The shake-out of the mobile phone market has continued with the news that Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic is to discontinue making smartphones. It comes a week after its rival NEC announced a similar withdrawal. However, ...
Tags: mobile phone, Panasonic
In the view of the German sawmill industry, a reduced level of felling puts the competitive capability of the whole wood cluster in Germany at risk. According to the felling figures for Germany for 2012, which were published in June by the ...
Tags: Sawmill Industry, Timber Felling
Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott says the Coalition does not support the Labor Government’s changes to fringe benefits tax (FBT) rules and will not proceed with the policy changes if elected. The government has attracted ...
The Chinese government has been busy probing Western firms this week. On Monday, the country announced it would investigate EU wine dumping into the Chinese market, an action that could see prices hiked on imported wine this year. On ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Sony has hired two former Apple execs as it tries to build momentum behind its latest Xperia smartphones and tablets. Joining Sony's board are Eikoh Harada, the former head of Apple Japan, and Tim Schaff, who worked for the iPhone ...
BSkyB was been warned by the BBC that it could soon be facing charges to carry BBC television signals across its networks, after retransmission fee talks between the two companies broke down. Currently, BSkyB charges the BBC and other ...
Tags: Computer Products, Electrical, Electronics
The redundancies will be at the company’s Boronia site, which employs 363 people. GSK said that it is estimated that 120 jobs will be lost through the transformation. However, it also said that any redundancy will not come into ...
Sony has moved back into profit for the financial year to 31 March, reporting profits of 43bn yen (280m), after four consecutive years of losses. The Japanese firm said it expected earnings to grow by an additional 16 per cent this year ...
Tags: Sony, Computer Products
Forland Shipping announces MV Lewek Inspector launched Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 Forland Shipping proudly launched its new ship MV Lewek Inspector at the Cemre Shipyard in Altinova in Turkey 13th of April 2013. At exactly 11:00 am, Managing ...
Workers at CSR Viridian glass making plants are being deliberately isolated by the Australian Workers Union (AWU) as the company proceeds with its plans to axe more than 200 jobs and shut the Ingleburn, Sydney plant by mid-July. An ...
Tags: Glass Workers, Glass
Unite the union has slammed Coca-Cola Enterprises’ (CCE’s) plan to cut nearly 300 jobs as “a devastating blow”. Unite has called Coca-Cola Enterprises' plan to cut nearly 300 jobs 'a devastating blow' The union ...
The Victorian and South Australian premiers will use today’s Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting to encourage other states and territories to use more Australian-made cars to support the local automotive manufacturing ...
Tags: Victoria, Australian Cars
The South Australian Government will “return to the negotiating table” over its funding deal with Holden after the local car maker earlier this week announced its plan to axe 500 jobs. Following a three-hour meeting with ...
Feedly, which today announced it has added more than 3 million new users to its free RSS service since Google decided to retire Reader, said that it plans to offer a paid option this year. "Over 3 million new users have joined Feedly ...
Tags: Computer Products, RSS service
Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
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