Microsoft says it has begun switching Hotmail accounts to Outlook.com as it officially launches its revamped email service. Microsoft's move follows a test phase in which it adapted the service to try and better serve lifestyles that ...
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Russia-based Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, has announced that it plans to invest US $1.3 billion in 2013 to support its growth and long-term competitive strategy. ...
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BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc has won its first testing contract for the company’s mobile Sulf-IX pilot plant with an industrial company. The test work will be carried out at a customer site in the US and will focus on the ...
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Prime Minister Gillard … ‘tough but responsible’ Business and industry groups have expressed concern at the federal government proposal to strip $1 billion in tax concessions from Australia’s biggest companies as ...
The dollar was higher late today after the central bank signalled that, while another interest rate cut was possible, it was in no mood to deliver it just yet. At 4.05pm AEDT, the Aussie was trading at $US1.0324, up from $US1.0296 late ...
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The sharemarket closed at its highest level in more than four years, with gains across the board. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index had risen 18.5 points, or 0.37 per cent, to 5081.9 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had added ...
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Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced that it has signed a series of agreements for the disposal of its Romanian steel assets - Ductil Steel Mechel, Campia Turzii S.A., Mechel Targoviste S.A., Mechel East Europe Metallurgical ...
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Australia-based mining and materials company Arrium Limited has issued its financial results for the first half ended December 31 of the financial year 2012-13. In the first half, Arrium posted a net loss of A$445.2 million, compared to a ...
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Sweden-based mining and exploration company Dannemora Mineral has issued its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2012. In the fourth quarter, the company registered a net loss of SEK 104.4 million ($1.65 million), ...
Beijing-based Chinese steel giant Shougang Group has announced that in January of the current year the outputs of pig iron, crude steel, finished steel and iron ore concentrate at its subsidiary Shougang Tonggang Group were equivalent to ...
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Clariant announced full-year sales 2012 from continuing operations of CHF 6.038 billion compared to CHF 5.571 billion in the previous-year period. This corresponds to an increase of 8% in local currencies and in Swiss francs. The 8% ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in 2012 total mining production in South Africa was 3.1 percent lower compared with 2011. The fall in annual mining production followed a decrease of 0.9 percent in 2011 ...
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Russian steel producer Severstal has announced that production restarted on Friday, February 15 at its Vorkutinskaya mine following last week’s explosion, except for one affected area where production will remain suspended for 90 days ...
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Facebook has admitted that laptops belonging to its employees were recently infected by malware, blaming a zero-day Java exploit for the incident. Users of the social network will be concerned that their private data may have been ...
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The Australian sharemarket rose to a fresh four-and-a-half year high today as positive domestic earnings reports and further signs of improvement in the global economy encouraged investors to continue moving money from cash and bonds to ...
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