Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), the biggest online search service provider in the Chinese mainland, is said to complete the acquisition of domestic online video website PPS soon. People in the know disclosed in an interview recently that ...
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Chinese oil and gas producer PetroChina Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 601857 and SEHK: 0857) has not made a final decision on whether to participate in an auction Iraq plans to hold for the Nassiriya oil field on December 19 this year. The Iraqi ...
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Chinese coal miners plan to lobby concerned authorities to release tariff policies to restrict coal import of the nation. People in the know said in an interview on April 17 that coal miners in the market planned to lobby concerned ...
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Japanese home appliance retailer Yamada Denki will see a store in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, formally shut down on June 1. It said in the afternoon on April 22 that the store in Nanjing performed not well due to a supply chain ...
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While US policymakers, legislators and others are focused on whether the fundamentals of US gas market would change significantly if large volumes of LNG are exported, there are emerging questions about the federal government's ability to ...
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Microsoft's failure thus far to significantly spark PC and tablet sales with Windows 8 has put high expectations on an expected 2013 refresh of the OS, dubbed "Blue." But changes to the operating system's feature set, tweaks to its user ...
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With the BlackBerry Q10 qwerty smartphone coming to the U.S. market in late May, it's fair to ask: How many customers will want to buy it? The BlackBerry Q10 has a physical keyboard that is still preferred by many Blackberry users. ...
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Big data is not yet being embraced, according to Adrian Asher, chief information security officer (CISO) of the Skype division at Microsoft. Asher told delegates at Infosecurity Europe 2013 that big data is currently just a buzzword used ...
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Technology firms including Facebook and Microsoft have welcomed government plans to provide funding for improving the teaching of computer science in schools. Education minister Elizabeth Truss announced £2m will be set aside to ...
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The BlackBerry Q10 with its physical keyboard is expected to be available from major U.S. carriers in late May at a suggested price of $249 with a contract, a BlackBerry spokeswoman said late Tuesday. Pricing for the BlackBerry Z10, ...
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Apple today said that its annual developers conference will take place June 10-14, when it will provide developers with preview builds of the next versions of both iOS and OS X. The dates were expected: Last month, San Francisco's Moscone ...
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The latest release of the Ubuntu operating system, version 13.04, which will be released today, uses less system and memory resources, offers better boot times and more efficient power management, according to Canonical, the company behind ...
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The £650m over four years that the government allocated to cyber security in 2010 was recently branded "embarrassing" by Bob Ayres, a former intelligence officer at the US Department of Defense, in an interview with Computing, and ...
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How important are toys to Argos? What are your ambitions in this sector? Argos is the UK's number one toy retailer (by value) and toys is an incredibly important category to our business. Many people will remember flicking through the ...
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In many respects, automated materials handling systems are like mutual funds: They’re front-end loaded. We put a lot of emphasis on conveyors, sorters, pick-to-light, voice technology and automated storage solutions. Packing stations, ...
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