Houston-based Quanex Building Products Corp. has hired Thomas Herriges to serve as general manager of its door and window systems business, effective Monday, January 28. Herriges will oversee all of the company’s door and window ...
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Sugar is among the most important topics within the food industry. Initially a rare and high-priced product, the former white gold has become an excessively used commodity. Nowadays the industry trend is towards a reduction of sugar content ...
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Internet retail colossus Amazon.com has announced the purchase of a text-to-speech technology company in a move evidently aimed at ramping up the capabilities of its Kindle Fire tablet computers. Amazon did not disclose financial terms of ...
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Banks and other financial institutions in the US have been told to establish a "risk management programme" for social media to ensure that key staff do not inadvertently release sensitive information. The programme would ensure that they ...
One of the most colorful booths at the International Builders' Show belongs to Formica, the Cincinnati-based inventor of laminate, which celebrates 100 years in 2013. To mark the milestone, the company is unveiling its new Formica Laminate ...
Nikon Image Space, which goes live January 28, is a new cloud-storage service that allows photographers to store or share images or video using one of two types of free accounts. The basic account, available to anyone regardless of the type ...
The Energy Action Price Index (Business) will give businesses granularity and transparency on retail electricity price fluctuations. The index will be published regularly throughout the year and is based solely on electricity contracts ...
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Garmin International Inc. today announced the Approach S2 GPS golf watch—a sleek, stylish golf watch to expand the already popular Approach Series. The Approach S2 comes preloaded with over 30,000 worldwide courses, and is ready to ...
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The Good Toy Guide is celebrating its official launch at Toy Fair with the announcement of its new mascot: Popcorn the Bear. The play advice site went live in September and recieved such a positive response that the team knew it needed to ...
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Subaru Australia has launched the 2013 Subaru Forester XT with just two trim levels and a downsized 2.0-litre engine. The all-new range-topping Subaru Forester 2.0 XT and 2.0 XT Premium models will take the number of fourth-generation ...
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PPG Automotive Refinish announced that 10,000 distributor partners have now participated in PPG’s Distributor Business Development Program courses. The milestone was reached on December 4, 2012 at PPG’s Excellence in ...
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia may encounter service disruptions as it is migrated to servers at a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Wikimedia Foundation, the host of Wikipedia and other websites, said on Saturday it will move this week ...
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Jungheinrich (Booth 2041) is offering visitors an opportunity to operate its EKX man-up turret truck equipped with Warehouse Navigation. The new system is capable of improving productivity by 25%. Once the operator applies the ...
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The Hyundai HCD-14 Genesis concept has been unveiled at the 2013 Detroit auto show, giving the world an insight into the future design philosophy of the South Korean car maker’s next-generation flagship sedans. Hyundai says the ...
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AWR Corp of El Segundo, CA, USA, a supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) software for designing RF and high-frequency components and systems, has announced AWR Design Environment V10.04. The firm’s first new software ...
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