Taiwan-based China Petrochemical Development Corporation (CPDC) has undertaken a turnaround of its two acrylonitrile (ACN) lines. A CDPC official told fibre2fashion that line No-1 has been taken offstream on November 3 and line No-2 on ...
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Dutch ingredients group DSM has signed a deal to buy US food additive producer Fortitech in a deal worth EUR495m(US$630.8m). The acquisition,the second for DSM in the last month,is an all-cash transaction and is expected to close this ...
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Sony said Thursday that the executive in charge of its online products,and linking them up to its broad hardware holdings,will leave the company at the end of the year. The Tokyo-based electronics giant said Tim Schaaff,who it poached ...
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Lenovo's CEO said on Thursday he expects the market will gradually move away from entertainment-focused tablets in favor for convertible PCs,which he said can strike a balance between the functions of touch-based tablets and the ...
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Software made by Siemens and targeted by the Stuxnet malware is still full of other dangerous vulnerabilities,according to Russian researchers whose presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier this year was cancelled following a ...
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US-based POM Wonderful, the grower of fresh pomegranates and producer of pomegranate juice, has announced the launch of POM POMS Fresh Arils on store. Coming from POM Wonderful's orchards in California are POM POMS, a package of ready to ...
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Italy-based Nuova GIDUE has announced the establishment of GIDUE USA, a company dedicated for North American sales and service of its machines and equipment. The joint venture between Nuova GIDUE and Jones Printing Equipment (JPE) will ...
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For its next generation of supercomputers,Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O(input/output)of individual nodes.The new XC30 supercomputer will feature a new interconnect,called Aries,and a new routing topology that together ...
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Recently, , one of the leading wedding dresses companies, announced its new arrival of wedding gloves on Oct. 28. According to Donnie Terry, CEO of MerleDress.com, November is always the annual peak period of marriage, and wedding gloves ...
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After a year in which some people called into question Research in Motion's future,the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is hoping that the much-delayed BlackBerry 10(BB10)operating system will help turn the company around. Further ...
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Optim has introduced a new mobile Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) system for ENT and speech pathology clinicians. The system, which allows clinicians to set-up portable or office based FEES programs within the ...
DiscoveRx in Fremont, US, has purchased BioSeek, a provider of drug discovery services, for an undisclosed sum. Under the acquisition, DiscoveRx will add BioSeek's BioMAP drug screening platform to its drug discovery solutions portfolio ...
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Verizon announced today it is extending its managed services offering for Microsoft Lync Server to its business customers by adding the ability to operate,monitor and manage unified communications and collaboration(UC&C)servers and ...
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IDG News Service-Oracle on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire project portfolio management(PPM)software vendor Instantis,in a move that will build upon its past acquisition of Primavera.Terms of the deal,which is expected to be ...
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Lenovo said Thursday its net profit for the fiscal second quarter increased by only 13% year-over-year, marking a shift from the high profit growth the company has previously seen. For the fiscal second quarter ending on Sept. 30, ...
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