Rocket Dog, the maker of women's and children's footwear, hired Scott Weaver as its vice president of sales. Weaver comes to Rocket Dog with a relevant background in sales and strategic management in the kids' space with his experience ...
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Tom Strickland/Bloomberg News Engine maker Cummins Inc. confirmed that it has "paused" the development of its planned 15-liter natural-gas engine due to "market timing uncertainty." The company said it will re-evaluate the demand and ...
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Plastic injection mould could be the strategy that is used inside the production of plastic zones. In the present day this is the actual needs for each small and large business person. The style and outline proficiencies have manufactured ...
Google has acquired Nest, a company that makes a home thermostat that can be programmed from mobile phones, for US$3.2 billion in cash, Google said on Monday. The founders of Nest, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, “have built a ...
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Tablet consumers have taken as big a bite out of Mac growth as they have out of personal computers in general, showing that Apple is not immune to the seismic shift it triggered with the iPad. During the 12 months preceding 30th September ...
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US PVC maker Axiall will raise its suspension grade PVC prices on February 1 by 3 cents/lb, or as contracts allow, the company said Friday in a letter to customers. The increase follows a similar announcement from December 3, when the ...
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Hybrid Technology, led by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li, has bid $55 million for Fisker Automotive's assets, just days after a bankruptcy judge in Delaware rejected Hybrid's plan to take over the failed electric-vehicle maker in a ...
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The Antigua Group, Inc., the maker of lifestyle and golf apparel, is celebrating its 35th anniversary throughout 2014. As part of the celebration, the company's Tour Ambassadors will be wearing a 35th Anniversary logo on their garments ...
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Analysts at both Gartner and IDC reported the seventh straight quarter of declining PC shipments, although both firms saw a light at the end of the tunnel. Of the top PC vendors, Lenovo widened its lead over HP and Dell on a worldwide ...
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The Formula One-infused Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge concept has been unveiled at the 2014 Detroit auto show, with the car maker’s boss suggesting a high-powered engine could find its way into a future production version. Designed to ...
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Holden may follow Ford Australia’s lead in offering right-hand-drive versions of its parent company’s iconic US-built muscle cars, including the Camaro and Corvette, to fill the hole created by the loss of its homegrown sports ...
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The Volkswagen Beetle Dune concept previews the German car maker’s vision for a mild crossover based on the latest version of its iconic small car and inspired by beach buggies of the past. The tougher-looking, harder-wearing Beetle ...
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The all-new GMC Canyon has been revealed a day ahead of its official Detroit auto show debut, aiming to set new standards for refinement in the US market’s mid-size truck segment. Based on the new Chevrolet Colorado that debuted at ...
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The 2014 CES will be remembered as the year when 3-D printing arrived. Sure, there were plenty of grizzled veterans around who were willing to point out, as 3-D Systems' Avi Reichental did, that "3-D printing is an overnight success 30 ...
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There's long been concern that certain drugs taken to control seizures might be unsafe for use by pregnant women, due to potential effects on the fetus. Now, new British research suggests that the drug levetiracetam does not pose a major ...
Tags: Weighs Safety, Epilepsy Drugs, Safety of Epilepsy Drugs in Pregnancy