Kraft Foods Group, Inc. today reported third quarter results that reflected significant cost savings that outpaced brand-building reinvestments, as well as a negative impact from comparisons with unusually high product shipments in the ...
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Sears Holdings Corp. announced it may spin off its Sears Auto Center (SAC) business from the rest of the company. The company believes that "SAC has a unique national footprint that can be leveraged to create significant value," according ...
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DuPont advanced its transformation to a higher growth, higher value company as its Board of Directors authorized management to execute a full separation of its Performance Chemicals segment, which includes the Titanium Technologies and ...
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The Angry Birds mobile gaming phenomenon is expanding into the world of racing with a new spin-off game due to launch in December. Dubbed Angry Birds Go! and featuring the franchises now well-known bird and pig characters, the new game ...
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Fuji Xerox agree on comprehensive tie-up in document services business. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. have reached an agreement on comprehensive business alliance in ...
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National Oilwell Varco announced that its Board of Directors has authorized Company management to move forward with exploration of a plan to spin-off NOV?s distribution business from the remainder of the Company, creating two stand-alone, ...
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Gorilla Glass, which is used in the displays of mobile devices such as the iPhone, is pretty tough stuff. That said, it still isn't that uncommon to see iPhones with cracked screens. Such carnage may become a less common sight, however, if ...
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin ...
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Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 0700) will see stake in Sogou.com, the search engine unit of Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), rise to about 40 percent in the near future. It co-announced with Sohu.com. and Sogou.com in ...
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A grand NHS patient record system that was intended to computerise every patient record - before being abandoned - has cost UK taxpayers £10bn so far. Furthermore, hundreds of millions of pounds more in costs are expected to emerge ...
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Smit Ovens of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, which supplies customized thermal equipment and processes for the photovoltaic, glass and display industries, and Eindhoven-based SoLayTec, a spin-off from Dutch research organisation TNO founded in ...
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Investment fund Starboard Value LP, one of majority shareholders of the largest US pork producer Smithfield Foods (SFD), planned to vote against the merger between SFD and Shuanghui International Holding, said foreign sources. Starboard ...
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In a European collaboration within the project ConceptGraphene, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a method for fast and inexpensive quality control of graphene grown on silicon carbide (SiC). The ...
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Cheil Industries, a leading electronic materials company in the display industry, and Novaled AG, a world class provider in OLED technologies and materials, announced today that Cheil Industries acquires a majority stake in Novaled in a ...
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Samsung is reportedly in talks to acquire German organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology developer Novaled. A Novaled representative declined to comment on reports that Samsung is offering more than $200 million for the company, ...