Acer CEO J.T. Wang is resigning from his post at the Taiwanese PC maker and will be replaced by president Jim Wong as part of a corporate restructuring that will try to revitalize the company's lagging fortunes. Citing the company's ...
Tags: Computer Products, Acer, software
Microsoft announced that the first fiscal quarter report in 2013. In the first quarter, Microsoft's revenue reached $18.53 billion, compared with last year's $16 billion the increase is 16%; net profit is $5.24 billion, compared with $4.47 ...
Marks & Spencer's (M&S's) food business delivered a "commendable" performance for the 26 weeks to September 28, according to City analysts M&S's food business delivered 'a commendable performance', said City analyst Shore Capital Shore ...
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Lextar Electronics, a Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging house, generated net earnings per share (EPS) of NT$1.82 for January-September 2013, according to the company. Lextar recorded consolidated revenues ...
Tags: taiwan, security market, Electrical, Electronics
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker Motech Industries has reported that its third-quarter 2013 consolidated revenues grew 24.26% sequentially to NT$6.346 billion (US$213 million), while gross operating profit hiked 104.61% to ...
Tags: silicon solar cell, Lights, Lighting, taiwan
Epistar, the largest Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker, saw its operation in the third quarter of 2013 swing to a small net loss of NT$83.4 million (US$2.8 million) due to a non-operating loss of NT$281 million, according to ...
Royal DSM, the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, reported a third quarter EBITDA of €342 million compared to €270 million in Q3 2012. This improvement of 27% was realized despite an ongoing challenging macro-economic ...
Company profit expectations have reached their highest level since 2003, with Australian businesses anticipating a jump in takings in the New Year on the back of stronger sales and firming selling prices. Continuing initial positive ...
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Over the past year, most major public medical device companies have fared well, with a few hiccups here and there. That said, the device industry is confronting challenges such as a dip in elective surgery volume, a rise in recalls related ...
Merely disposing of waste safely or cleaning up polluted water to make it safe is today just the start: Increasingly the emphasis is also on tapping into the energy potential that is hidden in waste materials, waste water and exhaust air. ...
For third-quarter 2013, First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has reported ...
Tags: solar, Electrical, Electronics
Panasonic Corp. announced as an effort to restructure its business it will no longer be manufacturing plasma display panels (PDP) by Dec. 2013. Business operations in three Amagasaki factories will be eventually terminated. Amagasaki P3 ...
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Berkshire Hathaway reported that revenues from its retail group were up 18.1% in the third quarter to $944 million, which the company attributed partly to "improved comparative results of the home furnishings and jewelry business groups." ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Most domestic steelmakers are seeing an improvement in their third-quarter performance. Fifteen of the 20 listed steel companies that issued third quarter reports made profits, as opposed to last year, when up to 90 percent of the steel ...
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Cleveland, Ohio-based Olympic Steel, Inc. announced third quarter net sales of $304.0 million, 11.3 percent lower than the $342.6 million reported in last year's comparable quarter. For the cumulative nine months, net sales were $972.9 ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy