After some mixed results from early models tested in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's (IIHS) new small overlap crash test, the latest batch of vehicles earn top scores. The Volvo XC60 and two- and four-door versions of the ...
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Alongside other innovations we've seen in new Windows 8 computers comes the Transformer AiO from Asus: It's an all-in-one desktop computer with a detachable screen that you can use as an 18.4-inch tablet. If that's not enough, it's also the ...
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Mercedes Benz Mexico reportedly invested US$15 million in expanding its bus manufacturing plant in the municipality of Garcia, in the northern state of Nuevo Leon. Harald Hauke, vice president of Mercedes Benz Mexico, indicated that the ...
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Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has withdrawn its notice requiring ArcelorMittal South Africa to halt operation of certain units at its Vanderbijlpark plant and confirmed that it is satisfied that ArcelorMittal South ...
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Statistics Canada reported Thursday that building permits in the country totaled $5.8 billion in January, up 1.7 percent from December. The increase in the residential sector more than offset a decrease in the non-residential sector. ...
ECRU, Miss. --- Promotional upholstery producer American Furniture Mfg. reported a 13.2% sales decline in 2012, but the company reduced its operating loss to $1.52 million. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by parent company ...
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Eric Schenk Alex Shuford III Eric Schenk will retire as president and CEO of Century Furniture on April 1 and Alex Shuford III, currently the vice president of sales and marketing, will take over as president, the company announced ...
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Wolfgang Dehen, CEO of Osram Osram has agreed to sell its production site in Shaoxing, China, as part of its plan to save €1 billion (864.5 billion) by 2015. The lighting manufacturer mostly produces CFLs at the factory, where it ...
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Opinions expressed on Twitter differ from public opinion measured by surveys on key political events and policy issues, reflecting that users of the Internet service are demographically very different from the public, according to a study ...
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Large businesses must deal with the same level of uncertainty as start-ups, and so need to experiment more and react quicker, said Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels, speaking at The Economist's Technology Frontiers summit ...
Briggs & Stratton has announced the recall of 5,400 Ariens 920014 Snow-Throw snow blowers. A carburetor-bowl nut can allow fuel to escape from recalled units, creating a fire hazard. The Ariens 920014 appears in Consumer Reports' snow ...
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Well, that was fast. Only two weeks after a white 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee diesel press car visited our track for initial driving impressions, I drove another white 2014 Grand Cherokee off of the dealer's lot to add to our test fleet. ...
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Every month Google publishes the relative number of (active) devices running a given version of the Android platform, and the figures for the last month have just been released. The main points of interest this month are that Android 4.1 ...
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Samsung is to buy 3% of Sharp for $110m. Key to the deal is Samsung agreeing that it will have 'no involvement in Sharp's business development in any way or form.' It is thought that a potential deal with Foxconn foundered when the ...
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The US flooring group Mohawk intends to deliver significant growth in the years ahead. The company has announced three major takeovers since October 2012: Pergo laminate flooring activities from Pfleiderer, the Italian tile producer Marazzi ...
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