HandyTube broadens global reach at new Korean exhibition Friday,Jan 11,2013 Company's presence at inaugural Offshore Korea show underscores HandyTube's commitment to the international market HandyTube Corporation continues to solidify ...
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Tech stocks are ending the first half of the year on an upbeat note with news that enterprise spending on software lately has been relatively strong. On Friday shares of computer companies led a U.S. market rally in the wake of reports ...
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Unlike rival Microsoft, Apple has consistently been able to get a significant portion of its Mac customers to quickly upgrade to the newest version of OS X, data from a Web measurement company showed. The last three versions of Apple's ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook is setting up an engineering team in London that is expected to focus on its platform and mobile development, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. The team will be kept fairly small at first and will consist ...
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The rare earths business isn't unlike a Formula One race, according to Carolyn Dennis, vice-president and senior analyst with Dundee Capital Markets. Companies are speeding to reach production and find strategic partners to grease the ...
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Microsoft will "draw a line in the sand" come April 2014 when Windows XP exits support, security researchers said today, even if millions of customers are still running the aged OS and a zero-day bug threatens the Windows ecosystem. Or ...
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Russian president Mr Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for the billionaire owners of the Alfa-Access-Renova consortium to invest the USD 28 billion cash they will get from selling their 50% stake in TNK-BP locally. Mr Putin told reporters ...
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The launch of Google Maps in Apple’s App Store last week has boosted iOS 6 adoption by 29 per cent, new data reveals. When iOS 6 launched in September, many iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users decided not to update to Apple’s ...
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Kaspersky Lab has outlined key security trends of 2012 and presented their views on the core threats of 2013. The most notable predictions for the next year include the continued rise of targeted attacks, cyber-espionage and nation-state ...
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As more than 12,000 unionized workers and supporters protested at the Capitol in Lansing, the Republican-led state House of Representatives gave final approval to a pair of "right-to-work" bills covering public- and private-sector unions. ...
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US retailer Stater Bros. has reported a drop in third-quarter profits as an increase in costs offset higher sales. Stater Bros., which runs over 160 stores in California, booked net income of US$7.2m for the 13 weeks to 24 June. A year ...
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Swiss food ingredients group Givaudan has booked an increase in first-half profits. In the six months to the end of June, net profit increased 67.5% to CHF201m (US$207.9m). Operating profit amounted to CHF295m, a 27.7% increase on the ...
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Canadian c-store chain Couche-Tard has booked an increase in first-half profits boosted by acquisitions. In the 24 weeks ended 14 October, earnings amounted to C$278.1m (US$279.7m), a 9.9% increase on the prior year period. The group said ...
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The idea of buying farm produce locally has spawned a number of far out ideas over the years.But one I read recently–moving agriculture into abandoned big city buildings,and allow much of our nation's farmland to return to its natural ...
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Intuitive Surgical has agreed to pay $20m to acquire an extended license to certain patents in Hansen Medical's patent portfolio. Under the terms of the agreement, Intuitive's existing co-exclusive rights to Hansen's patent portfolio to ...
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