The mining and minerals industry has made major advances towards sustainability, but the sector faces new challenges as governments reassert control over their natural resources, but lack capacity to ensure mining can contribute to ...
Tags: Africa, Asia, Australia, China, Coal, Consultants News, Copper, Diamond
The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
Tags: Cobalt, Rare Earth, USA, Metallurgy
IDG News Service - Infosys said Monday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lodestone Holding, a management consultancy firm in Zurich with skills in the area of SAP software, as the Indian company attempts to move into ...
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Google has acquired Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing company, aiming to creating new opportunities for its clients to engage with people across all social services, it said Tuesday. Started four years ago, Wildfire in ...
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IDG News Service - Google has dropped a major part of its wide-ranging patent-infringement battle against Apple, withdrawing a complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission. Google had sought to block iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch ...
Tags: Google, Apple, Motorola Unit, Motorola patents, ITC
Big Data is not a new phenomenon and has been around for many years, noted Jim Goodnight, CEO at SAS, who spoke recently at the SAS High Performance Analytics Conference in Hong Kong. He described how companies have always been aware of ...
Less than a year after acquiring it Sony Electronics Inc in December 2011,Soitec of Bernin,France has opened its North American concentrator photovoltaic(CPV)module manufacturing facility in San Diego after completing on schedule an ...
Tags: Soitec, CPV, Sony Electronics, fully automated manufacturing equipment
The Critical Metals Report: John, a recent Brookings Institution report suggested that greater collaboration between U.S. and Chinese companies would alleviate tensions over tightening rare earth markets. Is the proposed merger between the ...
Tags: Rare earth, Critical Metals, rare earth markets, REEs
PTI reported that Japanese industrial solutions giant Hitachi will sign a contract with the Gujarat Government next month for setting up a sea water desalination plant in the State that will treat 0.336 million tonnes of water every day. ...
Tags: Hitachi, sea water desalination plant, industrial solutions
Following the recent additions of producer Jana Heiss and East Coast sales rep Jake Neske,HUSH is geared up to announce the signing of New York-based designer,director and illustrator Jodi Terwilliger.With this latest addition,HUSH is ...
Heraeus Noblelight, business group of the German based precious metal and technology group Heraeus, is acquiring the Fusion UV business group, headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, from British manufacturer Spectris. The acquisition is ...
Tags: UV Business, Heraeus Noblelight, Fusion UV, Construction Decoration
Business Line reported that Reliance Industries, which acquired BP Plc’s Malaysian petrochemical oil and gas processing plant in Kuantan for USD 230 million in September, is bullish about its prospects in the South East Asian nation. ...
Tags: Reliance Industries, BP Plc, Malaysian, oil, gas
Ofcom has published a draft code today to tackle illegal file-sharers by passing their information onto copyright owners. The regulator was required to put together the code as part of the Digital Economy Act voted through in 2010. ...
Tags: Ofcom, copyright, file share, ISPs
A hotel chain in the UK has taken CounterACT network access control for its systems from Forecast for endpoint compliance to PCI requirements Travelodge, a UK budget hotel company, has selected ForeScout CounterACT NAC-as-a-Service ...
Tags: Network Access, hotel chain, network access control, budget hotel company
New solution leverages the Cloud to make DICOM image storage and regulatory compliance easier and more affordable. TARPON SPRINGS, FL, November 14, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Essential Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (EESi), a medical imaging ...
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