Needham, MA -- PTC joined more than 70 partners on Capitol Hill to kick off the 2012-2013 Real World Design Challenge and announce the themes for this year's challenges: Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Next Generation Truck Design. Students ...
Rockefeller Center officially began the Tree Lighting Ceremony in 1933, when a Christmas tree was erected in front of the then-RCA Building and covered with 700 lights. Christmas trees in Rockefeller Center have ranged from 50-foot Pines to ...
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PepsiCo's Frito-Lay snacks division is to invest US$38m in the expansion of its distribution and manufacturing facility in Connecticut. The 370,000 sq ft plant in Killingly, which employs around 600 staff, will benefit from "innovative ...
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US Steel Tubular Products, Inc a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation and Butch Gilliam Enterprises LLC of Midland, Texas, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to form a joint venture to provide tubular services to the ...
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Canadian retailer Metro Inc has appointed François Thibault as group CFO. Thibault takes over from Richard Dufresne from 1 August, who quit the role in February to take up a position at an unnamed company. Thibault joins Metro ...
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On Jan.1,2013,Theresa K.Lee,senior vice president,chief legal and administrative officer will retire after 25 years of distinguished service.Effective upon her retirement,Lee's responsibilities will be assumed by two new executives. David ...
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Hormel Foods has promoted James Snee to lead the US group's international operations. In an announcement today (26 September), Hormel said Richard Bross was retiring as president of Hormel Foods International Corp. Snee's appointment ...
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14nm finfet technology will level the playing field for the fabless community by giving them a process as good as anything available in the IDM community,Mojy Chian,senior vice president for design enablement at Globalfoundries,told the ...
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Nestle USA has appointed Hannah Coan vice president of corporate and brand affairs. Coan will replace Laurie MacDonald who is retiring. Nestle communications chief Scott Remy said she brings a "wealth of experience" to the post and will ...
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Exynos 4 Quad is built on the High-k Metal Gate low-power process technology Samsung Electronics has introduced Exynos 4 Quad, a new quad-core application processor built on the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology. The ...
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The two companies partner to benefit mutual customers across ARM partner ecosystem Electronic design automation (EDA) software and services provide Synopsys had signed a multi year agreement with semiconductor firm ARM to licenses a range ...
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Kellogg has launched a raft of breakfast products in the US, including new Mini-Wheats, Pop Tart and Special K lines. The company has developed the first non-shredded cereal for its Mini-Wheats brand and added a "new take" to its Pop-Tart ...
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Wal-Mart Stores has announced it will create 4,000 jobs in Canada this year, in a bid to support the company's growth plans. As a result of the job creations, Wal-Mart will employ 94,000 staff by January 2013. The news forms part of the ...
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Will allow interoperability of process design kit ecosystem Synopsys has completed the acquisition of Ciranova, a privately held electronic design automation (EDA) company, to accelerate advancements in its custom integrated circuit (IC) ...
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'Roadrunner' supports the AMD Opteron 6000 Series processors Semiconductor company AMD has unveiled a new Open Compute Project server platform specification, code named 'Roadrunner,' which is designed to meet the general purpose compute, ...
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