Domestic gold futures still have room to grow following the recent commodities rally, which sent gold, copper and crude oil to multi-month highs last week. The most traded gold contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) rose 1.45 ...
After a Palestinian researcher was denied a bug bounty by Facebook, Marc Maiffret, CTO of BeyondTrust, kicked off a crowd-sourced fund yesterday to come up with a reward. The researcher, Khalil Shreateh, expressed his gratitude today to ...
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US government agency, the Department of Interior (DOI) has selected IBM in a deal worth up to $1bn (£600m) as it bids to shift its IT into the cloud. The contract is an "indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity" (IDIQ) contract ...
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A 53% jump in consumer demand for gold in China and India during the second quarter was not enough to offset a heavy decline in Exchange Traded Fund purchases which fell 400 mt over the same period, leaving demand down 12% on year at 856 ...
Tags: Gold Demand, Mineral
Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through its Provincial Science and Technology Center (PSTC) recently conducted training on advance bleaching and dyeing of abaca fibre. Members of Tanikala ng Pagkakaisa ...
Tags: Abaca Fire, Textile
During his eight years as chief executive of the PPMA,? member numbers have risen to more than 400 through mergers with a number of related trade associations. The last year has been marked by his leading the PPMA out of the joint venture ...
Finland-based nanotech firm Picodeon Ltd, which specializes in thin-film coatings and surface treatments, is to accelerate the development and manufacture of its thin films and thin-film deposition tools following completion of a €5m ...
Tags: PLD Enso TEKES, Electrical, Electronics
Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has revealed that it will sell the Mozilla Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open on auction site eBay, retailing at a price of £59.99 [$79.99]. The device, first revealed at Mobile World Congress earlier this ...
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Pulverized glass may be coming to a beach near you, but you won't be able to tell the difference because it will look and feel like sand beneath your feet. Broward County commissioners will decide Tuesday whether to support a program that ...
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US-based food company Pinnacle Foods has entered into an agreement to acquire Wish-Bone and Western dressings brands from Unilever for $580m in cash. The acquisition includes a broad range of liquid and dry-mix salad dressing flavors ...
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The Ministry of Textiles in India, through the Office of the Textile Commissioner, has commenced an online system for collecting authentic data on the cotton ginning industry in the country. The online system for filing of ...
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Anders Holch Povlsen, the well-known fashion entrepreneur and owner of BESTSELLER, joins the Zalando shareholder group, acquiring 10 percent of the shares in Zalando. BESTSELLER is one of Europe's leading fashion companies, with fashion ...
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Osun State University has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with two Canadian universities to carry out research on the ‘Sustainable Production and Utilisation of Under-utilised Nigerian Vegetables’, a move which ...
A credit crisis in Shenmu, a bustling northwest China county that built its riches on coal, has stoked concerns regarding how quickly the country can complete its economic transition. Hundreds of underground banks that mushroomed in ...
Tags: Economic Transition
Canonical has claimed its first corporate backer for its Ubuntu Edge smartphone after Bloomberg, the financial news giant, signed up to the $80,000 "Enterprise 100" package. Canonical has resorted to the Indiego "crowdfunding" website in ...
Tags: Bloomberg, Smartphone