As the harsh winter continues, fears of wheat crop damage is underpinning the CME Group's wheat prices Thursday. At the close, the March corn futures contract settled 2 3/4 cents higher at $4.29. The March soybean futures contract ended 2 ...
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Total U.S. healthcare spending in 2012 increased by 3.7 percent -- 0.4 percentage points higher than in 2011 -- the lowest rate since 1960, U.S. officials say. An analysis by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and ...
Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) has slashed more than $15,000 from the price of select models in its range as it enters its final year on the market. Confirmed to close at the end of 2014, Ford Australia’s homegrown go-fast division ...
Low price is low quality. That is not true with the Rockwell band saw. Even if it has a very affordable price, the Rockwell saw is durable and performs reliably and accurately. Low price is equal to low quality. In the advent of ...
Officials at GlaxoSmithKline in England said the company will no longer tie bonuses to sales targets and will phase out paying doctors to speak at conferences. In a statement, the drug manufacturer said it is changing its global sales and ...
Salesforce1 is nothing more than an attempt by Salesforce to smooth over its customer message in the face of falling share value, a Gartner analyst has accused. Speaking to Computing at Salesforce's Dreamforce 2013 conference in San ...
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A recent report by Chinese-language newspaper Commercial Times noted a new phenomenon of Chinese companies headhunting talent in Taiwan's LED industry. Three years ago, Chinese LED manufacturer San’an Optoelectronics uprooted a large ...
Tags: LED Talents, Lighting
The results of Modern’s 6th Annual Salary Survey paint an appealing picture of employment in materials handling, even as young, new talent continues to trickle into the industry. At $95,010, the average base salary is the highest in ...
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It's just like Domino's Pizza: service within a certain window, or you get compensation. Except that it isn't pizza being delivered, it's remanufactured components such as differentials and drive shafts to get your trucks back on the road ...
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Pinnacle Machine Tool Co., Ltd., founded in central Taiwan back in 1976, has released a series of feature-laden five-axis (X, Y, Z, plus B and C axes) CNC machining centers to cater to high-end manufacturers looking for machines that are ...
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Using technology to monitor driver behaviour can result in immediate improvements, but unless there's a benefit to drivers, those improvements may be short-lived. That was what Mike Millian, fleet manager for Hensall District Co-op in ...
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The BBC is to abandon a £98m digital production system and suspend its chief technology officer (CTO), John Linwood, after the organisation's chief executive Tony Hall said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money". ...
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Vistaprint N.V. a leading online provider of professional marketing products and services to micro businesses and the home, today announced that The Boston Business Journal has, for the sixth time, named Vistaprint one of the Best Places to ...
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During the past year, chief financial officers (CFOs) have grown significantly more confident in the U.S. economy, according to the 2013 Spring CFO Survey from Grant Thornton LLP. The survey findings reveal that 45% of respondents believe ...
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The dollar continued to test fresh 11-month lows, extending a week-long decline built on rising concerns about the outlook for the resources-rich economy and renewed strength in the US dollar. Late today, the Aussie was trading at ...
Tags: Dollar Down, Service, Economic Outlook