IKEA announced that it is submitting plans for a Miami-Dade store in the City of Sweetwater, Florida as the second South Florida IKEA store and fourth in the state. Pending approvals, construction of IKEA Miami could begin as early as ...
Tags: Ikea, Miami-Dade, Furnishing
China-based LED firms have been producing low-priced LED chips causing oversupply in the upstream LED chip segment to continue.China-based panel maker BOE recently announced plans to set up a new 8.5G production line in Hefei,and also hopes ...
Approved by the State Council,Ministry of Finance,State Administration of Taxation jointly issued a circular,clear from the November 1,2008 increase from the appropriate part of the labor-intensive and high-tech,high value-added commodities ...
Tags: Temporary home furniture, export industry, export rebate rate
For full-year fiscal 2012 (ended 24 June), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $1.16bn, up 18% on $988m for fiscal 2011. This consisted of $757m for LED products (components, chips and materials), $335m for lighting products ...
UK - At the end of June the High Definition Festival was held at Hainault in Essex. In only its second year it has already become one of Europe's leading dance music festivals with nearly 9,000 people turning up to party. Acts included Ms ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LEDs, Light Design Ltd
Epileds, a Taiwan-based maker of AlGaInP and InGaN LED chips for use in LED lighting, on August 13 released financial report for the second quarter of 2012, with net operating profit of NT$61 million (US$2.0 million) hiking on quarter by ...
LED chipmaker Epistar has announced July revenues of NT$1.667 billion (US$55.69 million), a decrease of 3.6% on month but a growth of 14.3% on year. LED packaging house Everlight reported July revenues of NT$1.419 billion, a 4.83% decrease ...
Tags: LED chip
Cree has announced revenue of$306.8 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2012,ended June 24,2012.This represents a 26%increase compared to revenue of$243.0 million reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 and an 8%increase ...
Tags: North America, Cree, Financial, GAAP, LED
For some reason, investors seem to be wary of stocks. It may be because bonds have beaten the stuffing out of stocks for the past 20 years. It may be the stream of scandals plaguing Wall Street. Or it may be that they are Facebook ...
Tags: market view, timber, housing
As part of its Home$ave energy efficiency program, Danville Utilities has partnered with the Danville Lowe's Home Improvement center to reduce the cost of compact fluorescent light bulbs. The bulbs that are eligible under the program ...
Tags: CFL
Computerworld - today announced a new solid-state drive (SSD) targeted at users who want to upgrade older computer systems with a flash drive that boasts a price well under $1 per gigabyte of capacity. Crucial's new v4 SSD, which is ...
Tags: Crucial, Laptops, flash-drive speeds
New Downlights Enable Rapid Payback, Exceptional Light Quality and Efficacy Over Fluorescent and Incandescent Lighting DURHAM, NC -- LED lighting leader Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces a new four-inch CR4™ LED downlight and a ...
Tags: LED Downlights, CR Series, Cree, Commercial Lighting, Fluorescent Lighting
Market research shows that total second-quarter 2012 revenues of publicly traded Taiwan-based LED firms reached NT$25.82 billion (US$861 million), an on-quarter increase of 22.7%. LED firms have been expressing concerns about market ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED TV
Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes gained one point in June from a slightly revised level in the previous month to rest at 29 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index ...
Tags: market view, Builder
Amit Rohatgi,principal architect for mobile at MIPS Technologies, considers the Android apps development landscape and offers a positive view of the significant progress that has been made towards unification. We often hear in the media ...
Tags: android apps, unification, apps marketplace, low prices