Singapore Exchange has cleared a record high of 108.9 million tonnes for its flagship iron ore swaps in 2012.This is 2.5 times of the 43.2 million tonnes cleared in 2011. Open interest reached an all time high of 12.3 million tonnes on ...
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Market experts predict that spot prices of Acetic acid in Asia may remain high in the initial period of the current year as plant operating rates are likely to be cut by major producers.The downstream market is oversupplied as per the ...
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Rob Honeycutt, founder of Timbuk2, the first company to bring mass customized bags to customers via the Internet, is launching a new mass customization venture. At Timbuk2, Rob created an online bag builder allowing customers to create ...
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Storage is a key component of IT strategy. After all, data is the lifeblood of any business. But storage is there to provide data for processing by business critical applications, and the way that data is processed is undergoing huge ...
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As we enter a new year,we are confronted with one of the more bizarre and enigmatic cotton situations in recent memory.What makes price analysis currently so difficult is that we are essentially dealing with two entirely different ...
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A public private partnership agreement for Shalimar Group to manage an overnight Lahore to Karachi passenger service was signed by Pakistan Railways on December 26th. The Night Coach Express is scheduled to start in early January,with ...
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Retailers have had another rocky year with more high street closures piling up, while online spend continued to enjoy double digit growth. As consumer spending remained stagnant, companies looked to their digital channels to bolster sales. ...
The challenge of attracting more women in to the technology sector has been an issue for some time now, but 2012 saw some interesting steps forward in the gender equality debate. Below are some the biggest and most interesting women in IT ...
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Olympic CIO Gerry Pennell and Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox are included in this year’s New Year honours list Martha Lane Fox, who advises government on digital strategies, including the move to a single domain for ...
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There were 123 heads of state and governments using Twitter to communicate with citizens and the rest of the world as of December 2012, a think tank said Tuesday. The number is up 78 percent on 2011, according to a study released on ...
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The FCC is making it easier to launch in-flight Internet services on planes in the U.S. by setting up a standard approval process for onboard systems that use satellites. Since 2001, the Federal Communications Commission has approved some ...
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The annual CES trade show in Las Vegas gets under way this weekend with big announcements from gadget makers keen to wow and convince us they have the next big thing. But it's worth remembering that some of the promises and predictions made ...
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U.S. mobile trade group CTIA will combine its two annual trade shows starting in 2014 as it tries to attract a bigger share of the world's interest in smartphones, apps and other hot technologies. The group's flagship event, CTIA ...
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Reuters reported that iron ore shipments to China from Australia's Port Hedland,a bellwether for Chinese industrial activity,surged 25%in December,from the previous month. Port authority data said that China imported 20.23 million tonnes ...
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Netflix, which faced an interruption of its video streaming service on Christmas Eve, had problems again on Monday related to its DVD website. "Reports of an @Netflix outage today are wrong: Streaming is fine. DVD delivery is fine," said ...
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