BP announced Friday an $8 billion share buyback program, following through on a promise to reverse the dilutive effect on earnings from its sale of its stake in TNK-BP. BP, which completed the sale of its 50% stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft on ...
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Russia's En+ Group, China Development Bank and Shenhua Group have signed a strategic cooperation agreement worth up to $2 billion to jointly develop coal resources in Eastern Siberia, the Russian energy company said Friday. Under the ...
Casio America, Inc. is pleased to announce the fx-CP400, which is the latest advancement in the company's ClassPad series of graphing scientific calculators. Designed with a large color touch-panel and slightly oval shape, the new fx-CP400 ...
Dell has received two counter-offers related to its plans to go private, with rival bids coming in from private equity fund manager Blackstone and entities associated with investor Carl Icahn. Reports of the offers surfaced in recent ...
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Fujitsu has paid $1.2 billion into its pension funds for current and former U.K. employees, and renegotiated cuts to ongoing pension contributions, freeing up cash to grow other areas of its U.K. business, the company said Monday. The ...
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3doo Inc., a 3-D media and entertainment platform, today announced that LG has approved 3doo's Player App for download and installation on LG's line of smart TVs in 87 countries and territories on every continent. "This significant ...
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Sony Mobile Communications (USA), Inc. ("Sony Mobile") brings the Xperia ZL to the US, offering consumers the best of Sony in a premium smartphone. The Xperia ZL is now available online for pre-sale at Sony Store and will soon be available ...
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Through March 31, Barnes & Noble is offering a two-for-one deal on a couple of its electronics devices: Purchase a Nook HD+ tablet (starting at $270), and B&N will throw in at no charge a Nook Simple Touch e-book reader, normally $80. You ...
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Intel says its rapidly expanding bring-your-own-device program has been a resounding success that delivered about 5 million hours of productivity gains last year. In the company's annual IT report released earlier this month, CIO Kim ...
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have taken another step towards bio-fuel cells. The research shows that it is possible for bacteria to lie directly on the surface of a metal or mineral and transfer electrical charge through ...
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The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has signed its first Chinese partnership with Shangpin.com, China's leading online retailer. Shangpin.com is China's first online retailer to sell in-season contemporary and designer ...
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, supports the textile industry’s efforts toward sustainable freshwater management with the publishing of water-saving tips and technologies in a special edition of its “News ...
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Speedo International has announced that Oberalp Deutschland GmbH and Oberalp Austria GmbH have been appointed as its new distribution partners in Germany and Austria respectively. The agreement, which will begin in May 2013, extends ...
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Oracle is filling out its product stack for communications with the acquisition of Tekelec, which provides network signaling, policy control and subscriber data management software for mobile data networks. Terms of the deal, which is ...
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Nokia said on Monday it is not prepared to license any of its patented technologies that might be essential to the VP8 video codec that is backed by Google. VP8 is a video compressing technology that was acquired by Google in 2010 from ...
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