January 16, 2013 - Ascent Group Inc.—the parent company of Ascent Solutions, Ascent Renewables, Ascent Energy Services and St. Thomas Energy—has recently announced two senior management changes. Ron Osborne has been appointed ...
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A US-based sustainable manufacturing consortium, the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), is partnering with its member, Purdue University, and Tuskegee University on an international effort to replace conventional ...
ARM has had a boost from Facebook by being added to Facebook's Open Compute Project.This means that Facebook and other server customers will buy servers from companies which use both x86 processors and ARM processors. The Open Compute ...
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TSMC had Q4 revenues of $4.5bn for a profit of $1.4bn. Revenue was 25% up on Qa2011 and profit was up 32% on Q4 2011. Compared to Q32012, Q4 was a 7.1% decrease in revenue and a 15.7% decrease in profit. Gross margin for the quarter was ...
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The Subaru Outback will become the Japanese brand’s first vehicle to be offered with a diesel engine/automatic transmission combination in Australia when the new wagon variant arrives in March. The car maker’s new Lineartronic ...
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The rear-wheel-drive V6- and V8-equipped Hyundai Genesis sedan is being strongly considered for an Australian introduction, following confirmation that the next generation model will be built in right-hand-drive. Speaking at the North ...
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The high-performance Mercedes-Benz GLA45 AMG compact crossover has been spied for the first time undergoing cold-weather testing in northern Sweden. Although the standard version of the all-new Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class is not due to be ...
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Global insurer RSA has launched a new Commercial Crime Protection policy, designed to provide very broad cover for commercial businesses to mitigate the financial impact of crimes such as fraud, dishonesty or malicious acts. Offering ...
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Mercedes-Benz has moved to a more modular engineering philosophy in order to enable faster deployment of upcoming models based on newly developed platforms. Speaking with the Australian media at the Detroit auto show this week, the head ...
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US-based insurance brokerage Hylant Group has completed acquisition of Benefit Consulting Alliance (BCA) and Benefit Outsourcing Group (BOG). As part of the transaction, BCA and BOG partners Wayne Emery and John Maple will join Hylant's ...
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Mercedes-Benz is still investing in future diesel passenger cars despite continuous improvements in petrol engines and ongoing mainstreaming of hybrid technologies. Speaking to CarAdvice at the Detroit auto show this week, the head of ...
Imec and PVA Tepla claim a breakthrough in the detection of through-silicon via (TSV) voids in 3D stacked IC technology. They used GHz scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) technology to detect TSV voids at wafer-level after TSV Copper ...
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The Latvian birch plywood producer Latvijas Finieris has opened another sales office in Turkey at the end of last year. The company says the decision to found the new company, which does business as Riga Wood Orman ürünleri, was ...
Mattress retailer Sleep Train has signed a deal for the naming rights to Live Nation Entertainment's Chula Vista, Calif., venue, formerly known as the Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre. The newly renamed Sleep Train Amphitheatre is a popular ...
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Aided by a ramped-up marketing program, organizers of the Tupelo Furniture Market said more than 110 new exhibitors have signed up for next month's event and about two dozen existing exhibitors have expanded their showrooms. In addition, ...