China formally announced a thorough decontrol over lending rates of financial institutions on July 20. Approved by the State Council, the Chinese cabinet, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, said on July 20 that the ...
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Stephen Balaban, the 24-year-old founder of Lambda Labs, has created "an alternative operating system that runs on Glass but is not controlled by Google," he told NPR's Steve Henn. Though Google has banned facial recognition software ...
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Chinese potters have a long tradition of borrowing design and decorative features from earlier wares. Whilst ceramics with features thus borrowed might sometimes pose problems of provenance, they would not generally be regarded as either ...
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The countries that have signed CAFTA-DR free trade agreement may lose about 100,000 jobs in the textile industry if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is signed in its current form, which allows Vietnam to import raw materials ...
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The ‘Shaping the future of the textile sector in Galicia’ conference held at Valladares in Vigo, Spain, organized by the Center of Excellence Vigo saw participation of textile industry professionals and experts who met to ...
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Yahoo has won a court ruling that allows the release of records that show how the web firm fought against demands to hand over data under Prism, when the web monitoring system was first established in 2008. A court ruled that the United ...
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An electric bicycle, also known as an e-bike, is a bicycle with an integrated electric motor which can be used for propulsion. There are a great variety of different types of e-bikes available worldwide, from e-bikes that only have a small ...
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Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or "the Company") has entered into turnkey contracts to build four new ultra-deepwater drillships. Two drillships will be built at the DSME yard and the other two at the Samsung yard, in South Korea. The project ...
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Japanese Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma (MTPC) has agreed to acquire Medicago, a biopharma company that develops vaccines, in a deal valued at nearly $357m. Based on the terms of the definitive agreement, the acquirer will purchase all of the ...
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An incoming regulatory tsunami could leave the American trucking industry in need of a million drivers by 2016, if all the new regulations currently being considered are implemented. That startling assessment was made by Noel Perry, ...
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Jerry Wright, president and owner of AAA Glass in Fort Worth, Texas, says that the Texas glass industry has already come to terms with the idea of immigration reform and stands ready for whatever form of it eventually becomes the law of the ...
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The Cabinet Office has admitted that, despite its increased focus on G-Cloud and SMBs for outsourced projects, it still has "some pretty shoddy tech" - also in spite of acquiring "great people" in comparison to how it worked in the past. ...
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Computerworld - Apple's anticipated iWatch and Google Glass have provoked plenty of headlines, but a recent poll shows that a majority of well-heeled Americans with college degrees wouldn't consider buying or wearing such devices. The ...
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China has built glittering metropolises in the span of roughly three decades of reform and opening. But in an equal span of time, shiny urban centers risk losing their shining façades or even descending into slums thanks to poor ...
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The leaders of the world's leading gas exporting nations are due to meet in Moscow Monday for the second summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum to discuss the future of the gas market amid uncertainties over the supply and demand ...
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