TJX Companies plans to open its first Sierra Trading Post (STP) stores since acquiring the retailer later this year and has grown much more enamored with the outdoor space, CEO Carol Meyrowitz said Wednesday. "The whole space we're ...
Tags: Recreation, TJX company, sporting goods
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The Net Volume of Gas Imported Into The UK Outstripped Domestic Production in 2013
Mar 4, 2014The net volume of gas imported into the UK outstripped domestic production in 2013 for the first time ever, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said Thursday. "Imports of gas again exceeded UK production, and in 2013 for the first ...
Tags: Gas Imports, Domestic Output
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Boston Athletic Association Announced a "No Bags Policy" for The 2014 Boston Marathon
Mar 4, 2014The Boston Athletic Association announced a "no bags policy" for the 2014 Boston Marathon to expedite security checks and promote overall safety at the race in the wake of last year's bombing. The policy bans participants from bringing ...
Tags: Personal Bags, Marathon, Sports
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The March US Butadiene Contract Price Friday Settled up 8-13 Cents/Lb
Mar 4, 2014The March US butadiene contract price Friday settled up 8-13 cents/lb ($176-$287/mt) from February at a 68-78 cents/lb ($1,499-$1,720/mt) split settlement, sources said. LyondellBasell, Shell Chemicals and TPC Group settled up 8 cents/lb ...
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Ethylene Producers in Northwest Europe Have Fixed Two Cargoes to Asia
Mar 4, 2014Ethylene producers in Northwest Europe have fixed two cargoes to Asia for March loading driven by length in domestic market, the turnaround season in Asia and port congestion in the Middle East, sources said this week. Europe, a net ...
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GU Energy Has Promoted Three to Vice President of Finance and Director Positions
Mar 4, 2014GU Energy Labs has promoted Michael Littleton to vice president of finance, Magdalena Lewy-Boulet to vice president of innovation and Lauren O'Connor to director of marketing. GU Energy's resident US Olympian (Women's Marathon, 2008 ...
Tags: Gu Energy, sports, Recreation
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US Major Chevron Expects to Start up Its Chuandongbei Sour Gas Project Onshore China
Mar 4, 2014US major Chevron expects to start up its Chuandongbei sour gas project onshore China in 2015, a further delay from its last target of late 2013, the company indicated in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission last week. The ...
Tags: Chevron, Gas Project
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Rosneft's Crude Production Will Amount to 55 Million Mt/Year
Mar 4, 2014Rosneft estimates that crude production from its East Siberian and Russian Far Eastern projects will amount to 55 million mt/year, or 1.1 million b/d, by 2025, a spokesman at Rosneft said Friday. To achieve this, the company plans to ...
Tags: Rosneft, Crude Output
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Energy Storage Is Becoming a Pretty Big Deal
Mar 4, 2014As we have seen in recent months, energy storage is becoming a pretty big deal. California has the country's first energy storage mandate in place, and plants like Solana in Arizona have started trying to incorporate storage in from the ...
Tags: Salt, Storage, energy storage
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Volvo's Plan for"Roam Delivery" Would Have Stores Deliver Groceries Straight to Locked Car
Mar 4, 2014A computer-scientist friend of mine opined long ago that the Internet will truly come of age only when he can download a beer. He was referring to the last-meter problem of online shopping: that of getting stuff through the door of an ...
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The MIT Group Trys to Translate a Computer Model to a Real Product
Mar 4, 2014About 18 months ago, I wrote about an MIT project in which computer models demonstrated that graphene could act as a filter in the desalination of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO is slightly less energy intensive than the ...
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Geothermal Industry Group Has Issued a Status Report on The State's Geothermal Resources
Mar 4, 2014As the California Air Resources Board is examining their new scoping plan for implementing the state's ambitious climate law, AB 32, the leading geothermal industry group has issued a status report on the state's geothermal resources that ...
Tags: Geothermal Potential, California, Untapped
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Microinverters and DC Optimizers Are Playing an Increasingly Significant Role
Mar 4, 2014One part power electronics and one part networking and communications technology, microinverters and DC optimizers (commonly referred to as module-level power electronics, or MLPEs) are playing an increasingly significant role in ...
Tags: renewable energy, Microinverters, DC Power
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Russian Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Exports May Struggle to Find a Home in The UK in Winter
Mar 4, 2014Russian ultra low sulfur diesel exports may struggle to find a home in the UK in the winter after the country's oil importers agreed earlier this month to enact a new test to assess the fuel's filter-blocking tendency, traders said Friday. ...
