FACEBOOK has fuelled fresh talk about its interest in mobile phones after the leading social network scheduled a press announcement for next week. Shortly after the Facebook invitation went out for the April 4 event, the technology news ...
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Fueled by acquisitions and new store openings, bedding retailer Mattress Firm recorded a 37% sales increase in the fourth quarter and saw sales top the $1 billion mark in the fiscal year that ended Jan. 29. The fiscal year sales of $1.007 ...
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In 2010, GDP per capita, expressed in terms of purchasing power standards, in the EU27's 270 NUTS-2 regions ranged from 26% of the EU27 average in the region of Severozapaden in Bulgaria, to 328% of the average in Inner London in the United ...
Investors took a record high for US stocks - the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Index eclipsing its pre-global financial crisis peak - as confirmation that the US economic recovery is gathering strength and sent the local market to its ...
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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Photo courtesy of the ABC. The Qantas Group has announced statutory profit after tax of $111 million and underlying profit before tax of $223 million for the six months ended 31 December 2012. This includes $125 ...
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Western European production of ethylene, propylene and butadiene in the fourth quarter of 2012 was down from the same period of 2011, according to the Association of Petrochemical Producers in Europe this week. Ethylene production in the ...
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Today, Epson America enters the dye-sublimation printing market for the first time with the announcement of two roll-fed dye-sublimation transfer printers - the 44-inch SureColor® F6070 and the 64-inch SureColor F7070. The new ...
Epson SureColor F6070 and F7070 Deliver Increased Performance, Reliability, and Profitability to Digital Textile Production Epson America enters the dye-sublimation printing market for the first time with the announcement of two roll-fed ...
Furniture stores used to carry one or two sofa beds in very limited styles. Now entire retail outlets are devoted to sleeper sofas and convertible furniture, and many sofa designs are available both as a regular couch and as a sleeper. ...
Sainsbury's has booked a 3.9% increase in quarterly sales, boosted by the supermarket group's "strongest ever" Christmas trading period. During the three months to 5 February, like-for-like sales increased by 1.5%. The same-store gain ...
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Tech gadgets have proven to be popular Christmas gifts this year, leading the last week of 2012 to see the most new device activations and app downloads in iOS and Android history, a new report has revealed. Flurry, a mobile analytics ...
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Smartphone and tablet owners downloaded a record 1.76 billion iOS and Android apps during the week of Dec. 25 to Dec. 31, a mobile analytics company said Wednesday. According to San Francisco-based Flurry, which projected total downloads ...
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In September 2012, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up 9.2 percent year-on-year (the following growth rates of value added are real growth rates, after deducting price factors), 0.3 percentage ...
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Computer technology accounted for more patent applications in recent years than any other industry sector tracked by the World Intellectual Property Organization, although the number of digital communication patent applications grew faster. ...
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Computer technology accounted for more patent applications in recent years than any other industry sector tracked by the World Intellectual Property Organization, although the number of digital communication patent applications grew faster. ...