According to Japan's media report, the negotiation wth Nippon Electric Company and China's largest notebook maker Lenvo has come the the final negotiating stage. It's expected to reach an agreement within this month. The new comany will ...
Tags: NEC, Lenvo, Mobile Phone
The European Commission (EC) announced on June 4 a punitive tariff rate of 11.8% on China-made solar panels and main components such as solar cells and wafers, according to The Wall Street Journal. The tariff rate is lower than expected ...
China will see tariff on watches imported from Switzerland drop 60 percent accumulatively over the coming decade. Chinese premier Li Keqiang paid a visit to Switzerland during May 23 and May 25 and on May 24, China signed a MoU on ...
India-based drugmaker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries is said to be in advanced negotiations to acquire Sweden-based Meda in a deal valued at $5-$6bn. Sources close to the deal were quoted by Reuters as saying that the acquisition will ...
Lenovo is in preliminary negotiations to start a joint venture with an unspecified party, the company said on Tuesday, setting off speculation that the company could be looking to bolster its expanding smartphone business. The Chinese PC ...
Tags: Lenovo, Joint Venture, Smartphone
Glass for Europe, the association of Europe’s manufacturers of building, automotive and solar-energy glass, welcomes the initiation by the European Commission of both an anti-dumping and an anti-subsidy investigation concerning solar ...
Apple appears to face an uphill battle as it goes to trial Monday in New York on e-book price fixing charges brought by the U.S. government. In a courtroom packed to capacity, the company squared off alone against the U.S. Department of ...
Tags: Apple, E-Book Trial
Apple has made progress in cutting deals with music labels for an Internet radio service but time is running out, several reports said today. According to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and others, Apple inked an agreement ...
Tags: Apple, Strike Deals, iRadio
The Spanish Intertextil Council (ICE) and textile federations CCOO and UGT have reached an agreement, which will be signed in the coming days, related to wage increase for the period January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013. The agreement has ...
Tags: Textile Sector, ICE
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — It was a good week for the bedding industry on the mattress recycling front. In Connecticut, the nation's first mattress recycling bill was signed into law by Conn. Gov. Dannel Malloy. The bill, supported by the ...
London-based Stemcor, the world's largest independent steel trader, has hired Simon Freakley as chief restructuring officer, within the scope of negotiations with banks on more than $1 billion of debt, according to Bloomberg. Stemcor will ...
Tags: UK, economics, trading, European Union, Istanbul
Existing-home sales rose in April but remain below underlying demand because of limited inventory and tight credit, according to the National Association of Realtors. All regions are showing strong price gains from a year ago. Total ...
Australia-based iron ore company Centaurus Metals Limited has announced that it will commission its flagship Jambreiro iron ore project in Brazil in mid-2014 instead of at the end of 2013 as originally planned. Centaurus said that it has ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
As of May 28, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 74.15 million mt, indicating an increase of 1.66 million mt or 2.33 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Google is reportedly bidding for crowd-sourced map app provider Waze, igniting a possible bidding war with Facebook. Citing unnamed sources, Businessweek today reported that Google is one of multiple companies negotiating to buy Waze, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software