US auto maker General Motors (GM) has signed an agreement with Belgian firm Punch Metals to sell its transmission plant in Strasbourg, France, as part of its effort to slash losses in Europe. Under the agreement, the Belgian firm will ...
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Italian carmaker Fiat is planning to invest $1.3bn in its Melfi facility in Italy to manufacture two new car models including a new Jeep and a Fiat 500X models. The investment forms part of the carmaker's plan to slash losses in Europe ...
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Today, Concurrency, Inc. announced it has been named to Microsoft's elite Azure Circle, a group of specialized Microsoft partner organizations that provide deployment planning services for organizations migrating to the public cloud. ...
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A glut of manufacturing capacity and near-collapse in rare earth metal prices is driving down the cost and hence encouraging the rapid take-up of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting. LED lights are based on semiconductors and therefore do ...
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Fife Council will slash £2.4m from its network infrastructure costs over the next four years by moving to a public services network (PSN). The council signed the deal with Updata for a managed network services and expects to see a ...
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Despite widespread calls for more spectrum to carry mobile data, there is a wide range of technologies already being used or explored that could help to speed up networks or put off the day when more frequencies need to be cleared. ...
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Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo is planning to slice its trucks production following the 17% slump in its global sales in November 2012. During the month, truck deliveries in Europe declined 13% to 3,835 units, while deliveries in ...
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The number of convenience stores in Taiwan may top 10,000 next year, boosting their total sales to a level higher than department stores and enabling them to become the leading retailer on the island, thanks to decision of President Chain ...
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Toshiba said Tuesday it will soon begin mass production of a new line of hybrid disk drives equipped with flash memory, touting them as a low-cost replacement for the solid-state drives used in ultrabook and laptop computers. Hybrid ...
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LETN, the leading IT specialists, warn businesses of the spiralling costs and inefficiencies of data proliferation. Without NetApp's innovative new storage strategies, companies will be losing time, productivity and money. By some ...
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CommVault Systems, has announced its participation at GITEX Technology Week 2012. The company will be showcasing the latest version of its data management software, Simpana 9 that was unveiled during the early part of this year. Colin ...
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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh (WWL) NHS trust moved its systems into the cloud to solve immediate business challenges and prepare for a future of shared services. Last year WWL NHS trust was faced with major IT challenges as its ...
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China's Ministry of Land and Resources has slashed its rare earth mining rights by around a half from 113 to 67 points. The Morning Whistle reports that a new report by the research institute Jufeng Info Co., says that the new policy will ...
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Britain is facing a “dessert deficit” to rival the economic deficit, claimed Owen Paterson MP, secretary of state at the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. Paterson made the quip at last night’s Food ...
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A US 'activist' investor who has stamped his authority on Heinz, Cadbury and Kraft has taken a euro242M (€300M) stake in Danone, vowing to improve its profitability. Nelson Peltz, the head of Trian Partners, said the maker of ...