Microsoft has won a battle to permanently disrupt a haven for the Nitol botnet that it discovered within an Internet domain controlled by a Chinese ISP. The company has signed a private settlement that Peng Yong and Changzhou Bei Te Kang ...
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PARIS — December 4, 2012 — Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials-textiles, leather, industrial fabrics, and composite materials-is pleased to announce that ...
, Wassily Kandinsky and Constantin Brancusi led the November 7 Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art at Christie's New York, realizing a grand total of $204,800,000 (£129,024,000/ €159,744,000). Of the 69 works offered by ...
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Marc Alary is a French born , New York based jewelry designer who launched his first fine jewelry collection in November 2009.Marc has enjoyed continued attention from the fashion press and is primed to develop further with his latest ...
Taipei, Oct.11, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan's 1,004 listed manufacturers spent some NT$148.9 billion (US$4.96 billion) in R&D in the first half, up 0.7% year on year (YoY), with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) leading with NT$18.4 ...
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France - A worthy array of Philips Vari-Lite luminaires have bought rhythm, colour and architecture to a Gospel Choir Variety Show, staged at the theatre of Draguignan, a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ...
New Zealand's largest electricity producer,Meridian Energy has resumed talks with Rio Tinto Alcan,the majority owner of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter over Rio's request for changes to 18 year contracts for power supply that kick in on ...
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US agribusiness giant Cargill has launched a Cocoa Promise pledge that it says strengthens its global commitment to cocoa farmers. Cargill said the programme, launched today (21 October), builds on its work over the past ten years and ...
Tags: Cocoa, livelihoods, cocoa beans, cocoa farming
Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has reaffirmed its mid-term guidance, depsite booking a drop in full-year profit. In the 12 months to the end of August, the company reported a net profit of CHF142.6m (US$151.7m), down from CHF178.6m ...
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Swiss chocolate giant Barry Callebaut has broken ground at its first Center of Cocoa Excellence in west Africa. The CHF1m (US$1.3bn) training and research centre, which will be operational from October, will be used to test ...
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Located in the middle of Fujian province, Te-hua is a small county in the southwest of Quanzhou. The lush forest and fine quality porcelain clay make Te-hua porcelain very famous. It is said that Te-hua porcelain began in Song dynasty, but ...
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A 4,000-year-old Chinese folk art rarely practiced today, dough figurine is also known as mianhua or miansu in Chinese. The man who may have created the craft, Zhuge Liang, was military strategist of the state of Shu in the Three ...
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Lectra,the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials-textiles,leather,industrial fabrics,and composite materials-is pleased to announce that Façonnable has successfully implemented ...
Japanese automaker Mazda has launched a special edition of the Mazda6, the Takumi, in Romania, with two powertrain options. The car will be powered by a 2.0 litre petrol engine which will deliver a total output of 155hp, while the second ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill has extended its sustainable cocoa program to South Sulawesi province,Indonesia,as a part of its strategy to develop sustainable cocoa production and increase the yields of farmers in the country. ...
Tags: cocoa, farmer, certification