Bitcoin is not going away, the digital currency's developers say, and they're craving more technically savvy people to support its use. "Our bottleneck is not new code, it's code review and testing," said Gavin Andresen , chief scientist ...
Indian miner Vedanta Resources has announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2012-13 ended on March 31. Vedanta's profit after tax increased by 35.6 percent to $1.66 billion compared to the previous financial year, while the ...
Tags: Iron Ore Mining, Metallurgy, Mineral&Energy, Karnataka
The stalled initial public offering market has shown signs of life after Virtus Health was priced at the top of the range, raising $339 million in the biggest private equity float since KFC franchisor Collins Foods in 2011. After strong ...
Tags: IPO Market, Virtu, Health&Medicine
Sao Paulo, Brazil-based iron ore mining company and flat rolled steel producer Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. In the first quarter, CSN registered a net income of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
SHARES in the nation's mining services contractors were hit again yesterday on the back of UGL's profit downgrade and stock price plunge, which prompted analysts to cut earnings and price targets for the engineering company. UGL slipped ...
THE sharemarket finished lower as weaker commodity prices weighed on the nation's biggest mining stocks. At 4.15pm AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 26 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 5165.7 points, while the broader All ...
Tags: economy
THE sharemarket recorded its first two-day fall for the past two weeks yesterday as offshore sellers continued to pound the resources sector and share index futures on the back of weakening commodity prices and recent profit warnings in the ...
Infrastructure developers’ lobby group Infrastructure Partnerships Australia says the 2013 Federal Budget has made some important project funding commitments, but with around half of the money beyond the forward estimates, it did too ...
Tags: Infrastructure Industry, Budget, Service
Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based start-up with a data visualisation engine that helps to discover patterns in live data streams. Lucky Sort's chief executive officer, Noah Pepper, announced the news on the ...
Tags: Twitter, Computer Products
Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how to best place advertisements on its site Lucky Sort's technology is designed to "make ...
Tags: Twitter, Data Analyzer, Computer Products
The Verderflex Dura 45 combines a close-coupled pump?s compactness with a long coupled pump?s easy serviceability. Additionally, its innovative, patent pending flange design reduces downtime by speeding up hose changes whilst totally ...
“In a disturbing report, the Federal Reserve announced that U.S. industrial production (manufacturing, mining, and utilities) contracted by 0.6 percent after strong gains in February and March,” said Cliff Waldman, senior ...
The sharemarket rose for a third-consecutive session after the dollar weakened further overnight. Non-resources companies with US dollar income remained in demand, although commodity price falls restrained the resources sector. The ...
Tags: Stocks, Aussie Fall
In keeping with the austerity push that has been a hallmark of the broking sector since the global financial crisis erupted, Wilson HTM's staff last month vacated their digs - and harbour views - at Sydney's Governor Phillip Tower. In ...
Tags: Listed Brokers, Market Rebound
The sharemarket rose for a third consecutive session yesterday after the Australian dollar weakened further in offshore trade. Non-resources companies with US-dollar income remained in demand, although commodity price falls restrained the ...
Tags: Bourse, Greenback Exposure