Editor's note: The following blog was written by James Moore, owner of?Moore's Bicycle Shop in?Hattiesburg,?Miss. Moore is the new president of the National Bicycle Dealers Association. When I opened my bike shop in 1984 an eight-year-old ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
SAP sees "unlimited" potential for growth in Brazil, according to the firm's managing director of SAP Southern Latin America, Diego Dzodan. Speaking at SAP's Innovation Tour, Dzodan said that the company has had a presence in Brazil for ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Current proprietary software models are not fit for purpose as companies increasingly enter the cloud, IT bosses from Channel 4, accounting software firm Sage and Investec Bank have agreed. Speaking on a customer panel at Amazon's AWS ...
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The termination of China's Home Appliance Subsidiary programs in first-half 2013 caused LED backlight market demand to ease in June and July 2013. However, some chip makers have reflected rebounding performances due to stable market orders ...
Tags: LED Makers, LED Lighting
Hudson's Bay Company reported its results for the 13-week period ended August 3, 2013. Consistent with the first quarter of fiscal 2013, the second quarter was characterized by strong same store sales growth at Hudson's Bay and rising ...
Tags: Apparel
Pep Boys–Manny, Moe & Jack posted net income of $5.4 million on net sales of $527.6 million for its 13-week second quarter ended Aug. 3, 2013. That compares to income of $33 million on sales of $525.7 million for the same period last ...
Tags: Auto Parts, tyre
Dutch food company Vion has announced plans to consolidate its production operations in Germany in order to improve its overall efficiency. The move is part of the company's new restructuring strategy to further secure the company's ...
Tags: food company, meat cutting
American International Group (AIG) has agreed to terminate an interest rate swap agreement with Brookfield Asset Management in exchange for a payment of $905m. The agreement was part of the remaining derivatives portfolio of AIG Financial ...
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Biotechnology company Amgen has reached a deal to buy all outstanding shares of California-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals for $125 per share in cash. The purchase price of the transaction that is expected to be closed by the beginning of ...
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Software giant SAP has announced that users of its on-premise software solutions can now apply to "abandon usage rights" of "certain existing software licenses", and in doing so enjoy "corresponding maintenance termination" without having ...
Tags: Computer Product, software, SAP
Bermuda-based global diversified insurance and reinsurance holding company Tower Group International (TWGP) has terminated its agreement to acquire American Safety Reinsurance (ASRe), from Fairfax Financial. Without disclosing reasons for ...
Tags: Tower Group, diversified insurance
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that its PE42720 75-Ohm RF switch is now available for broadband cable systems. ...
Tags: switches, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers based in Belgium have developed gold-free nitride semiconductor Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) on 200mm-diameter silicon to complement metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) previously ...
Tags: Barrier Diodes, Electrical, Electronics
US-based General Motors (GM) has adopted into a new purchasing contract which enables the company to recover the cost of safety recalls from suppliers. This new deal will also offer the company access to its supplier's financial ...
Due to strong demand in the global LED lighting market in first-half 2013, the utilization rate of metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) systems that the major chip makers have installed and debugged is rising, according to ...
Tags: China, MOCVD Tool, LEDs, GaN