A CITY of enchantment, Venice is also besieged with problems. It is threatened by rising sea levels, polluted lagoons and a grim economy. And glassmaking, its most famous industry, has long been sinking along with the city. Murano, an ...
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EE, the joint venture between France Telecom's Orange and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile, is to start offering its business customers data sharing plans across entire fleets of mobile devices. The UK's biggest mobile operator, and currently ...
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The Cabinet Office has admitted that, despite its increased focus on G-Cloud and SMBs for outsourced projects, it still has "some pretty shoddy tech" - also in spite of acquiring "great people" in comparison to how it worked in the past. ...
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Dialog Semiconductor has announced plans to acquire iWatt, a provider of digital-centric power management ICs, for as much as US$345 million. Dialog said it will pay approximately US$310 million in cash, plus up to US$35 million in ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to end-March), Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) has ...
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Taiwan-based AOC International plans to storm India TV market with its low-cost LED TVs. AOC hopes to cash in on Indians' growing fondness for low-cost LEDs. On the cards are 24 warehouses and 20 branch offices across India and a R100-crore ...
Dialog, a provider of highly integrated power management, audio and short-range wireless technologies, announced that it has acquired iWatt, a leading provider of digital power management integrated circuits (ICs), for a cash payment of ...
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OPPOSITION treasury spokesman Joe Hockey says the rapidly falling Australian dollar is having an "immediate negative impact" on business confidence and fuel prices, despite being good for exporters. Mr Hockey said falling interest rates ...
SIOUX CITY | City officials are considering ending curbside glass recycling and encouraging people to cash in bottles for refunds instead. They said decline in the value of glass has made processing it impractical without passing higher ...
THE Australian dollar has regained some ground after dropping below 91 US cents for the first time in almost three years. At 6.30am AEST, the local unit was trading at 90.75 US cents, up from 90.62 cents at yesterday’s local close. ...
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THE Australian dollar is higher after a comment from Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens that caused the local currency to fall to a three-year low was dismissed as a lighthearted remark. At 5pm today, the local unit was trading at 91.06 ...
THE dollar received a fillip yesterday after a top Reserve Bank official said financial markets had misinterpreted comments by governor Glenn Stevens that seemed to indicate another rate cut was imminent. Philip Lowe, deputy governor of ...
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It is reported that Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC) has announced to sign a syndicated loan of US$265 million with 12 banks and it will help the company to manage the cash flow of its raw material investments purpose. The ...
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ArthroCare, a US-based surgical devices, instruments, and implants manufacturer, has completed the purchase of ENTrigue Surgical, a privately held Delaware firm, in an all-cash deal of $45m. ENTrigue is involved in the designing and ...
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US-based Moog has completed the sale of its Buffalo, New York operations of Ethox Medical to Dempsey Ventures. The annual sales from this division are approximately $12m. Ethox Buffalo has 88 full-time employees. There is an after-tax ...
Tags: Ethox Medical, Medicine