Google will invest $200 million in a wind farm project in west Texas, part of the Internet giant's continuing interest in funding renewable energy projects, the company said Wednesday. The equity investment is in the Spinning Spur Wind ...
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Japan exported 65,941 tons of stainless steel flat products in November, decreasing by 2.7% from a month ago while rising by 21.8% year on year, according to statistics released by the country’s Ministry of Finance. In November, ...
IDG News Service - SAP's flagship Business Suite enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can now run on top of the HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and ...
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In a speech to be delivered today in Hong Kong, the Treasurer says he is due to hold further talks with Hong Kong financial secretary John Tsang this week in a bid to increase yuan investment and trade with Australia. The negotiations to ...
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In a statement issued to the London Stock Exchange (LSE), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has a potential “significant acquisition”. This follows UK newspaper The Times reporting that, to ...
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According to statistics released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance, Japan exported 18,000 tons of H beams in November, falling by 10.2% from a month ago and decreasing by 2.5% year on year. The average export prices of H beams were at ...
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Xerox CFO Luca Maestri(pictured)is swapping the world of photocopiers for iPads,as he prepares to leave the company to join Apple as corporate controller. Maestri will start work at the iPhone and iPad producer on 28 February.He joined ...
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The prestigious itSMF (IT Service Management Forum) UK Awards 2012 saw Marval customer Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) ICT pick up the IT Service Innovation of the Year Award for RoamKey; a stand-alone operating system stored ...
CO2 emissions per unit of value-added industrial output in China will decrease by over 21 percent by 2015 compared to 2010, while a decrease of 18 percent is targeted for the domestic steel industry, according to the Industry Plan on ...
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According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance,Japan's stainless flat steel exports totaled 65,941 metric tons in November 2012,falling by 2.7 percent month on month and up 21.8 percent compared to November 2011. In the ...
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The Pantry has named B Clyde Preslar as SVP and chief financial officer. Preslar joints The Pantry from RetailAmerica, where he served as finance chief since 2008. Previously he held financial positions with Cott Corp and Lance. He will ...
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Researchers at University of Notre Dame and Kopin Corp have developed high-performance nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with indium gallium nitride (InGaN) channels [Ronghua Wang et al, Appl. Phys. Express, ...
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Dr Gareth Jones,Gary Gould and Dr David Hardman of the Birmingham Science Park LUX-TSI,the accredited laboratory services company,has secured£430,000 of investment to expand facilities at its Birmingham operations and at its ...
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January 8, 2013 - Mike Gentile, vice president and general manager of Philips Lighting Canada, announced today the formation of a single customer facing sales organization representing the entire Philips Lighting portfolio previously ...
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Matheson of Basking Ridge, NJ, USA, a subsidiary of Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC), says that William J. Kroll has transferred to the role of executive chairman of the board of directors, effective 2 January 2013. Kroll was ...