Merger and acquisition activity has been pretty sparse in toy circles in recent times. Back in the 1980s Hasbro snaffled the Playskool and MB companies followed by Kenner Parker Tonka in the 1990s, the same decade in which Mattel flexed ...
Tags: Toys, Toy Industry
Industrial dust collectors are designed to handle high-volume dust loads in manufacturing plants or processing facilities. The presence of dust and other particles in air can prove detrimental in more ways than one, reiterating the ...
Tags: Dust Collector Systems, Industrial Manufacturing Processes
Dutch insurance firm ING Group has sold its 26% stake in ING Vysya Life Insurance Company to its joint venture partner Exide Industries for an undisclosed amount. The deal, which was originally inked in January this year, is a part of a ...
Tags: Life Insurance, Insurance, insurance firm
China Quality Certification Center released new version of Solar Product Certification Rules for Photovoltaic Stand-alone System (CQC33-464141-2013), to instead of CQC33-464141-2009. The details are as follows. 1. Apply for CQC Mark ...
After being re-elected president of the National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO), Alonso Ancira Elizondo, CEO of Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA), said that the steel industry and the Mexican government can no longer ignore ...
Tags: steel imports, steel, Steel Industry
Systema Software has introduced an advanced business intelligence module for the SIMS Claims next-generation browser-based property and casualty (P&C) claims administration system. Dubbed SIMS Insight, the newly launched module delivers ...
Tags: insurance industry, insurance, Business Intelligence Module
Innovation performance in the EU has improved year on year in spite of the continuing economic crisis, but the innovation divide between Member States is widening. This is the result of the European Commission Innovation Union Scoreboard ...
Tags: EU, Gap, More Innovative
The employment and social situation in the EU remained critical in the fourth quarter of 2012 with employment receding overall and unemployment rising further, while households' financial situation remained serious according to the European ...
Tags: EU-27, Employment, Social Situation
The EU and Japan officially launched the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The aim is for a comprehensive agreement in goods, services and investment eliminating tariffs, non-tariff barriers and covering other trade-related ...
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The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed a non-binding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within their borders. The proposal was an amendment to a 2014 budget bill that the Senate ...
Tags: Internet, e-commerce, Internet Sales
Rail safety organisation TrackSAFE has announced the top ten worst level crossings in each state, from the perspective of train drivers. TrackSAFE has written to state and federal transport ministers across the country, urging increased ...
Tags: Rail safety, transportation, TrackSAFE
Wheelmakers are preparing to take on cycling competition's governing body, the UCI, over testing the Swiss body requires for wheels used in sanctioned competition. At a meeting here last week, manufacturers left little doubt of their ...
Tags: Wheel, Transportation, bike
Following similar disclosures from companies such as Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has received from law enforcement agencies for data about its users, and the criteria it employs ...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday questioned whether it or a federal district court should properly hear the American Petroleum Institute's challenge of a Securities and Exchange ...
Tags: SEC Rule, API Challenge, Chemicals
Mobile-based browsing has tripled in the last two years, and is making significant inroads on traditional Internet access from personal computers, according to statistics from a Web metrics company. Mobile's gains are in part a side ...
Tags: Mobile, Browser Usage, app