December is the time of year when the big fleets and leasing companies in North America are in the market to buy big rigs, according to Americas Commercial Transportation (ACT) research. “December Class 8 orders were up 50 percent ...
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The Japan and the US markets directly or indirectly accounted for 50% and 30% of total orders received by Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers in 2013, according to industry sources. The total capacity of PV systems ...
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BlackBerry has filed a copyright infringement suit against a company co-founded by Ryan Seacrest that makes a keyboard case for the iPhone. On Friday the struggling smartphone maker filed a lawsuit against Typo Products LLC, a company ...
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Ken James/Bloomberg News Factory orders increased 1.8% in November, the Commerce Department reported Jan. 6. The rise followed a revised 0.5% decline in October. The increase was greater than economists’ forecast of a 1.7% rise, ...
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Bruce Harmon/Trans Pixs The Class 8 truck industry ended 2013 on a high note with about 31,800 new orders in December, a 50% jump from the same month a year earlier, ACT Research reported. Last month's net orders tally was a 50% ...
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Spreadshirt shipped around 3 million products worldwide in 2013 before the traditionally strong Christmas period. The leading e -commerce platform that lets anyone create, buy, and sell ideas on products consumers love to wear, use, and ...
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UK manufacturers can beat China on price, quality and service, as Bolton based contract electronics manufacturer, Ability Tec, has proved. This social enterprise company was born out of a former Remploy Electronics factory and three ...
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Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Lextar Electronics had December consolidated revenues of NT$1.098 billion (US$36.6 million), a decrease of 5.84% on month but an increase of 51.88% on year, while LED packaging house Unity ...
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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all packed within a space smaller than Earth's orbit around the ...
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Mazor Robotics, the developer of Renaissance, an innovative surgical guidance system and its complementary products, announced orders of two Renaissance systems in late December, ending the 2013 fourth quarter with a total of seven system ...
An HSBC survey showed on Thursday that the final reading of China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) stood at 50.5 in December, in line with its preliminary estimate. The data was down from 50.8 in November. A figure above ...
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China’s manufacturing activities in private and export-oriented companies grew in December at the slowest pace in three months, the latest evidence that structural reforms have slowed China’s economic growth, a survey showed ...
Americas Commercial Trucking (ACT) Research says December 2013 North American Classes 5-7 net orders are expected at 14,200 units (±5%) and Class 8 net orders are expected at 31,800 units (±5%), when actual data are released ...
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Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. is accusing a company backed by "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest of being a rip-off artist. The allegations emerged in a patent infringement lawsuit filed Friday in a San Francisco federal court ...
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John Lewis publishes its five-week trading update, revealing that the retailer saw both bricks and clicks break records. For the five weeks to 28 December 2013, total sales were £734m, 7.2 per cent up compared with last year, 6.9 ...
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