China's competition officials are still weighing Dole Food Co's deal to sell its global packaged food and Asian fresh businesses to Japan's Itochu Corp, forcing the two firms to delay completion of the sale. Dole had hoped to sign-off ...
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Audi will invest 13 billion euros ($16.5 billion) over the next four years as it aggressively pursues growth in the face of a challenging global economic climate. The ambitious capital expenditure program will see the prestige German ...
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Google is looking to lure 90 per cent of all Microsoft Office users to its Google Docs offering. In an interview with AllThingsD, Google vice president and head of enterprise, Amit Singh (pictured), said that Google will step up its ...
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The Audi Q5 retained its title of Australia’s most popular luxury SUV but it was another narrow margin of victory. Audi’s mid-sized SUV grew only 1 per cent year on year to 2830 sales but it was sufficient to thwart the ...
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The Mazda3 has retained its title as Australia’s most popular new car in 2012, claiming victory for the second consecutive year after a tight 12-month tussle with the Toyota HiLux. The HiLux threatened to steal the crown earlier ...
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Coal traders returned to their posts on Wednesday, snapping the streak of low volume sessions in the US over-the-counter thermal coal market since the Christmas holiday. Central Appalachian barge and rail (CSX) contracts, as well as ...
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IDG News Service - The number and value of technology mergers and acquisitions is flattening out, mainly as a result of economic uncertainty, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report. Fifty-nine tech sector M&A deals closed in the ...
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Network World - Venture capitalists have pumped oodles of money in recent years into startups that exploit telecom networks and wireless infrastructure, but now it might be time for infrastructure startups themselves to start attracting ...
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IDG News Service - As a nine-person jury begins deliberations in the closely watched patent trial between Apple and Samsung, the companies and their lawyers are left waiting and wondering what the jury made of the three weeks of arguments. ...
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UK-based Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) has said that it expects manufacturers and compliance schemes to meet their glass packaging recycling obligations for 2012 and has warned of enforcement action on those who ...
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Global smartphone shipments grew to 173.7 million units in Q3 2012,representing 44%growth from 120.4 million in Q3 2011. The statistics from Canalys revealed Samsung and Apple accounted for nearly 50%of the global market share.Samsung ...
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Agile software development expertise will be in higher demand than HTML skills by the end of the year as recruiters increasingly look for staff with experience using the software development methodology. According to the latest figures ...
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Capgemini has lowered pricing in its consulting and local professional services businesses according to its latest quarter results. The IT services firm's UK and Ireland sales fell 6.9%in its third quarter 2012s. Capgemini consulting ...
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Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)plans to cut as many as 2,340 jobs,or about 20%of its workforce. The cuts are expected to be announced as early as next week,according to Bloomberg,citing an anonymous source as the plans are not yet ...
Disk storage capacity shipped by vendors worldwide surpassed 7 exabytes for the first time in a quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker report. The total disk storage capacity shipped by vendors in the ...
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