Osram Opto Semiconductors has improved its thin-film infrared chip technology to achieve high performance in the laboratory,including 72%wall-plug efficiency and 67%external quantum efficiency.Osram Opto Semiconductors has reported the ...
Azelis has been appointed distributor by Momentive,to service the coatings sector in Russia.Azelis will now offer Momentive's range of water-based dispersions for paints,under the AXILAT brand name. The AXILAT polymer dispersion range ...
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India's CRI Pumps Pvt Ltd has signed a business transfer agreement with Pumps & Process Systems Ltd to acquire the Glasgow, UK-based company's pumping solutions operations. This agreement will expand CRI Pumps’ industrial pumping ...
The Prudential Insurance Company of America has inked a purchase deal with Verizon Management Pension Plan,to settle nearly$7.5bn of pension liabilities under a single premium group annuity contract. As per terms of the ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft may have accelerated plans to expand the Surface RT's retail footprint because touch-sensitive devices are the only Windows hardware flying off shelves,an analyst said yesterday. In a shift from its in-house sales ...
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IDG News Service-Hewlett-Packard will allow enterprises to pay for managed LAN offerings based on usage,in much the same way they pay for cloud services,through a partnership with telecom service providers. HP's FlexNetwork Utility ...
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Annual profits have increased at US wholesale retailer Costco on the back of higher sales at home and abroad. Costco yesterday (10 October) reported net income of US$1.71bn for the 53 weeks to 2 September. The result compared to the ...
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Produce group Fyffes today (3 September) increased its forecast for annual profits, sending its shares higher. Fyffes said it expects EBITA to hit EUR28-33m (US$35.2-41.5m) up from a previous prediction of EUR25-30m. The company said ...
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Singapore conglomerate Olam International has posted a fall in annual profits but sales volumes and margins from its food business continued to grow. The company yesterday (28 August) booked a 4.6% decline in underlying net profit to ...
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US speciality food group Inventure Foods has attributed its third-quarter profits to rising sales of its frozen natural and health food products. Net income in the three months to 29 September increased to US$1.7m, compared a loss of ...
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IDG News Service-Companies worried about their bills for cloud services have a new--and free--option:Apptio's Cloud Express,which can track usage and costs for cloud services from Amazon Web Services,Microsoft and Rackspace. IT ...
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The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and SC Biz Magazine have named Safelite AutoGlass among their Best Places to Work.Safelite ranked sixth in the large company category. "Safelite is a great place to work,and we are so honored that ...
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Mutlifamily starts are expected to increase more than 30 percent this year,an additional 20 percent in 2013 and another 9 percent in 2014,said Kermit Baker,chief economist for the American Institute of Architects,at the recent Window and ...
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Delta Microelectronics has become a Globalfoundries channel and Asic partner covering Europe,Middle East and Africa(EMEA). The semiconductor design and production services firm Delta will offer Globalfoundries semiconductor fabrication ...
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One of the major concerns of every construction project manager is the cost of construction and the means by which those costs can be cut or minimised.Project managers often rely on Brisbane excavator hire to take care of some construction ...
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