The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) today announced a three-year communications effort to educate consumers. The goal is to reach beyond the seed industry to educate the general public about the role of seed and seed improvement in ...
Tags: Seed Improvement, Agriculture
Prices of both imported and domestically-produced LPG fell another 9-12% in China this week after sliding 10-13% last week amid lower Asian LPG values and weaker demand from the petrochemical sector, trade sources said Friday, December 12. ...
Kinsa, a New York City–based maker of an FDA-cleared smart thermometer has won $9.6 million in Series A financing, which includes funding from Kleiner Perkins and others. The company’s thermometer can plug into a smartphone ...
Tags: horsepower, display, Health
Posted in Regulatory and Compliance by Kristopher Sturgis on December 12, 2014 Bill Maisel, director of science at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, holds CRM devices. Earlier this week the science chief of ...
Tags: Medical Device, Drug Administration, Health
When we first reported on Elizabeth Holmes, the 30-year-old CEO of the secretive blood-testing firm Theranos, we hadn’t heard much about her. Now, she’s seemingly everywhere. A recent New Yorker article was likely the longest ...
Tags: Superstar, blood-testing, Health
Textiles has the lion’s share in India’s exports from labour intensive sectors, according to data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, under the Ministry of Industry and ...
Tags: Labour Intensive, textile sector
MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV) has received a grant to provide its Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS) to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in projects to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. MEMSCap Medication Event Monitoring System ...
Tags: Monitoring System, Packaging
According to the data from US Commerce Department, US retail sales keeps growing in November due to the rebound of auto sales in the US. The data says that US retail sales increases 0.7% to $44.93 billion. The growth rate of retail sales ...
Tags: Retail Sales, Auto Parts
GlobeNet, a wholesale provider of Latin and North America data network services, has deployed the DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform of Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital ...
Tags: Transport Network, Electrical
The Cotton Association of India (CAI), a cotton trade body, has downwardly revised India’s 2014-15 season cotton output to 402 lakh bales (of 170 kg each) in its November estimate, from its earlier estimate of 405.50 lakh bales. ...
Tags: cotton trade, Textile
There's less corn and fewer soybeans on hand in the U.S. right now than the trade expected heading into Wednesday's monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production report. Wednesday's WASDE report shows a ...
Tags: Grain Prices, Corn, Soybean
Australian medical and nutrition experts have reacted differently to the research findings of a study published December 2014 in the British Medical Journal. The study showed the Mediterranean diet appears to be associated with longer ...
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Swiss car maker Rinspeed is planning to unveil its self driving car named Budii at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. Rinspeed has teased the car design with two sketches of the vehicle which will be electrically powered and will include ...
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YouTube has finally added the ability to watch its videos offline, but there are a couple of major caveats. For one thing, the ability is only available on YouTube's Android app for now. That's perhaps understandable given that Google ...
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Nokia has relaunched its highly-rated Here Maps application on the Google Play Store. The Finnish firm, free from the shackles of creating hardware following the Microsoft buyout, has been turning its attention to software with Maps at ...
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