Reuters reported that Brazil's Vale, the world's top iron ore producer, has blamed a Guinean government U turn on rail and port links and shifting, unclear regulation for its decision to shelve the giant Simandou iron ore project. Vale ...
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Freescale Semiconductor is demonstrated a dual nework ZigBee controller based on its Kinetis ARM Cortex-M4 based microcontroller. Multiple ZigBee networks may exist simultaneously in a home or building.A dual-network device can connect ...
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Suzuki has announced that its American automotive arm will go through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, making it the latest automaker to withdraw from this market. Impact on current car owners is promised to be minimal, but it does raise ...
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The i2i market is a major opportunity for growth according to Samsung's Chief Strategic Officer,Young Sohn,speaking this morning at IEF 2012 organised by Future Horizons in Bratislava. "The sub-$100 computer is one of the biggest ...
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Russian Railways backed joint company,BHEL and Hindustan Aeronautical Ltd backed Indo Russian Aviation Ltd have expressed interest in developing a LNG turbine based locomotive for heavy and long haul operations. Research Design and ...
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German embedded computer maker Kontron has put a high-end phone/tablet processor onto an industrial computer module. Intended for low-power image-centric applications,it is home to a NVIDIA Tegra 3 system chip,which has a quad-core 1.2GHz ...
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Tablets based on the Windows 8 on ARM OS(Windows 8 RT)are at a more advanced stage of development than tablets based on Windows 8 running on Intel chips,reports Bloomberg. "Microsoft has worked closely with Intel and our hardware ...
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Singapore-based consumer and B2B chocolate and cocoa group Petra Foods has booked an increase in half-year profits despite lower sales. A strong performance from Petra Foods' consumer brands offset a fall in sales and earnings from cocoa ...
Success in cutting costs quicker than expected, as well as an increase in underlying half-year sales and profits, helped drive Premier Foods plc's shares this morning (7 August). The UK food group said it now expects to cut costs by ...
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UK retailer The Co-operative Group has added to its food management team with the appointment of executives from Tesco and Asda. Matt Hood will join the Co-op next month as head of commercial trading for dairy, chilled prepared foods and ...
This week's recall of 7.43 million Toyotas for a faulty power window switch that could catch fire has been billed as one of the largest in history. But how big is it really? It didn't even make the top 10, ranking only 16th on a list ...
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Epigenomics has reported positive results from a clinical study, which showed that its blood-based colorectal cancer (CRC) detection test is non-inferior in sensitivity when compared to fecal immunochemical testing (FIT). Using patients ...
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UK wholesaler Booker has said it is on course to meet its full-year expectations after making a "good start" to its new financial year. The wholesale retailer said total sales rose 1.7% in the 12 weeks to 22 June, with tobacco weighing on ...
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UK food wholesaler Booker is set to buy the local cash-and-carry assets of German retail giant Metro Group. Booker said today (30 May) it had agreed a cash-and-shares deal that values Metro's Makro UK arm at GBP139.7m. As part of the ...
American International Group,Inc.(AIG)has entered into an agreement with an investor group led by the chairman of New China Trust Co,Weng Xianding,to sell up to 90%stake in International Lease Finance Corporation(ILFC). The investor ...