Strava, the online network connecting the global community of athletes, has partnered with Sequoia and secured $18.5 million in financing. Existing investors Sigma West and Madrone Capital Partners also participated in the round. This ...
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According to Canadean’s latest survey, 55% of Britons are worried about bacteria on the outside of a can more than the presence of dirt and dust, or if it is dented or discoloured. So it predicts, reasonably, that antibacterial ...
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Another round of jewels from the collections of the late Estée and Evelyn Lauder are the highlight of Sotheby’s upcoming Magnificent Jewels sale, scheduled for Dec. 9 in New York. Estée Lauder (1906-2004) was the ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Japanese manufacturer Showa Denko has qualified its most recent system for manufacturing silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers. The new AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) chemical vapor ...
The machine-tool manufacturer, Fair Friend Enterprise Group, broke ground on Oct.18 to construct a plant in the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Experimental Zone (ZAEZ) in Henan Province, China as part of its goal to lead the global machine-tool ...
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Spearheaded by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and coordinated by Goodway Machine Corp., around 10 of Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers plan to organize a consortium by the end of this year to develop high-end machines for ...
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Character World will be exhibiting for the first time. Sambro has detailed the exhibitors attending its third trade event at its Bury headquarters. Character World will exhibit for the first time while other exhibitors include Brennan ...
John Spinello needs $25,000 to pay for oral surgery. A crowdfunding campaign has launched to help pay for an operation needed by the inventor of the classic board game, Operation. John Spinello invented the classic game in 1964 and sold ...
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Brand will span toys, apps, books and digital content. Award-winning child development and parenting expert Denise Daniels is launching a new brand to help children better understand their emotions called The Moodsters. The brand will ...
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has announced that in September of the current year coal shipments by Chinese railways amounted to 186 million mt, down 4.3 percent year on year, while in the January-September ...
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At the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Autumn Convention held on 27-28 October in Paris, concerns have emerged regarding a matter which only a few market players have considered with due attention so far, i.e., the volumes of steel ...
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Argentina’s crude steel production increased 0.3 percent year-over-year in September to 463,800 mt, according to the country’s steel chamber, CAA . Meanwhile, September crude steel production decreased 0.8 percent ...
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Milan-based investigating Fabrizio D'Arcangelo has accepted a request made by Piero Gnudi, special commissioner for Taranto-based Italian steelmaker Ilva, to free up and transfer €1.2 billion to the Italian company. The funds in ...
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Taiwan's largest steelmaker China Steel Corporation (CSC) has announced that in September this year its carbon steel sales volume amounted to 838,719 metric tons, rising 1.21 percent compared to August and accounting for 65 percent of ...
North Carolina State University (NCSU) has been developing homo-epitaxy of non-polar aluminium nitride (AlN) with a view to deep ultraviolet (DUV, less than 300nm wavelength) optoelectronics [Isaac Bryan et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol116, ...
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