Alcatel-Lucent on Friday announced that its board of directors had appointed Michael Combes as the firm’s new CEO, following Ben Verwaayen’s resignation from the top job earlier this month. Combes’ appointment will be ...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg • Whitman (Meg Whitman) said on its first-quarter phone conference on Thursday, the company will adhere to the unified development strategy and will not spin-off its PC business. Whitman said: "We do not ...
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Icicle Seafoods, a US-based seafood company, has appointed Amy Humphreys as its new president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Amy Humphreys worked as a president of Delta Western, a leading petroleum marketing and ...
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At Sony's PlayStation press conference in New York yesterday, it became official: the next-gen PlayStation 4 gaming console is arriving for the 2013 holiday season. Sony's event was more of a teaser than an unveiling, though: The company ...
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Lantronix has signed a global distribution agreement with Mouser Electronics. Mouser will sell Lantronix’s line of M2M communications devices which are used for data sharing between devices and applications. According to ...
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The Conference of Anesthesia by OMICS Publishing Group was held from November 26-28, 2012 at Hilton San Antonio Airport, USA. The Conference on anesthesia by OMICS Publishing Group invited experts with specific knowledge on the means and ...
The executive board of Rettenmeier Holding decided at the beginning of February to terminate production of production pallets still in progress at the Gaildorf-Unterrot site of Rettenmeier Holzindustrie Gaildorf GmbH & Co. KG with effect ...
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The US consumer goods group Masco decided in early February 2013 to put its Danish subsidiary Tvilum up for sale. Tvilum, a producer of flatpack furniture, has been facing considerable decline in turnover and losses over the last few years. ...
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A Walter E. Smithe Furniture commercial featuring Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and his wrestling company is raising money for charity while enjoying a good deal of media attention. According to a Chicago Tribune report, Corgan ...
Newspaper The Sun has teamed up with LEGO to give away five free toys, starting this weekend. A LEGO Lucky Dip is scheduled to run for one week in the paper. The Sun will launch a 'Cheer Up Britain' campaign, and within that, readers ...
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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Photo courtesy of the ABC. The Qantas Group has announced statutory profit after tax of $111 million and underlying profit before tax of $223 million for the six months ended 31 December 2012. This includes $125 ...
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The Toll Group has released its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2012. With the exception of its Global Forwarding division, the Toll Group has returned a solid half-year result. The company has benefitted from recent ...
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The potential new collectable toy craze, Floppets will launch into the UK with The Entertainer. The toy retailer is planning a significant in-store joint marketing campaign across all of its 80 stores over the Easter and May half term ...
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For full-year 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported revenue of $112.6m, down 26.3% on 2011’s $152.8m. However, although down 16.5% on $36.5m a ...
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Silicon photonics firm Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, CA, USA, which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for the communications, computing, sensing and detection markets, says that, at its ...
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