There were several in the past few months alone – Covidien acquired Given Imaging for $860 million (this is Covidien’s fourth Israeli company acquisition in a little over 18 months); Baxter acquired FlowSense for $9.5 million; ...
Tags: medical technology, medical device
In 1984, with only $25,000 in Chinese government funding and a dusty 20-square-metre bungalow as their headquarters, a small group of scientists in Beijing founded a firm called New Technology Developer Inc. Thirty years later, the tech ...
Tags: Lenovo, Global Ambitions
TiVo said Wednesday that it will acquire Cloud-based content discovery and recommendation service Digitalsmiths. Digitalsmiths offers personalized video search, recommendations and browsing, social trending and mood-based discovery. This ...
(Phys.org) —Advances in light-sheet microscopy have led to impressive images and videos of the brain in action. With this technique, a plane of light is scanned through the sample to excite fluorescent calcium sensors which proxy ...
Tags: LFM, Google glass, Misha Ahrens, microscopy
A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequencing data from 665 people from Europe and East Asia shows that more than 20 percent of the ...
Tags: DNA, Max Planck Institute, Vernot, Human Genome
Carestream plans to showcase a raft of innovation designed to help radiology professionals improve patient care, workflow and costs at The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria. The work-in-progress updates include new ...
Tags: ECR 2014, Medical Imaging
January 29, 2014 How might Lion's next moves affect the Australian dairy industry Food and beverage company Lion has announced that it does not currently intend to sell its shareholding in Victorian dairy company Warrnambool Cheese and ...
Tags: WCB, Lion, Japan K.K, Warrnambool Cheese
What started as a 50-50 partnership with Royal Tire has become a 100% ownership for Fountain Tire Ltd. The acquisition will give Fountain Tire 171 outlets in central and western Canada. The eight Royal Tire locations in northern Ontario ...
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UK-based drinks major Diageo has purchased tequila brand Peligroso from Peligroso Spirits Company, in a move to create a portfolio of variant quality tequilas. Peligroso is a 100% blue weber agave tequila from the highlands of Jalisco, ...
India and Nigeria need to have closer ties in the textiles sector, Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Olusegun Aganga said during a meeting with business delegates from India in Lagos recently. Mr. Aganga said ...
Tags: cooperat, import tariff structure
American Tire Distributors Holdings Inc. (ATD) has purchased Hercules Tire Holdings LLC, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission 8-K filing on Jan. 24. 2014. Hercules Tire Holdings owns 100% of the stock of the Hercules Tire & ...
United Dairy Power, an Australian milk supplier, is in talks with Origo Partners, a Beijing-based private equity firm, over a sale of the company for about $70m. Established in 1999, United Dairy operates two factories at Jervois and ...
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US Steel Canada, a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, announced Friday several management appointments effective February 1, 2014. Anton Jura, who currently serves as president and general manager of US Steel Canada, will ...
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Arkema and Jurong Chemical have formed Sunke, a joint venture in which Arkema will have a majority interest, comprised of the assets of Jurong's acrylic acid production site in Taixing opened in 2012. This acquisition, in the wake of ...
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US-based Berry Plastics has received permit from the competent approval authority in China to acquire controlling interest of Qingdao P&B. The pending registration, associated with the transaction, with the local company registry would be ...
Tags: Berry Plastics, Packaging