Computerworld - Employers in Illinois and California cannot ask for usernames and passwords to the personal social media accounts of employees and job seekers under laws that took effect on Jan. 1. Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn in August ...
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A new report from Deloitte,entitled"Mergers and Acquisitions in the Oil and Gas Industry—Current upstream M&A issues and transaction considerations",looks at the factors affecting investment in Iraq: "Iraqi production,which has ...
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George Adams is President of SA Recycling,located in Anaheim,California,and he has been in the family-owned scrap metal business(Adams Steel)since 1977.Originally started by George's father 35 years ago as a single scrap metal facility,SA ...
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Recently,Baosteel Special Material successfully smelts the first furnace of engine material steel for Rolls-Royce,with performance indicators all meeting user requirements.After passing Rolls-Royce management system requests and hazard ...
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Reuters reported that China will review on grid power tariffs annually and adjust them if thermal coal prices fluctuate by more than 5% a year. Government marking a small step towards broader market-oriented energy pricing reforms. ...
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The Taranto prosecutor's office filed a challenge against the Italian government for its so called "ILVA decree" in the Constitutional Court on Monday, according to court sources. The prosecutor's office of the southern Italian port city ...
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Copper rose for a third day in London as Chinese services industries expanded at the fastest pace in four months, bolstering prospects for an economic rebound in the world’s biggest consumer of the metal. China’s statistics ...
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Greenland’s treasure trove of rare earth metals, the largest deposit outside of China, cannot be mined because the elements are connected to restricted radioactive materials. Several reports, such as The Epoch Times’ latest ...
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L.E.D.: LED means light emitting diode. LEDs are a solid state device and do not require heating of a filament to create light. Rather, electricity is passed through a chemical compound that is excited and that generates light. LEDs are ...
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PTI quoted Uttam Galva Steels as saying that the steel demand is likely to grow by around 10% in the next financial year. Mr Ankit Miglani deputy MD of Uttam Galva said that "We are expecting a 10% growth in the steel demand in the ...
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Australia-based iron ore producer Gindalbie Metals Limited (Gindalbie) has announced that it has shipped the first magnetite concentrate cargo from its Karara iron ore project in Western Australia via Karara Export Terminal in Geraldton. It ...
The sharemarket moved the dial a click further to boom conditions by closing at a 19-month high thanks to growing interest in blue chips and miners, and a strong tailwind from the US market's fiscal resolution-driven 2.35 per cent, ...
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The Australian dollar is higher after US politicians reached a deal to roll back a series of measures that threatened to push America back into recession -- a situation known as the fiscal cliff. At 07:00 AEDT, the local unit was trading ...
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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
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Japanese c-store retailer FamilyMart has announced that Itochu executive Isamu Nakayama will replace Junji Ueda as its president and CEO. FamilyMart's board of directors approved the move at a meeting on 27 December, although it ...
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