Indian auto-maker Tata Motors and Volkswagen’s Czech Republic subsidiary Skoda have ended their talks on the development of a new car for the emerging markets. Volkswagen and Tata Motors signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in ...
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The global market for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) reached $426m in 2016, and is expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.5% from $539m in 2017 to $1.8bn in 2022, according to BCC Research’s report ...
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The compound semiconductor market will rise at a CAGR of 11.24% from $40.452bn in 2017 to $68.915bn by 2022, driven by next-generation 5G technologies requiring greater speed and minimum latency, according to a report from Knowledge ...
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German automakers including Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler have agreed to upgrade more than 5 million newer diesel vehicles across Europe and to offer rebates for older models. The upgrades are expected to cut down pollution from diesel ...
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French automaker PSA Group (Groupe PSA) has completed the acquisition of General Motors' (GM) European brands Opel and Vauxhall. With the acquisition now being officially complete, PSA Group has become the second largest automaker in ...
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UK-based private equity firm Mayfair Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in bakery company Promise Gluten Free. Based in Donegal, Ireland, Promise was founded in 2011 by Declan Gallagher, Tom Doyle and Ciaran Lally. Promise is ...
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Didi Chuxing and SoftBank Group will invest up to $2bn to lead Grab’s current financing round, which expects to raise $2.5bn in total. The investment upon completion will allow the ride-hailing company to strengthen its position in ...
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Yole Développement’s ‘RF Power Market and Technologies 2017: GaN, GaAs and LDMOS Report’ forecasts that, after shrinking in 2015 and 2016 as telecom operators invested less, the total RF power semiconductor market ...
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French-automaker PSA Group has received approval from the European Union antitrust authorities for the acquisition of Opel and Vauxhall brands from General Motors. Through the acquisition, PSA plans to make profitable growth not only in ...
Quality OLED televisions are still priced prohibitively highly, setting UK customers back thousands of pounds per set – but is that about to change? When it comes to television panels, the industry gold standard is OLED, or organic ...
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Spending on RF high-power semiconductors for the wireless infrastructure markets continues to flatten out in 2017, despite the fact that the overall market hit well over $1.4bn in 2016, according to ABI Research. While certain market and ...
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The Alkaline Water Company said that it sold a record $1.84m of Alkaline88 water to its customers in May 2017. The Company is the creator of an innovative, state-of-the-art, proprietary electrolysis beverage process. The Company packages ...
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As China's smartphone market is seeing weakening growth, China-based smartphone vendors including Oppo, Xiaomi and Huawei, have been aggressively expanding their products into overseas markets. Oppo currently considers India as one of its ...
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Global technology company Electronics For Imaging (EFI) has acquired CRC Information Systems for an undisclosed price from Reynolds and Reynolds. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona and founded in 1978, CRC provides business management ...
Sexy Tesla sports cars aren’t the only vehicles that deserve the battery treatment – drayage vehicles, school buses, garbage trucks and cargo haulers are also going electric. And the ranks of those medium- and heavy-duty ...
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