Is your car watching your every move? Can the cable company track your DVR habits? Those two privacy issues are bubbling up in Congress, where lawmakers this week filed bipartisan legislation that would give car owners control over data ...
Tags: Black Box Recorder, Lawmaker, DVR Snooping
WASHINGTON -- Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker and more dire. China's retaking of the global supercomputing ...
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When the metal crown lid is popped open by the opener, beer foam spews out and the bottle lid goes to life's end. In most of the time throughout its life, the metal crown lid fights with gas pressure in the bottle and tries its best to fit ...
US-based Techne has agreed to buy Bionostics Holdings and its operating subsidiary Bionostics, for $104m in cash. The deal is likely to close in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 Bionostics manufactures control solutions that authenticate ...
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It is not always easy fitting your full sized drill/driver into tight spaces or in awkward positions, and that's what led Joel Townsan to invent a new compact driver that offers a total of 168 configurations—so you are sure find one ...
While the Indian textile industry is an important component of the domestic economy, the global importance of the Indian textile sector is steadily growing. And individual companies are quite capable of achieving global success and ...
Tags: India, Textile, Rayon Products
China Mengniu Dairy is set to purchase a 75.3% stake in Yashili International for $1.6bn from its controlling shareholders, Zhang International Investment and CA Dairy Holdings. Yashili is currently one of the largest domestic pediatric ...
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US carmaker General Motors (GM) has started construction of new manufacturing plant for its luxury automobile and SUV division, Cadillac, in Shanghai, China. Additionally, a new research and development (R&D) facility is being built by ...
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Dollar General Corporation announced the completion of $200 million in share repurchases of its common stock in the open market. "The strength of our balance sheet coupled with our strong cash flow generation makes this an opportune time ...
Dutch financial services firm ING has completed the sale of approximately 7.9% direct stake in Brazil-based insurance provider Sul América to International Finance Corporation (IFC). The sale follows the agreement that ING entered ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Simcere Pharmaceutical Group have extended their collaboration to develop and commercialize the subcutaneous (SC) formulation of Bristol-Myers Squibb's biologic medicine, Orencia (abatacept), in China. Orencia was ...
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has signed an agreement to purchase pharmaceutical and drug delivery company, MicroDose Therapeutx, to strengthen its respiratory franchise. The deal involves acquisition of all of MicroDose's outstanding ...
Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai is all set to invest £8m at its Hatfield, Hertfordshire production plant in the UK to create an additional packaging facility. Eisai Manufacturing, the company's UK manufacturing subsidiary ...
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As part of an ongoing effort to keep New Yorkers connected, AT&T and Bloomberg administration officials today unveiled AT&T Street Charge. This pilot initiative provides free solar mobile charging stations in locations across all five ...
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Pacific Light Technologies (PLT), the maker in quantum dot downconverters for solid state lighting and displays, announces that Robert Walker, Ph.D. has joined their Board of Directors to aid the transition of the company from a development ...
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