Reuters reported that the new trading arm of state run Saudi Aramco has finalized a January to June 2013 term contract to sell jet fuel with at least one buyer. Traders said that Saudi Aramco Products Trading Company has agreed to sell ...
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Dutch supermarket operator and wholesaler Sligro has survived a fourth-quarter slowdown to report a 2% lift in full-year sales. For the 12 months to the end of December, Sligro said today (2 January) that net sales increased by 1.9% on ...
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There were 123 heads of state and governments using Twitter to communicate with citizens and the rest of the world as of December 2012, a think tank said Tuesday. The number is up 78 percent on 2011, according to a study released on ...
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HP has confirmed that it will wield the axe on those of its businesses that don't meet targets, official documents have revealed. As first reported by Bloomberg, HP told the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a 27 December filing ...
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Experts said that the GCC tubes and pipes industry will invest USD 18 billion in the next 5 years in new pipelines and associated infrastructure,as the Gulf is set to add more than 21,000 kilometer to its current pipe network. According ...
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Microsoft won't have its signature mega-booth at International CES 2013 starting next week in Las Vegas,but that's not expected to lessen the trade show's impact,or largesse. Show organizers said there will be 3,200 exhibitors and they ...
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Velocity Micro?, the premier builder of award winning enthusiast desktops, laptops, peripherals, and Cruz? tablets announces several new products to be debuted at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Products include the dual ...
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IDG News Service-Asustek Computer on Tuesday introduced the VivoTab Smart,a tablet computer with a 10.1-inch screen that will be available with Windows 8 starting at$499. The tablet resembles Asustek's existing Transformer Pads,which have ...
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Computerworld-Intel's former head of Ultra Mobility,hired Monday to become Qualcomm's chief marketing officer,shows that the San Diego-based chip maker is finally serious about marketing,one analyst said. The hiring of Anand ...
Dune Medical Devices' MarginProbe system, designed for the detection of breast cancer, has obtained premarket approval (PMA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The system is an intra-operative tissue assessment tool which ...
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The deal for the stake in the 170m-turnover group was announced this morning by Sun European Partners, the European arm of US-based Sun Capital which has recently bought businesses including Britton Group, Albéa, Kobusch-Sengewald ...
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The deal, which was first announced in November, will see four Contego facilities – in Leeds and Gillingham in the UK, Hoogerheide in the Netherlands and Portlaiose in Ireland – transfer to the US-based cartons giant. It then ...
Tags: Graphic Packaging, Fair Trading, cartons, food packaging
Computerworld-Late next year,consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone:one for personal use,one for work. The technology could ...
Tags: Dual-identity smartphones, app, the bring-your-own-device(BYOD)
Samsung is building a tablet based on Windows RT for release sometime in October, according to unnamed sources who spoke to the Bloomberg news service. Samsung joins Acer and Asus, among other device makers, to build the touchscreen ...
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IDG News Service - Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Dell has already said it was testing servers based on ...
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