The line launches with two devices, one for pre-school children and one for kids in the first years of primary school. LeapFrog has unveiled its new interactive learning system, LeapStart, an activity book concept designed to help kids ...
Volkswagen has secured approval from Germany’s federal motor transport authority, Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), to fix emissions software on several models. The company has already sent a letter to all of the affected owners, ...
Tags: Volkswagen, noise emissions
US-based diversified holding company HC2 Holdings has made an offer to buy agricultural company Andersons for $1bn in cash. The offer, which was made through a letter, valued Andersons' shares at $37 per share, a 43% premium on closing ...
Tags: HC2 Holdings, ethanol, rail sectors
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working on revising the regulations related to the use of terms such as ‘healthy’ on food labels by manufacturers. The FDA has completed collecting inputs on how it should define ...
Tags: Food Labels, FDA
Memjet will be showcase high-speed, digital color printing technology that deliver the speed, ease of use, and low cost of ownership that companies, at drupa 2016. In the Memjet stand, attendees can see the power of this technology at ...
Fanatics has signed a long-term extension of its deal to operate the e-commerce site for the National Football League while also expanding its online and manufacturing rights with the league. Beyond continuing to operate nflshop.com and ...
Tags: Fanatics, NFL, National Football League
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the federal government will begin measuring and quantifying the ecoomic impact of the outdoor recreation economy when calculating gross domestic product. Jewell, who served as CEO for REI before ...
The Ministry of Public Security will introduce special vehicle license plates for new-energy cars to further promote industry growth and regulation in China. The ministry has started soliciting public opinion on proposed designs for the ...
Tags: New-Energy Vehicles, EV
BAIC BJEV, a new energy automaker in China, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement for Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) in the Council Chamber of the state ...
Tags: Electric Cars, energy automaker
Transilwrap Company, a manufacturer of specialty film products, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the specialty films business of US based Dow Chemical. Dow's specialty films business provides film solutions used in medical, ...
Tags: Transilwrap, Film products, Dow Chemical
Iconix Brand Group Inc. reported a loss of $263 million, or $5.44 a share, after charges of $402.4 million to writeoff the company's trademarks and goodwill. Over 90 percent of the impairment is related to the company's men's business ...
Google has laid out a proposal to bring self-driving cars to market in the United States sooner rather than later. In a letter to transport officials, Google has requested new rules enabling autonomous vehicles that pass federal safety ...
Tags: Google, Self-driving car
Pershing Square, a hedge fund run by investor Bill Ackman, has sold 20 million shares of US-based confectionery giant Mondelez International. Following the sale, the investor now owns only a 5.6% of the confectionery company. In a ...
Tags: Pershing Square, Bill Ackman, Mondelez
International Paper, a US based pulp and paper company, has signed an agreement to divest its corrugated packaging business to Xiamen Bridge Hexing Equity Investment Partnership Enterprise, for approximately $150m. Under the terms of the ...
Matrox Imaging has introduced Matrox SureDotOCR, an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology designed to address the challenges of using inkjet-printed, dot-matrix text in vision inspection applications. The OCR technology will be ...