After Daifuku Webb Holding Company today announced an agreement to acquire Wynright Corporation, Modern reached out to Sarah Carlson, marketing director at Daifuku, for her perspective on what the planned acquisition means for the company ...
Daifuku Webb Holding Company, a subsidiary of Daifuku Co., Ltd., and Wynright Corporation announced today that they have reached a definitive agreement for Daifuku Webb to acquire privately-owned Wynright. Under the agreement, Wynright ...
Silgan Holdings Inc. a supplier of rigid packaging for shelf-stable food and other consumer goods products, announced August 13 that it entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Portola Packaging, Inc., a manufacturer of plastic ...
Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies and The Dow Chemical Company have announced that PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina), China’s largest oil and gas producer and ...
Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, has invested $5 million in a new pilot reactor that has begun operations to support coatings polymer research and scale-up activities at its Coatings ...
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Samsung has unveiled an Android flip-phone with dual-touchscreens in China, which will likely be positioned as a premium device. The phone, called the SCH-W789, is displayed on Samsung’s mobile products website in China, and has two ...
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Sony on Thursday launched its new Portable Wireless Server (PWS) in the UAE. The device is designed to help users view, share, and store content from their smartphones, the vendor said. The device serves as a battery charger and card ...
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If you’re ridiculously photogenic, are in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, have 30 minutes and some money to spare, perhaps you should visit the Captured Dimensions studio to get a 3D figurine of yourself. Captured Dimensions aims to ...
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After a closed beta for a few months, Lenovo has opened for public preview its Reach consumer cloud service, which is a “cloud desktop” service through which applications can be launched without downloading and installing them ...
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Some level of government surveillance is “essential” if the nation is to minimize the incidence of terrorist strikes like the Boston Marathon bombing, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. In a rare interview with CBS This ...
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The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday launched a review of whether the country uses optimally advancements in technology to protect its national security while preventing unauthorized disclosure and maintaining public ...
Lenovo’s sales of tablets and smartphones were higher than that of PCs in its fiscal first quarter, reflecting the company’s efforts to reduce its dependence on the ailing PC business. The company reported on Thursday that net ...
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Microsoft has confirmed the release date for Windows 8.1 as 17 October. The firm said on the Windows blog that it the Windows 8.1 update will be live at 12am on 18 October in New Zealand, so that’s midday on 17 October here in the ...
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Microsoft has resolved a problem that affected SkyDrive Wednesday, but technical issues with Outlook.com have proven harder to fix. The glitches surfaced at around 10 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday and the SkyDrive problem was declared ...
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The much-anticipated update for Windows 8 will begin shipping on October 17, delivering a set of changes that Microsoft hopes will calm critics and improve sales of the tablet-optimized OS. Windows 8.1, previously known as Windows Blue, ...
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