BlackBerry has opened a new QNX Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Centre (AVIC) in Canada. The centre was inaugurated by BlackBerry executive chairman and CEO John Chen and he was joined by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Housed ...
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WiTricity is working with General Motors (GM) to test an advanced wireless charging system prototype for electric vehicles. The companies are working together to test WiTricity's Drive 11 park and charge system, designed for maximum ...
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China Investment Corp chief says it is seeking Belt and Road opportunities China's $800 billion sovereign wealth fund aims to be a long-term investor in international investments and increase its close work with partners to seek ...
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China will permit foreign firms to be listed on domestic stock exchanges to expand their financing channels, an official said Friday. The firms will be able to go public on the main board, the SME board, the ChiNext board and debut on the ...
FROM electronics producers to railway contractors, Chinese businesses all face the same problems—promoting their brands overseas. One of China’s most influential commercial symbols, Lenovo, has overtaken HP as the ...
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Minecraft, Microsoft's megahit game, will come to Apple TV by the end of the year. Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook announced the move Thursday at a press event to launch new Macs. He argued that apps are the future of TV, and the Apple TV ...
The first time I saw the Touch Bar on Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops, I thought: hey, there's a little strip of an iPad grafted onto that Mac. Macs don't have touch. At this point, they're the outliers in the computing world. Windows and ...
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The gadget giant is expanding its partnership with Red, an HIV/AIDS advocacy organization founded by U2 singer Bono. "Of course corporations should have values, because people should have values," CEO Tim Cook said in an interview with ...
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If I asked you to tell me about all the tech ads you've seen this year, I wonder how many you'd remember at all. Our attention spans are even shorter than our tempers these days. We block ads. We mute them. We disdain them. How many ads, ...
As they drift off for their one- or two-day vacations shortly, will Apple's senior executives be patting themselves on the back? Or will they be slapping themselves on the forehead? Apple's 2016 was garlanded with the usual hype, but not ...
Toscotec has secured a contract to reconstruct PM1 tissue machine at Correll Tissue facility in Durban, South Africa. The rebuilding of the machine is expected to start in the second half of 2017. Correll Tissue is the primary tissue ...
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DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced that it will sell its global food safety diagnostics business to a Warburg Pincus portfolio company Hygiena. However, the financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition ...
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PSA Group and STAFIM have signed a letter of intent to assemble and sell a Peugeot brand Pick-up truck in Tunisia. This planned assembly plant will start operations in mid-2018, producing 1,200 units annually to meet the demand in the ...
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Sumitomo has entered into an agreement to acquire Irish fruit grower Fyffes for €751m to increase its fruit imports in Japan. The global trading company which imports about 30% of bananas to Japan has offered to buy each of the ...
Frozen poultry products manufacturer Maxi Canada has been acquired by Altamont Capital Partners, a San Francisco Bay Area based private investment firm, for an undisclosed price. Maxi Canada, which is based in St-Lin-Laurentides, Quebec, ...
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