The multi national mining company Rio Tinto has long promised that its proposed new copper mine near the small town of Superior, Ariz., would provide 4,000 jobs and economic salvation for a local population that has struggled to find work ...
RIO Tinto has warned it may cut more jobs from its aluminium and coal businesses as it seeks to rein in unsustainable cost increases. In an investor update, the mining giant also says it expects growth in China's steel demand to peak ...
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The U.S.General Services Administration,Largest Tenant in US,has turned its attention to LEDs. According to the GSA,energy efficiency is becoming a way of life,not only to cut costs at more than 9,600 assets that it owns or rents,but also ...
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The Moscow Times reported that if Ukraine turns its plans to slash Russian gas imports into a reality, Gazprom will demand that Naftogaz pay billions of dollars for the 2013 import shortfall as per the take or pay provision outlined in the ...
The Australian reported that cost cutting around the globe by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton continues with the pair cutting 400 jobs or 75% of the workforce at their USD 6 billion plus Resolution copper JV in Arizona. The cuts at the Rio ...
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Three of Japan's tech giants will work together to increase data transmission speeds over optical fiber,aiming for 400Gbps per channel by 2014. Fujitsu,NTT and NEC said Tuesday they will aim to combine 60 channels using the new ...
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The firm has already outsourced production of other products as part of huge efficiency drive, Japanese company Hitachi has confirmed that it will discontinue production of semiconductors used in information and telecommunication ...
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The job cuts amount to about 5% of TI's nearly 35,000 employees worldwide US based semiconductor firm Texas Instruments (TI) is planning to cut about 1,700 jobs globally to reduce costs as part of its plans to shift focus from ...
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To handle oversupply of NAND flash memory in the retail market Japanese electronics maker Toshiba said it will cut production of its flash memory chips, used to store data in mobile gadgets, by around 30% to adjust excess inventory ...
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Dixons Retail will deploy cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 software across its operation in the UK and Ireland,Czech Republic and Hong Kong,the owner of the retail chain,and others including PC World and Currys has announced. The ...
Malta based underwriter GlobalCapital has deployed BSB's Solife software to administer its full range of life insurance portfolio, in a bid to offer better services to the customers, while improving business efficiency. With the launch of ...
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Microsoft is set to slash Windows Azure Storage prices by 28% from 12 December 2012. The news comes just days after Google cut its cloud-based storage prices by 20% and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a 25% price reduction for Amazon ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Ukraine plans to slash its gas imports from Russia to 18 billion cubic meters in 2013 from 27.5 billion cubic meters this year. Mr Yuriy Boyko energy minister of Ukraine said that "We have already informed our ...
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The Drungs, with a population of 5.817, mainly live in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, and along the banks of the Dulong River in Gongshan Drung-Nu Autonomous County in the northwest Yunnan Province. Cooking on a stone stove. ...
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The Jinos, with a population of 18.021, mainly live in the Jino Township of Jingliong Counly, Xishuangbanno Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. A few can be round in Mengwang, Mengyang, Ganlanba and Dadugang of Jinghong County and ...
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