European airlines and airports are facing fundamental changes: The increasing popularity of low-cost carriers and airlines from the Middle East is changing the competitive landscape. Leisure and business travelers' strong price sensitivity ...
Tags: Transportation, Airlines
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently applauded Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) for introducing bipartisan legislation to encourage residential construction lending, spur job growth and keep the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Dairy Crest is poised for UK growth after the sale of its French spreads business, chief executive Mark Allen has confirmed. Dairy Crest results were 'modestly ahead of expectations', said Panmure Gordon Allen said: "The sale of our ...
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Intellectual property theft, predominantly by Chinese computer hackers, costs the US economy $300bn (£200bn) a year and must be treated as seriously as terrorism. That's according to The Commission on the Theft of American ...
Plush and plastic products based on hit app game due. Character Options has been named UK toy partner for Plants vs Zombies. The company will distribute Jazwares' range of licensed plush and plastic toys in the UK, which is "already ...
Tags: bulldog, character options, plants vs zombies, plush
Toshiba International Corp. is acquiring all assets and intellectual property of Hamilton, Ont.-based Elettra Technology Inc. (ETI), a manufacturer of custom electrical industrial motors. "We at Toshiba International look forward to the ...
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Apple will build Macs in Texas using some parts made in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday, putting a little flesh on a pledge from last December. In a prepared statement Cook read before a Senate subcommittee yesterday, the chief ...
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Florida-based holding company Homeowners Choice has changed its name to HCI Group, Inc., following approval from shareholders. Change to the company's name is expected to provide several benefits, including improved representation of the ...
Tags: HCI Group, Homeowners Choice
With vacancy rates modestly falling and rents moderately rising in commercial real estate sectors, market fundamentals have improved, but financing remains a challenge for small business, according to the National Association of Realtors ...
The U.S. government should bar foreign companies that repeatedly steal or use stolen U.S. intellectual property from selling their products in the country, a new report recommended. About US$300 billion worth of intellectual property is ...
Tags: US, Foreign Firms, Intellectual Property
The S&P/ASX200 has closed down 2 per cent at 5062.4, as slower Chinese manufacturing activity in May combined with signs that the US Federal Reserve could start rolling back its bond-buying program to send the local sharemarket to its ...
Designs for more than two dozen advanced U.S. weapon systems, including missile defenses, combat aircraft and ships, were reportedly accessed by Chinese hackers. The systems were listed in a previously undisclosed section of a report ...
Tags: US, Chinese Hackers, Weapons System
The sharemarket suffered its sharpest one-day fall for two months yesterday after the US Federal Reserve said it could reduce its economic stimulus measures and China's manufacturing showed signs of contraction. "In the next few meetings ...
A proposal in Taiwan to enforce copyright laws by blocking access to top piracy sites is facing concerns that the measures could impinge on Internet freedoms on the island. The intellectual property office of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic ...
Tags: Anti-Piracy Proposal, Taiwan, SOPA
The U.S. International Trade Commission has turned down a request for a ban on Microsoft's Xbox after finding that the gaming device did not infringe a patent owned by Google's Motorola Mobility unit. The ITC's ruling Thursday has ...