Police in the southern Italian city of Taranto have confiscated €8.1 billion worth of property and goods belonging to the Riva family, owners of the Riva Fire holding company which controls the troubled Ilva steel plant, as widespread ...
Tags: Italy, production, steelmaking, European Union, Brescia
The Board of Directors of Attock Cement Pakistan Limited (ACPL) has informed the Karachi Stock Exchange that the company intends to invest around $25 million in a new cement grinding unit in Basra, Iraq. The announcement was made through a ...
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Government panel the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has given its approval for Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank to acquire a majority stake in Sprint Nextel in a $20 billion deal. CFIUS "found that there are ...
Renault has acknowledged the decision of electric vehicle network provider Better Place to file for liquidation, but says the move will not negatively impact its own electric vehicle strategy. In a brief release, Renault said that while ...
Tags: Renault, Electric Vehicle
The National Retail Federation and a broad cross-section of retailers asked a federal judge to reject a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees that drive up prices for consumers by $30 billion a year, ...
Jawbone today announced the appointment of Mindy Mount as president of the company. Mount comes to Jawbone from Microsoft where she held several roles including corporate vice president and chief financial officer of the Online Services ...
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Electric vehicle network provider Better Place has filed for liquidation, effectively switching off its global operations. The Israel-based EV infrastructure start-up filed a motion with the Lod District Court near Tel Aviv on May 26 ...
Tags: Electric vehicle, liquidation
Title insurance, mortgage services and diversified services provider Fidelity National Financial has named John D Rood to its board of directors. Rood will replace general William Lyon, who retired from the FNF Board of Directors after 15 ...
Former OSRAM General Manager and CTO Has Played Key Role In Industry's Evolution, Will Aid Aledia's Move Towards Industrialization Aledia, a pioneering developer of WireLED®, a new microwire-based 3D LED technology that dramatically ...
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Inez Tenenbaum told furniture manufacturers this week that it is committed to developing a national upholstered furniture flammability standard that does not require the use of harmful ...
Tags: AHFA Board, Daily Use
Sprint Nextel has increased its offer to buy out Clearwire, bidding US$3.40 per share, to counter a competing offer by Dish Network. The new bid marks a significant boost from its earlier offer of $2.97 per share and beats Dish's $3.30 ...
Tags: Sprint Nextel, Computer Products, Clearwire
Delta Manufacturing, Inc., a Newport, Arkansas.-based maker of steel trailers, has selected PPG Industries' commercial coatings group as its paint supplier. Delta has manufactured horse, livestock, equipment and cargo trailers since ...
GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance team up to bring intelligent bar code scanning to mobile devices GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) are collaborating to enable bar code scanning features built directly into mobile devices. This will make it ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, Packaging, Printing
China Africa Cotton Mozambique Ltd. (CACM) has begun the process of setting up a cotton ginning unit at Subue, in Sofala province of the Southeast African nation of Mozambique. The new cotton ginnery, being set up at a cost of US$ 6 ...
Tags: Textile
Aledia S.A. of Grenoble, France, which is developing light-emitting diodes based on ‘WireLED’ three-dimensional (3D) microwire GaN-on-silicon technology that is claimed to cut manufacturing costs compared to conventional planar ...
Tags: Solid-State Lighting, Lighting