Intel's fourth-quarter net income rose 6 percent, as the company offset flat demand for its personal computer chips with higher sales of other products. The world's largest chipmaker earned $2.63 billion, or 51 cents per share, up from ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
This is a rebound from a 2.5 percent annual decline in 2012 driven mainly by strong growth in DRAM and NAND flash memory markets, the market research firm said. These are expected to rise by 35.0 and 27.7 percent respectively in 2013. This ...
Tags: Chip Market, semiconductor
A project funded by the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA) is helping to encourage Mexican meat processors to diversify their ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat meal offerings to include more U.S. poultry as a main ingredient. ISA – the ...
Tags: Soybeans, U.S.Soybeans, Value-Added Poultry, Egg Exports
In 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that more than 500 people were sickened by seven strains of Salmonella Heidelberg linked to chicken. However, salmonellosis caused by Salmonella Heidelberg is only ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Health, Medicine
Octal, an Oman-based manufacturer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins and integrated PET sheets, will supply DPET/PE trays to Saudi Arabia-based foods major Almarai. Almarai will use the DPET/PE trays in the packaging of its ...
Tags: PE Trays, Poultry Product
Soybeans were higher on fund and commercial buying, along with spillover from corn. 2013 soybean production was up on the year and larger than expected at 3.29 billion bushels, while quarterly stocks were up on the year, but ending stocks ...
Tags: Corn, Corn Futures Prices, Prices Jump
Soybeans were mixed ahead of Friday's USDA numbers. USDA's expected to report a big crop Friday, but that may be moderated by an increase in their export estimate, with the reports out at Noon Eastern/11 AM Central. China bought more U.S. ...
Tags: Grain, Grain Futures, USDA Reports
A bold plan for boosting canola production was unveiled by the Canola Council of Canada yesterday. After reaching its "Growing Great 2015" target of 15 million tonnes of annual production two years early, the organization that represents ...
Tags: Tonnes, Canola, Canada Agriculture
Gadget lovers are slipping on fitness bands that track movement and buckling on smartwatches that let them check phone messages. Some brave souls are even donning Google's geeky-looking Glass eyewear. For the technology industry, this ...
Tags: smartwatches, technology industry, wearable computing devices, eyeglasses
Pulses have captured the attention of the United Nations. The UN General Assembly voted to declare 2016 as the "International Year of Pulses." "This is an extraordinary opportunity for the global pulse industry" declared Gordon Bacon, CEO ...
The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) today announced a new 10-year plan to capitalize on the world's growing appetite for healthier oils and protein. Terry Youzwa, Chairman of the CCC Board of Directors, said the plan is aimed at increasing ...
Tags: Canola Industry, New Targets
Tis the season for analysts to look back at the nearly completed calendar year and to engage in speculation regarding the forthcoming year. In that spirit, I first encourage readers to make use of the growing list of available resources ...
Tags: Wrap-up, Look Forward
German automaker Audi is set to equip its future vehicles with three new in-vehicle systems powered by the NVIDIA Tegra Visual Computing Module (VCM) from NVIDIA. The three systems include a connected infotainment system; the world's ...
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Like an impatient teenager, self-driving car technology will be ready to hit the road well before authorities are ready to license it, predict a pair of studies released last week. That may not be such a bad thing, write researchers at ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Lenovo has announced several new desktop PCs at CES, and in a move that’s sure to give Microsoft heartburn, one of these new machines is an all-in-one that runs the Android operating system, not Windows. Here is a rundown of what it ...
Tags: Android, Lenovo, Consumer Desktop