A patent application filed by Google last year provides a detailed look at some of the metrics the company considers when ranking news stories and deciding how prominently to display them on its Google News page. The application, filed in ...
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Amazon Web Services has made available to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise deployments. Amazon Redshift was first announced as a limited preview at the AWS ...
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The Lightmoves Group of companies, which includes Lightmoves, Resolution X, Balanced Technology and Browns Precision Welding, has successfully completed the acquisition of the stock, assets, and hire assets of Lots of Watts (LOW), and is ...
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Cake maker Finsbury Food Group has reported relatively flat sales for the half year to December 29, up marginally to 103.3M compared with 102M for the same period of the previous year and in-line with management expectations. Finsbury's ...
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Jack Burden, of the Consumer Electronics Advisory Group, has addressed the critical question in TV technology that will be on the minds of TV shoppers in 2013. Plasma or LED? Which is better? He conducted in-depth tests to determine just ...
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E.Volution, the platform that unites latest generation technology and environmental responsibility with the ultimate in creativity. This is the birth of a new way of producing and thinking about printing fabrics, where the long business ...
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A NASA spacecraft is sending back evidence that a deep crater on Mars once held a groundwater-fed lake. The information is further evidence that the Red Planet has a history of water. Last fall, NASA scientists discovered evidence ...
Huntsman Textile Effects and DyTech Taiwan announced a collaboration that is set to drive sustainable excellence and world-class standards of high quality dyes and specialty chemicals for the Taiwan textile industry. Huntsman Textile ...
LAS VEGAS — Educational seminars at the Las Vegas Market will give buyers a chance to soak up an array of ideas, advice and information about the home furnishings business. Here's a rundown of the dates, times and locations. All ...
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South Korea has diversified its sources of rare earth minerals in order to diminish reliance upon monopoly supplier China,which currently accounts for over 90%of global production. Global Times reported last month that South Korea's ...
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The World Trade Organization will investigate China's quotas and tariffs on rare earth minerals following prompting from the US, EU and Japan, who allege the export restrictions are in contravention of international trade regulations. ...
A Yorkshire baker is appearing on BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den on December 23 in a bid to secure the backing she needs to make her premium cakes a national brand. Whitmarsh is targeting the coffee shops of Selfridges and John ...
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China's strangehold on the global supply of rare earth metals is shaking up diplomatic and trade ties in Asia as rival economies seek alternative sources of the key industrial materials. World Politics Review (paywall) reports that ...
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The volume of rare earth minerals legally exported from China for the first half of 2012 plunged by 42.7% year-on-year to hit 4,908 tonnes according to statistics from China's customs authorities. According to the US edition of the China ...
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Karl Lagerfeld launching Shu Uemura beauty line After the capsule line for French beauty chain Sephora, Karl Lagerfeld’s next beauty partnership in his endless series of collaborations is a line with Shu Uemura, the international ...
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