In addition to its sponsorship, SCHOTT North America, Inc. will offer expertise in glass ceramics to the challenge’s finalists in hopes of finding new innovations in home heating as well as raising awareness about clean-burning wood ...
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General Motors is hiring 1,000 IT staff for a center in a suburb of Phoenix, as part of its strategy to move more high-value IT work in-house. The new center will join three others it has set up in Austin, Texas; Roswell, Ga., and Warren, ...
T-Mobile USA is drawing closer to finishing its merger with MetroPCS Wireless as a deadline for action by the U.S. Department of Justice passed on Tuesday. T-Mobile agreed last October to merge with the smaller MetroPCS, forming a larger ...
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Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven security updates next week, four of them rated "critical," to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, Office, SharePoint Server and the Silverlight media software. March's Patch Tuesday ...
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Facebook unveiled an updated look for its News Feed on Thursday, showing larger images and offering different feeds based on users' interests. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook, was the first to take the stage at a press ...
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The increasing demand for precision machine parts has encouraged plenty of machine parts developing companies to come online. Through their websites they showcase the products and machines used by them to manufacture superior quality ...
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Premier Foods faces six key challenges – including: managing consumer demand uncertainties, reducing its borrowing and grappling with its pension deficit – according to City analyst Investec. Commodity concern: Premier ...
The chief executive of soft drink manufacturer Nichols has announced he’s standing down on the day the firm posted 9% group sales growth for 2012. The Vimto maker Nichols drew praise for 'a very good performance in a challenging ...
Chinese Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) producer - SK Zhenbang is operating its plant at reduced capacity rates. “Stock levels have risen due to the Chinese New Year holidays, so the plant is currently operating at 90% capacity ...
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Malaysia-based Petronas Chemical which had shutdown its No-2 methanol plant owing to technical issues has restarted the plant on March 4. Speaking to fibre2fashion, a company official said, “We had shut down the No-2 methanol ...
Michael Dell is facing new opposition to his plan to take his eponymously named company private after "activist investor" Carl Icahn demanded a $15.7bn (£10.4bn) special dividend. The billionaire investor wants to force Dell to pay ...
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Massive Dynamics Inc. has kept its eye on the pulse of this rapidly evolving technology, and industry experts are calling it the “Third Industrial Revolution”. “You are almost unlimited as to the geometric ...
Google is to make 1,200 more job cuts - around 10 per cent of its workforce - at Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone maker it acquired for $12.5bn (£7.7bn) in a protracted deal completed in May 2012. The job cuts are part of a ...
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Microsoft has announced that seven patches will be released on Tuesday 12 March. The bulletins, as Microsoft calls them, comprise four "critical" and three "important" updates. The critical updates address vulnerabilities in Microsoft ...
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The number of major mattress makers is about to shrink again. Four years after Serta and Simmons combined under joint ownership, Tempur-Pedic has now gotten approval from the Federal Trade Commission to acquire competitor Sealy. The ...