Mercedes-Benz has had its second top-ranked engineer leave its AMG performance arm for a rival German brand within a month. UK publication Autocar reports AMG’s key chassis engineer, Arnd Meyer, has jumped ship from Mercedes-Benz to ...
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Fiat plans to arrange Ferrari to help Alfa Romeo develop new engines, and aims to rebuild Alfa Romeo brand. Marchioe, CEO of Fiat, said recently, “Ferrari will play a more active role to help Alfa Romeo develop new engines, just ...
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Microsoft's XNA development environment-a platform popular with independent videogame programmers for the Xbox 360 console-has been marked for retirement by the company. In an email sent to Microsoft MVPs(most valued professionals)on ...
Intellectual property company I/P Engine has sued Microsoft for infringing two search patents it acquired from Lycos. Microsoft allegedly infringes two patents that cover a relevance filtering technology that is mainly used to place high ...
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The updated 2013 Renault Kangoo has been revealed ahead of its European launch in April and arrival in Australian showrooms towards the end of the year. The revised Renault Kangoo embraces the French manufacturer’s new design ...
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Shell said Thursday it remains on track to grow its oil and gas production by over 20% in the next five to six years, despite weak North American fuel prices continuing to dent the performance of its key upstream growth centre. ...
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German newspaper and magazine publishers said Monday that they won't give Google the same copyright deal as it struck with French publishers to settle a dispute over revenue lost when news article snippets appear in search results. Google ...
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The Optogan group of companies is a vertically integrated producer of High Brightness LEDs based in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The group is also active in Finland and Germany. Founded in 2004 by 3 graduates of Ioffe ...
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Industry journal Automotive News Europe reports Fiat SpA is set to announce a technical cooperation between Ferrari and sister brand Maserati in the coming weeks that will see the them work together with Alfa Romeo on a range of new ...
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Turbocharging is more popular than ever as car makers look for ways to produce power more, more efficiently. Turbos have been around since before the First World War and have traditionally been used as a way of generating more power ...
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As German government officials prepared to meet to discuss a controversial online copyright bill on Wednesday, Yahoo, Facebook and German online startups slammed the proposal that would allow publishers to charge search engines such as ...
French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen has started series production of the Peugeot 208 at the Porto Real facility in Brazil. The group had invested €305m to expand the facility in order to increase the plants production capacity from ...
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Gasoline blended with 15% ethanol caused failure in a "substantial" portion of fuel pumps and other components in a test designed to represent 29 million vehicles approved to use the fuel, according to a study the Coordinating Research ...
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Describe a European luxury car with a 3.0-liter supercharged V6, all-wheel-drive, and eight-speed automatic, and one name probably comes to mind: Audi A6. But now this appealing technological combination platter also describes the Jaguar ...
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German carmaker Opel has unveiled the new diesel-powered seven-seater Zafira Tourer, which is claimed to be the fastest of all variants in the carmaker’s compact van segment. The van is powered by a 2.0 CDTI BiTurbo engine that ...
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