IDG News Service - In a new twist over the controversy surrounding an anti-Islam movie trailer on YouTube, an actress shown in the trailer has filed a lawsuit demanding that YouTube and its owner Google take down the video. Google has ...
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Saudi cement producer Yamama Cement Company reported a 22 per cent YoY rise in its net profit to SAR487m (US$129.8m) for the first half of 2012, up from SAR400m a year ago. The increase was attributed to a rise in sales as a result of ...
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The Dow Chemical Company and the Saline Water Conversion Corporation(SWCC)have signed a commercial agreement for research collaboration. Dow and SWCC's first action after this agreement will be to launch a pilot project to test the ...
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AES Arabia Ltd has secured a US$14 million contract to design, manufacture, construct, commission and start-up a dedicated seawater reverse osmosis plant in Saudi Arabia. The operation will produce up to 2, 752 GPM of fresh water for the ...
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The number of operators committed to LTE network deployments has increased by 23%to 292 operators in 93 countries in the past year,according to the GSA. To date 96 operators have launched commercial LTE services in 46 countries.This ...
Long established as the principal trade event for the design and interiors industry in the Middle East and North Africa(MENA)region,Index is now in Jeddah,at the heart of Saudi Arabia's economic boom.Index Saudi,held under the Patronage of ...
Tags: Furnishing, Design, Interiors Industry, Furniture
Arab countries imported more than$3.6bn worth of goods from Brazil during the first half of 2012,while Arab exports to Brazil reached nearly$4bn during the same period,reaffirming the importance of Brazil as a key trade partner of the Arab ...
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North Carolina,US:China has become North Carolina's fastest growing importer of furniture,according to US news media,Fox Eight. China is now the fifth largest importer of North-Carolina-made furniture,behind Canada,Japan,Saudi Arabia and ...
SuperGroup Plc provides an Interim Management Statement covering the 13 week period to 29 .Total Group sales for the quarter have increased by 10.0%to£59.7m. Retail division Total UK sales in the 13-week period were£40.2m,an ...
Lindor Machine fabrieken BV, the Dutch maker of mixing equipment, has built a special heated mixer for Buss AG, which manufactures kneaders for plastics compounding. The heated mixer is used to enhance properties of special compounds that ...
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Regulatory information management software and service solutions provider Extedo has launched a new version of Globalvalidator, an eCTD and NeeS validation solution. The validation solution, Globalvalidator, provides life sciences firms ...
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Career Industry Corp.is one of Taiwan's major suppliers and coordinators of paper-tube making equipment with sales and technical services spreading all over the world.The company has been engaged in this business for over 20 years. The ...
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Most Taiwanese printing machinery suppliers experienced downturns during the first half of 2012 due both to global economic uncertainty and a growing rivalry between emerging competitors. According to the latest data issued by the ...
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A timer found in the Shamoon cyber-sabotage malware discovered last week matches the exact time and date when a hacktivist group claims to have disabled thousands of computers from the network of Saudi Aramco,the national oil company of ...
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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new threat targeting infrastructure in the energy sector that is believed to have hit at least one organisation. The malware, dubbed Shamoon, corrupts files on a compromised computer and ...
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