German media operator Bertelsmann and English publishing and education service provider Pearson (NYSE: PSO) last Friday declared that merger between Random House affiliated to Bertelsmann and Penguin Group under Pearson has gotten approval ...
New China Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 601336 and SEHK: 1336) said last weekend that it has gained go-ahead from its board of directors to set up an e-commerce unit with a registered capital of CNY 100 million. The plan, though not ...
Tags: China Life, Online Sales Unit
Foreign media said that China and Costa Rica have inked agreement, according to which China will offer loans worth USD 400 million to Costa Rica. Most of the loans come from The Export-Import Bank of China (China Eximbank). The lender ...
Tags: Loans, Costa Rica
While some suppliers have been scratching their heads, wondering where they will set up their booth come September for the Interbike trade show, organizers assured them that the final floor plan for the Mandalay Bay Convention Center will ...
Tags: Interbike, Transportation, Floor Plan
Aruba Networks’ CEO, Dominic Orr, has promised to “fire back” at Cisco, after he attributed underhand tactics — in which the wireless networking vendor’s competitor apparently jeopardised Aruba contracts with ...
The European Commission (EC) announced on June 4 a punitive tariff rate of 11.8% on China-made solar panels and main components such as solar cells and wafers, according to The Wall Street Journal. The tariff rate is lower than expected ...
Britvic's announcement last month that it planned to cut its operational costs by £30M by closing factories at Chelmsford, Huddersfield and a warehouse in Belfast may have been well received by City analysts, but came as a "bitter ...
Tags: Britvic, Job losses, Agriculture&Food
SAP has revealed plans to acquire hybris, a rapidly growing and widely recognised player in the e-commerce technology market. The acquisition positions SAP to deliver the next-generation e-commerce platform, with the choice of on-premise ...
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz indicated Thursday that decisions on at least some of the pending applications to export US liquefied natural gas would be made before the end of the year. During his first appearance before the House ...
Tags: LNG-Export, Chemicals
Jose Maria Magrina, Chief Executive Officer of Arabian Cement Company (ACC) announced that the company has taken all the steps needed to substitute natural gas with coal and refused derived fuel (RDF) as energy sources in its plant. He ...
Tags: Fuel, Metallurgy, Mineral&Energy, Arabian Cement
Tian Huiyu, former head of the Beijing branch of China Construction Bank, was formally appointed by the board meeting held on May 31 to be president of China Merchants Bank (CMB), still pending for the regulatory approval. On the same ...
The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for Celgene International's oral anti-cancer therapy Pomalidomide. The positive results from the MM-003 study of ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GlaxoSmithKline's Tafinlar (dabrafenib) and Mekinist (trametinib) as single-agent therapies for unresectable or metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E mutation. Tafinlar is not indicated ...
Tom Butler, an electrician for the City of Newton Public Buildings Department, uses tape on a sensor to make an LED street light turn on. Newton, Massachusetts - City crews have installed a series of energy efficient LED street lights ...
Tags: LED Street Lights, Lighting
GE Healthcare has obtained 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Administration (FDA) for its Brivo Plus C-arm, which is made available now in the US. The approval is expected to transform healthcare in private practices and rural ...
Tags: Healthcare, Health&Medicine, FDA