Global provider of cloud-based mobile sales technology StayinFront, has incorporated the Windows 8 platform in its customer relationship management (CRM) Touch mobile application, which will be available from the fourth quarter of 2013. ...
Tags: Windows 8, Mobile CRM Platform
Sprint says it will have live LTE sites using former Clearwire spectrum across the U.S. next year and expects all its new mobile devices in 2014 to be equipped for those frequencies -- though not necessarily iPhones. The company gave an ...
Tags: Wide Rollout and Device
Apple will launch a high-resolution, Retina-equipped iPad Mini this fall or in early 2014. Or it won't. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) today claimed that Apple suppliers will ...
The specialty chemicals group ALTANA has signed a definite agreement to acquire the global rheology business of Rockwood Holdings Inc. The unit, currently part of Rockwood's "Performance Additives" segment, is one of the world's leading ...
Tags: Construction
Industrial laser specialist says that there is still growth in the market for high-power CO2 lasers. Sales at Rofin-Sinar in the quarter ended June 30 have exceeded expectations, thanks mainly to machine tool and electronics applications ...
Tags: CO2 lasers, high-power lasers
Greencore's third quarter (Q3) results tell a tale of two regions, with strong progress in the US offsetting declines in its UK home market. Greencore's product mix includes a range of prepared meals Italian ready meals, poor weather ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Vistaprint N.V., a leading online provider of professional marketing products and services to micro businesses and the home, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2013. Fourth quarter 2013 ...
Tags: Vistaprint, Textile
In the corrugated giant's first half of the year statement published today (31 July), chief executive Gary McGann said the growth was the result of improved pricing, continued cost take-out and enhanced efficiency programmes. Revenue for ...
Kinetic Concepts, a US-based medical technology company, has inked an agreement to acquire Systagenix, a UK-based firm that provides advanced wound care (AWC) products, for $485m. The merger is expected to boost KCI's position as wound ...
Tags: Kinetic Concepts, Systagenix
HTC plans to introduce a series of mid-tier and entry-level smartphones later this year as a way to regain market share, after posting disappointing financial results in the second quarter. The new phones will arrive at the end of the ...
Tags: HTC, Smartphones
Miami-based startup Muzik, has created a set of headphones that with the push of a button allows you to share what you're listening to on Twitter and Facebook. The new Muzik headphones, which sell for $299, have four buttons on the right ...
Tags: Headphones, Consumer Electronics
Marking the end of more than two years of sharp declines, pricing for solar photovoltaic (PV) modules achieved stability in the first quarter of 2013, paving the way for a rise in industry gross margins and return to profitability for some ...
Tags: Solar Module, solar photovoltaic
Analysts argued today over the significance of Apple's falling market share, reflecting the uncertainties the Cupertino, Calif. company faces in a transition to lower profits. "The current iPhone portfolio is under-performing and Apple is ...
Tags: iPhone Share, Low-Price Model
Cal-Maine Foods, a US-based egg producer, has reported a net loss of $3.8m for the fourth quarter of 2013, compared with a profit of $37.2m for the same period in 2012, due to lawsuit settlement charge that offset the company's improved ...
Tags: Cal-Maine Foods, Food
At the end of the first quarter of 2013, the government debt to GDP ratio in the euro area (EA17) stood at 92.2%, compared with 90.6% at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012. In the EU27 the ratio increased from 85.2% to 85.9%. Compared ...
Tags: Government Debt, GDP ratio