Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, says that its EPC2100 family of eGaN ...
Tags: Electronic Products, Electrical
Craft Sportswear North America has named Eric Schenker as its new chief executive officer. Schenker previously held the position of director of sales and marketing and will take over the role of CEO on his 10-year anniversary with Craft. ...
Tags: skiing, biking, running, alpine skiing, Sporting Goods
Graco Inc. has agreed to acquire the stock of Pennsylvania-based High Pressure Equipment (HiP) company for $160 million. The acquisition of HiP is subject to customary regulatory review and Graco expects to complete the transaction in the ...
Posted in Medical Device Business by Nancy Crotti on January 6, 2015 Shareholders of Medtronic and Covidien on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the companies’ multibillion-dollar merger, which will create a new Medtronic based in ...
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis inched up as the import-related loss has turned into a profit, while the import interest has generally stayed thin after the New Year ...
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Cotton from Nigeria is sold at lower prices in the international market, compared to the price of cotton from Burkina Faso, China, and India, BusinessDay reported. The price of Nigerian cotton is less as Nigeria does not produce ...
Jaguar Land Rover has launched three limited edition models of Defender to celebrate different elements of the vehicle's character. The three models include Heritage, Adventure and Autobiography editions, which has already available for ...
Oil closed up on Wednesday for the first time in five days as traders took stock of the market's rout after crude prices lost nearly 10 percent over two days and benchmark Brent fell to below $50 a barrel. A decline in Brent crude futures ...
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Sony has applied its prestigious Walkman brand to a new high-end media player, the Sony Walkman ZX2. Following on from 2013’s ZX1, the Sony Walkman NW-ZX2 (to give it its full name) is a premium product designed to push 24-bit, ...
Xiaomi’s rumoured Mi5 flagship handset will be landing on January 15, if a new teaser poster is to be believed. A Xiaomi-stamped poster has turned up on the firm’s official Weibo page, pointing toward the new date, as spotted ...
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Model horse specialist secures 100 per cent of funding with five days to go. Model horse specialist Utterly Horses has successfully reached its Kickstarter target - well ahead of its original January 5th deadline. The firm was aiming to ...
The consumer public has put out the call, and the hog industry is responding in a big way at the start of what's likely to be a year of major growth for the U.S. hog herd. New data show the breeding herd has climbed by 4%, with the number ...
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China's annual economic growth likely slowed to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter, the weakest since the depths of the global crisis, a Reuters poll showed, which would keep pressure on policymakers to head off a sharper slowdown this year. ...
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An alliance of Australia’s beverage manufacturers has responded to speculation that New South Wales could introduce a Container Deposit Scheme for beverage packaging, saying recent research has shown such schemes are “many times ...
After a troubled year in 2014, the global tablet market is not returning to the levels of growth seen in the last four years as demand for tablets will continue to be slow in 2015. Gartner estimates that worldwide tablet sales will reach ...
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