IBM is offering $4 billion in new credit to customers through its partner channel, and has also developed a new mobile application to help them get financing quickly, the company announced Thursday. The move follows a $1 billion credit ...
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A CNC router benefits private woodworkers in the same ways it benefits companies: by offering topnotch cutting accuracy, great production capacity, and hands-free operation. However, trends in CNC routing change faster for companies than ...
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Taipei, Dec. 28, 2012 (CENS)--The Cabinet-level Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) flashed a yellow-blue light, for the third straight month, for Taiwan’s business status in November, indicating the economy is still ...
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The outlook for the Latin American metals and mining sector in 2013 is mostly stable,although ratings agency Standard&Poor's is expecting metals prices to continue to drop. According to the agency,the prospects for slower global economic ...
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Businesses are reining in their spending on hardware and software amid continued uncertainty in the global economy. Analyst group Gartner has revised down its forecast for spending on hardware and software,despite overall growth in IT ...
The worldwide chip market dropped from being labeled "stagnant" to "in a slump" this year, with one analyst firm downgrading its forecast to a level that puts the entire year in a decline. IHS iSuppli announced Monday that it is ...
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Sony claimed the company's financial struggles were down to the poor state of the global economy,as well as the change in the exchange rate for Japanese Yen. The story was more positive within the mobile products and communications ...
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Global thirst for oil will be slightly stronger than expected in the last quarter of 2012 because of demand from China and despite a sharp cutback in Europe recently. The IEA forecast that the growth of demand next year is expected to be ...
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The fortunes of base metals producers are based primarily on one very big customer China. So it’s little wonder that most stocks associated with producing copper and other metals are stuck in no man’s land right now up from ...
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The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cotton forecast for 2012/13 indicates that global cotton consumption is expected to rise 3 percent from last season’s 8-year low as the global economy experiences a slow recovery. This ...
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Director general of Export Processing Zone Administration (EPZA) W.G. Huang noted that export value, number of firms and employees all have grown in Taiwan’s export processing zones (EPZs), with revenues likely to hit historical high ...
The European Commission (EC) has announced funding for IT research totaling almost €1.5bn. The cash is part of a larger €8.1bn pot the EC plans to invest in various research projects proposed by businesses and organisations ...
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(China Glass Network) With the global economy backing to life, domestic macro-economy shows great potential. The market has the confidence back, too. American GDP is up to 3.1 percent which creates a new record from the 2011. It is the ...
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Commenting on the RBI decision to maintain status quo on CRR and policy rates,Ms Naina Lal Kidwai President of FICCI said that"While disappointing,the status quo is as was widely expected.The recent moderation in inflation ...
In consonance with the economic undulations prevalent in much of the developed world the steel market has been playing second fiddle. With whole of 2012 washed off in guess work about turnaround in the economic crisis in Europe and USA ...
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