WorldPay, a player in payment processing, risk and alternative payments, has announced that Microsoft is using its alternative payments programme to capture growth in China, following an agreement to allow consumers in China to purchase ...
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New Look announces full year results for the 53 weeks to 30th March 2013.New Look EBITDA jumps 29% driven by successful turnaround and 50% increase in online sales. Financial Highlights - Group Sales +2.5% to £1.48bn Group ...
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The wholesale dollar value of bedding shipments increased 8.5% in April and bedding units jumped 10.7% that month, the International Sleep Products Assn. reported. But that strong performance was not enough to pull ...
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According to Japanese media reports, Japan's Mazda Motor Corp published sales of April in May, 30. Due to the increasing sales of passenger car and commercial vehicle, domestic sales of Mazda in April increase by 1.9% M-O-M, reaching ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced a new strategy that could lead to A games that A run in the future across PCs and games consoles like the Xbox and PlayStation. AMD's next-generation chip code-named Kaveri The company announced ...
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SAP is buying privately held Hybris in a bid to build out an e-commerce software offering that connects with customers across multiple "channels, devices and touch points." Terms of the deal, which was announced Wednesday, were not ...
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Retail sales in April were down for a third consecutive month at independent bike shops, according to Leisure Trends’ RetailTrak IBD sales summary. Sales—bicycles and related parts and accessories—totaled $360 million for ...
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Emerging markets and lower prices will push worldwide smartphone shipments close to the billion-unit level this year, according to the latest forecast by IDC. That company is predicting total smartphone sales of 958.8 million for the ...
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According to Japan's media report, the negotiation wth Nippon Electric Company and China's largest notebook maker Lenvo has come the the final negotiating stage. It's expected to reach an agreement within this month. The new comany will ...
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Should Microsoft merge its smartphone and tablet/laptop/desktop operating systems into one substantial OS? It's not just a theoretical question prompted by an older "write once, run anywhere" development mindset. Merging the Windows Phone ...
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There has been some uneconomic duplication of facilities such as loading jetties at the three LNG export projects being built on Curtis Island offshore the eastern Australian port of Gladstone, a senior executive at one of the projects ...
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Europe will see no new companies with the power of Apple or Facebook for some while yet, Parallels virtualisation platform founder Serguei Beloussov (pictured) has said, amid a grim outlook for the existing crop of technology giants. ...
Till last month, the first tailor laser welder in China, jointly developed by CAS Shenyang Automation Institute and Baosteel, has accumulatively welded over 65,000 pieces, reaching the international level, which indicates that the domestic ...
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Lenovo is in preliminary negotiations to start a joint venture with an unspecified party, the company said on Tuesday, setting off speculation that the company could be looking to bolster its expanding smartphone business. The Chinese PC ...
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The rise of the "hybrid consumer" is an emerging trend with significant implications for food companies, food retailers and foodservice companies. According to a new report from Rabobank, consumers are becoming less interested in ...
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