Tung Ho Steel, one of the major H beam and rebar manufacturers in Taiwan, has announced its second-quarter combined sales revenue totaled NT$8.839 billion, down by 1.8% from a quarter ago. The falling demand from Taiwan's popular ...
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Qlik Technologies Inc a leader in Business Discovery — user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Lars Björk, Chief Executive Officer of QlikTech, stated, ...
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Tesco UK was performing broadly in-line with its rivals Asda and Morrison, after recovering from "the body blow to its trade caused by the horse meat contamination", said Shore Capital analysts Darren Shirley and Clive Black. "With the ...
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Without Taiwan's Investment Commission approval, Taiwanese LED manufacturer FOREPI's and Chinese manufacturer San'an Optoelectronics' (San'an) ownership stake acquisition deal was thwarted. FOREPI's board of directors approved San'an as a ...
Finance segments experienced some growth, driven by emerging markets, but the capital markets and commercial banking remained cautious, according to the latest study by the Financial Services Competence Center at Roland Berger Strategy ...
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Large-size panel shipments declined 2.5% in June, according to research firm TrendForce. The firm said that because of the start of the slow season in June, extending price drops for TV panels, TV vendors stayed cautious on procurement, ...
Tags: Large-Size Panel, LCD TV panel
The Australian financial services sector could be a major beneficiary if the Labor government is able to finalise the long-awaited free trade agreement with China. Analysts in Beijing believe China would be willing to allow Australian ...
Office for National Statistics (ONS) released official figures that confirmed positive sales growth seen in the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor released earlier this month. The total value of sales growth reported by the ONS (not seasonally ...
Tags: Positive Retail Growth, Apparel
Changing consumer demand in terms of fashion and quality has sustained the development of the mature and saturated workwear and uniforms market in Western Europe. As the need for traditional blue workwear decreases, existing suppliers are ...
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Although a historic downturn in PC shipments has made headlines since April, "Peak PC" -- the moment when personal computers crested -- was two years ago, according to data from researcher IDC. In the third quarter of 2011, global PC ...
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Retail sales data for the month of June from the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF) showed relatively positive traction on the consumer spending front despite tailing off at the end of the second ...
Tags: economy
As of July 8, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 75.81 million mt, indicating an increase of 630,000 mt or 0.84 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the ...
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Analysts remain skeptical that Microsoft's relaunch of Windows 8 and the free upgrade to Windows 8.1 will translate into increased PC and tablet sales in the second half of the year. "[Windows 8.1] is unlikely to have a major impact [on] ...
China's venture capital (VC) market continued to improve after last year's retreat, with the number of deals signed growing in the second quarter. Eighty-nine VC deals were disclosed during the April-June period, which was 20.3 percent ...
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A four-year-old vulnerability could infect 99 per cent of Android devices with Trojan malware without users even realising, a team of security researchers has claimed. A blog post by Bluebox CTO Jeff Forristal said the vulnerability has ...
Tags: Android, virus, data safety