High-tech venture capital in the UK and Ireland ended the year on a high note with £209m invested in 60 companies compared to £129m in 48 deals in Q4 2011, says Ascendant, the tech-focussed investment company. Over 2012 as a ...
Tags: High-tech venture capital, investment company, Consumer Electronics
Nestlé has started recruiting for the 400 jobs created by the pound 110M expansion of its coffee manufacturing facility in Tutbury, Derbyshire. UK sales of Nescafé Dolce Gusto have increased by 40% The pound 110M expansion ...
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Japanese automobile manufacturer Suzuki Motor has obtained the approval from the Myanmar government to establish a new production plant in Myanmar. The company plans to invest about $7m in its plant in Thilawa district, Yangon to start ...
Genworth Financial has reported net income of $166m, or $0.34 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to $142m, or $0.29 during the same period previous year. Net operating income stood at was $167m, or $0.34 per ...
Group Newsagency Supplies (GNS) has announced details of a new share offer, aimed at raising around $7 million to repay debt and expand its market base. GNS CEO Alex Stewart told Stationery News that the funds raised will be used to: ...
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Hyundai is investing $7 million into the construction of a new test centre at the Nurburgring in Germany in another example of the South Korean car maker’s commitment to improving the quality and performance of its future vehicles. ...
The Welsh government has invested 39m into faster broadband services for schools, the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones has announced. The investment comes from a new "Learning In Digital Wales Grant" that aims to help students to ...
The response from the food packaging manufacturer follows yesterday's research,conducted by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers,that showed that half of all the food produced in the world is being thrown away every year. Alan ...
The new European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) is to officially open on Friday, 11 January, at the European Police Office (Europol) in the Hague in the Netherlands. "The Cybercrime Centre will give a strong boost to the EU's capacity to fight ...
Tags: Cybercrime, internet, online crime, online communication
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has agreed to acquire the Kopin Wireless compound semiconductor epiwafer manufacturing division of Kopin Corp of Taunton, MA, USA (including its leased manufacturing ...
Tags: IQE, UK, Kopin Wireless, semiconductor, KTC
Japan Tobacco (JT), Keryx Biopharmaceuticals' Japanese partner, has filed a new drug application (NDA) for the marketing approval of Ferric Citrate (Zerenex) in Japan for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) ...
Tags: Ferric Citrate, Tobacco, CKD, Pharmaceutical
Cambodian police have arrested one of the founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay,which claims 30 million users despite efforts by authorities in Sweden to shut it down and other countries to block access. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ...
Cambodian authorities will deport the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. File-sharing website The Pirate Bay claims 30 million users, despite efforts by authorities in Sweden to shut it down. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ...
Tags: Cambodian, Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Computer Products
GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets) says that it expects ...
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Amazon has reported second quarter income of just $7m, down 96% compared with the same period the year before. The company blamed the fall on an estimated $65m loss from its acquisition and integration of robot-maker Kiva systems in a ...
Tags: Amazon, Kiva Systems, Income, automate warehouses