The on-going economic crisis poses a serious challenge to the dialogue between workers' and employers' representatives and governments according to a report published today by the European Commission. The report shows that recent government ...
US-based healthcare company electroCore has raised $40m from Merck's Global Healthcare Innovation Fund. Other participants in the round of financing are private equity groups including Easton Capital and Core Ventures. The company will ...
Tags: Electrocore, Therapy Device, Medicine
Private equity firm Water Street Healthcare Partners has invested in CCBR-SYNARC, to expand its global presence in the pharmaceutical services sector. The investment marks the health care firm's first investment from its new fund, Water ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a final decision to authorise a national Tyre Stewardship Scheme for five years. The aim of the scheme is to reduce the amount of used tyres entering landfill, being illegally ...
Tags: ACCC, National Tyre
Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) has agreed to acquire CyOptics Inc of Lehigh Valley, PA, USA, ...
Spring signals the return of warmer weather, blooming flowers and trees, baseball, and more. And for many of you, it's also when your state or federal tax refund will arrive. Truth be told, you're better off not getting a tax refund. That ...
Tags: Tax Refund, Service
Plessey announced that samples of its GaN on silicon LED products are available. These entry level products are the first LEDs manufactured on 6-inch GaN on silicon substrates to be commercially available anywhere in the world. Plessey is ...
Tags: Plessey, GaN on Silicon, Lighting
Rural telecom and broadband providers in the U.S. face big challenges in connecting their most remote customers, as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission transitions away from old telephone subsidies, a group of providers told ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
A Washington State University research team this month will begin quantifying methane leaks on natural gas lines and use the information to estimate a national methane emissions rate for US gas-distribution systems, WSU said Wednesday. ...
Tags: Methane Leak, Chemicals
"MOVE along now, nothing to see." Constable Plod's old refrain looks an apt way to sum up Criterion's performance in the March quarter, with his "buy" calls rising an average 1 per cent in a quarter in which the broader market surged 5 per ...
Tags: economy
Luxury plug-in hybrid carmaker Fisker Automotive looks set to file for bankruptcy protection in the US as soon as this week, according to latest reports. Under pressure from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to re-pay nearly US$200 ...
Miami, Florida-based Abakan Inc. announced Tuesday that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Cone S.A. for construction of a manufacturing facility to suit large-scale clad pipe manufacture inside the new Suape Export ...
Tags: Abakan, Cone SA, Clad Pipe Plant
A biscuit manufacturer has secured a loan of 276,000 from the Manchester Investment Fund to expand its business and create more than 45 jobs. Hill Biscuits will create more than 45 new jobs after a loan of 276,000 from the Manchester ...
Tags: Biscuit Firm, Biscuit, biscuit manufacturer
Houston, Texas, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 2, 2013 -- HOUSTON – Houston-based Hi-Way Equipment Company LLC, along with Hi-Way Holdings LLC and HWE Real Estate LLC, reported today that they have filed ...
Tags: IH equipment, Hi-Way Equipment
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it is requesting a budget of $4.7bn in 2014, which includes about $295.8m to strengthen food safety. The agency noted that the user fees would fund 94% of the proposed budget ...
Tags: FDA, Food Safety