China's Bohai Commodity Exchange, a local government-backed online trading platform for spot commodities, plans to launch cross-border trading in yuan for natural rubber and iron ore. It announced the plans in Hong Kong Tuesday during a ...
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Miele Generation 6000 in CleanSteel Miele's new Generation 6000 range of appliances has been so well-received by Australian retailers and consumers,the German manufacturer has had to employ air freight to meet pre-Christmas deliveries,the ...
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Black Ridge Oil & Gas, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCQB: ANFC), a well-positioned exploration and production (E&P) company focused on non-operated Bakken and Three Forks properties, today announced the closing of its previously announced ...
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Apple expects China to overtake the United States as its biggest market, CEO Tim Cook told a Chinese government news agency. "China is currently our second largest market. I believe it will become our first. I believe strongly that it ...
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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
Hon Hai Industry Co. (also known as Foxconn Technology Group) new demonstration plant in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China has begun production on Dec. 15, 2013, according to a report by Chinanews.com. The new plant which took four months to ...
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Senegal hopes to find shale gas in its onshore Paleozoic Basin in the next two years having awarded exploration licenses to international companies, the head of state-owned Petrosen said Thursday. The west African nation, already a small ...
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In an interview with local media, Alonso Ancira Elizondo, President of the Board of Directors of Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA), said that based on new energy reform, Coahuila state has strong growth prospects that could trigger ...
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Harry Choi, Kumho Tire U.S.A.'s CEO and president, was pretty transparent to attendees at the 2013 Kumho Dealer Meeting in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. He admitted Kumho had lost some of its focus, and needed to get back to the basics ...
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The man-made fibre (MMF) makers are looking forward to an increase in consumption in the global textile and clothing industry at an annual growth rate of 3.3 percent by 2020. In an interview with fibre2fashion, Mr. Friedrich Weninger, ...
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This year will go down as the PC industry’s largest contraction, research firm IDC said Monday, with global shipments dropping by double digits and little relief in sight. The dismal numbers will not be welcomed at Microsoft, which ...
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Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has said that the company is quitting the US as a result of repeated official accusations that its networking hardware is used for cyber-surveillance by the Chinese government. In a rare interview, with ...
The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) reported today that economic activity in the manufacturing sector was strong for the sixth straight month. The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure manufacturing activity, headed up 0.9 ...
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It may be years, if ever, before drones are delivering Amazon.com products to people’s doorsteps. But they’ve already been successfully field-tested when it comes to delivering crucially needed medical supplies. Andreas ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jeff Bezos' idea to let self-guided drones deliver packages may be too futuristic for Washington to handle. The Amazon CEO is working on a way to use the small aircraft to get parcels to customers in 30 minutes or less. ...
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