In a new study just published in the journal Biological Invasions, ecologists at Sewanee: The University of the South and James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, have documented the loss of yet another major tree species from North ...
Tags: redbay, laurel wilt, North American forests
Shandong Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shandong Iron and Steel Co. (Shandong Steel) announced on December 30 that it has sold an 80 percent stake in Jinan Steel International Trade Co. and a 100 percent stake in Shandong Laiwu Steel ...
Tags: Shangdong Steel, Subsidiaries
A team of researchers from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has developed a new Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) technology that will boost ...
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A US firm is preparing a strategy to remove Pakistan from the list of permitted sourcing countries (PSC), Munir Qureshi, Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Secretary said while speaking to members of the Pakistan Textile ...
Tags: Textile Exporters, US Firm
Struggling US computer giant Hewlett-Packard plans to slash 5,000 more jobs than previously announced because of a difficult business environment, a regulatory filing shows. HP will eliminate 34,000 positions by the end of its fiscal year ...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard, unemployment
Pakistan-based Azgard Nine Ltd (ANL), one of the largest denim products company by sales in Pakistan, continues to be in the grip of liquidity crisis as there is strong resistance to fresh working capital loans from the lenders, who have ...
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Forepi’s LED business hit rock bottom in 2013, said Jian Fengren, Chairman of Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Forepi. However, the company will benefit from the gradual development of flip chip, HV LED, and package free products in ...
Tags: Chip manufactures, Lighting
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy expects flip chip LED components for use in lighting and LCD TV backlighting to account for 15-20% of its 2014 consolidated revenues, according to company chairman Frank Chien. Formosa ...
Tags: Flip Chip LED, Lighting
Crocs, Inc. announced that Blackstone Group LP is making a $200 million investment that will give the private equity firm a 13 percent stake in the shoe company. Crocs also said late on Sunday that John McCarvel, its CEO, plans to retire in ...
Tags: Crocs, Blackstone Group LP, investment, John McCarvel, retirement
Profits of oil giant China Sinopec increased more than 10 billion yuan (1.6 billion U.S. dollars) in the first eleven months. Huang Shuhe, vice chairman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), said the ...
U.S. researchers say they dissected what compassionate speech sounds like to create a behavioral taxonomy -- classification -- to guide medical training. Dr. Ronald Epstein, a professor and director of the University of Rochester's Center ...
Among different surgical procedures, gastric bypass was more effective for weight loss but was associated with more complications, U.S. researchers say. Su-Hsin Chang of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and ...
Gold for February delivery GCG4 +0.12% ?fell $1.50, or 0.1%, to settle at $1,202.30 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. For the year, gold fell 28%, its worst year in about three decades. Gold futures have plummeted on ...
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US for-hire truck tonnage jumped 2.7% in November, achieving a new record high. The American Trucking Associations’ for-hire truck tonnage index was up 8.1% year-over-year in November. Year-to-date, tonnage is up 5.8%, the ATA ...
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Quintain Steel, one of the major carbon steel wire rod re-rolling mills in Taiwan, has calculated its net operating loss from this January to November totaled NT$129 million, the number of loss has narrowed down a lot from 2012. The ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy