The Commission is today able to report about some success in its strategy to fight global trade barriers. The efforts of the European Commission to fight protectionism over the last year bear fruit and could create better trade and ...
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The sharemarket rose this morning, with consumer staples and financials leading a broad-based recovery following lower-than-expected US jobless claims data. At 11.30am AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 1 per cent at 5081.9 points. The ...
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By Adeline Bash, Public Relations Associate for Product Architects, Inc.? — the manufacturer of the Polar Bottle insulated water bottles.? Last week Polar Bottle asked our Facebook fans to tell us the name and location of their ...
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AXA Group's Italian subsidiary, Quixa has deployed Accenture's Duck Creek Rating software in an effort to improve its product definition and deployment capabilities and business management capabilities. Using the newly implemented ...
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted patent no. 8,394,608 to BioFire Diagnostics' patent application covering the FilmArray system. The patent covers methods for sample preparation and two-step multiplex polymerase chain ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is closing its Sirtris Pharmaceuticals office in Cambridge and fully integrating its research and development (R&D) operations with Philadelphia office. The firm is mulling to relocate some of the 60 staffers ...
South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty ...
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Cervélo co-founder Phil White is taking a larger role within the Pon Bicycle Group, the bike division of Pon Holdings, which bought Cervélo a little over a year ago. White, who has been CEO of Cervélo, has been named ...
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Etisalat Group’s Atlantique Telecom on Wednesday announced that it has signed a five-year, multi-country agreement with Ericsson, which will now manage the telco’s African mobile networks. Atlantique said that the number of ...
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In April, AATCC will honor Nicole Nichols-Wilson, president and founder of Pure Filter Solutions (PFS), as the 2012 recipient of the Association’s Young Entrepreneur Award. Nichols is being recognized for designing, manufacturing, and ...
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For the Internet of Things to become a reality, networks need to get a whole lot smarter and more flexible, according to Cisco. The company aims to build an "Internet of Everything" that will link sensors, mobile devices and network ...
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Cadence Design Systems has agreed to acquire configurable processor IP company Tensilica for around $380m in cash. The acquisition will add processor IP used in mobile, infrastructure, in-car entertainment and consumer applications, ...
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The Federal Court, last month, ruled in favour of the beverage company after it argued the Northern Territory government’s 10c deposit recycling scheme – introduced in January 2012 and similar to a scheme that has been running ...
Dramatically falling costs and improvements in efficiency are driving increased sales of light emitting diode (LED) lamps for street lighting. Costs have fallen as much as 50% over the past two years and are expected to continue falling. By ...
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More and more small toy businesses are using sites like Kickstarter to acquire funding and bring their products to market. The crowdfunding website has seen a number of fresh toys manufactured and shipped, including Atoms (pictured), a ...
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