As tech clichés go, “big data” falls somewhere between “cloud” and “social” on the list of terms you’re probably tired of hearing — ideas so broad they mean hardly anything at all. ...
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On April 18, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in early April (Apr. 1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.747 million mt, up ...
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An environmentally friendly, metallized polypropylene film capacitor for DC-link applications has bveen launched by Vishay Intertechnology. The MKP1848C DC-link capacitor offers a broad capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and ...
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Spidey comes with six hand positions, four long web effects, two swinging web effects and two shooting web effects. Hot Toys has revealed its new Amazing Spider-Man 2 figure. Set to land in Q3 2014, the 1/6 scale figure of Spidey comes ...
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The fourth quarter of 2013 showed signs of improvement in small business loans. For the first time in 15 consecutive quarters, both the value and volume of small business loans increased simultane-ously 0.4 percent and 1.1 percent ...
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Global market for industrial laser systems worth $10.7BN in 2013, says Optech’s Arnold Mayer. Respected industrial laser market forecaster Arnold Mayer says that the global market for laser materials processing systems hit a record ...
Privately-owned housing starts in March were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 946,000. This is 2.8 percent (±14.7 percent) above the revised February estimate of 920,000, but is 5.9 percent (±8.4 percent) below the ...
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Soybean futures topped out Tuesday above $15/bushel for the first time in quite a while on news that there's a lot of demand for both the oilseed and its oil. The National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA) announced Tuesday soybean ...
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IBM Research's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Northwestern University have developed a technique to grow hexagonal- and cubic-phase gallium nitride (h-/c-GaN) on standard (100) silicon (Si) [Can Bayram et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., ...
New line features the characters Star Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Gamora, Drax, Iron Man in his Guardians of the Galaxy armour and Nova. Marvel Comics has released first look images of the new line of Marvel Legends Guardians of the Galaxy ...
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In March this year, the average aggregate daily crude steel output in China amounted to 2.2661 million mt, up 2.2 percent compared to the average daily figure recorded in the January-February period this year and constituting a new record ...
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Footfall on the High Street was 2.6% higher than the previous year for March, says BRC. Shoppers are returning to the High Street, with latest figures from the BRC/Springboard Footfall monitor showing that footfall in March was 1.8 per ...
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The exports of woven apparel and clothing accessories (under HS code 62) from the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia grew marginally by 1.76 percent to US$ 697.5 million in the first two months of the current year, compared to exports of ...
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The exports of woven apparel and clothing accessories (under HS code 62) from the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia grew marginally by 1.76 percent to US$ 697.5 million in the first two months of the current year, compared to exports of ...
Tags: Apparel, woven apparel
Iron ore prices are likely to drop to $115/dry mt CFR China this year, lower than Q1's $120.68/dmt average, forcing as much as 70-80 million mt/year of high-cost Chinese supplies to shut, Standard Bank said Monday. Iron ore reference ...
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