Taiwan Epistar's board of directors has agreed with a proposal to acquire Huga Optotech Inc. as its wholly owned subsidiary by all-stock swap at ratio of one Epistar share for 4.85 Huga shares. Baseline date for the swap is tentatively ...
Sapiens International, which offers insurance solutions, has posted solid revenue of $27.2m, for the second quarter of 2012, up by 91% from $14.3m during the same period earlier year. For the latest quarter period, its operating income ...
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US private-label food group Ralcorp Holdings has reported an increase in third-quarter profits, helped by higher sales and a gain from hedging contracts. Ralcorp, which makes cereals, sauces and pasta for US retailers, booked net earnings ...
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LED chipmaker Epistar will completely take over subsidiary Huga Optotech through a share swap in which one Epistar share will be exchanged for 4.85 Huga shares, Epistar has announced. The merger will take effect on December 28, 2012. The ...
GSI Group hit by scientific market slowdown 09 Aug 2012 Sales of fiber lasers from subsidiary JK Lasers triple year-on-year, but scientific orders are delayed. JK Lasers' carbon dioxide laser GSI Group, the owner of well-known ...
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According to a new report, "Status of the LED Industry," a cost reduction per lumen of packaged LEDs by a factor ten is necessary for mass LED adoption to occur in lighting. Growth of the LED industry has come initially from the small ...
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LAS VEGAS — World Market Center Las Vegas announced that 22 tenants signed long-term, permanent leases before the 2012 Summer Las Vegas Market, which took place July 30-Aug. 3. In total, new tenants will occupy 250,000 square feet ...
Yole Développement and EPIC announce their report dedicated to the LED industry:"Status of the LED Industry".The report presents all applications of LEDs and associated market metrics,LED cost reduction opportunities,entire LED value ...
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US snacks firm Snyder's-Lance has reported an increase in first-half profits despite lower sales. Earnings in the six months to the end of June amounted to US$33.8m from$7.3m in the prior-year period,the company reported today(7 August). ...
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3M has dropped its $US550 million takeover of Avery Dennison's office products division after the US Justice Department said it would take legal action if the companies didn't abandon the transaction. The Justice Department said in a ...
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American International Group (AIG)'s life and retirement business, SunAmerica Financial Group has earmarked a definitive agreement with The Hartford Financial Services to purchase Woodbury Financial Services for an undisclosed sum. Upon ...
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In a deal that should help Apple boost its enterprise security offerings, the iPhone maker is planning to buy mobile security company AuthenTec for $8 per share or a little over $356 million, AuthenTec said on Friday. AuthenTec provides ...
Optical communications and laser component,module and subsystem makers Oclaro Inc of San Jose,CA,USA and Opnext Inc of Fremont,CA,USA have announced shareholder approval of their merger(announced in late March).Opnext shareholders will ...
Optical communications and laser component,module and subsystem makers Oclaro Inc of San Jose,CA,USA and Opnext Inc of Fremont,CA,USA have provided an update regarding their proposed merger. At their respective stockholder ...
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Despite a cumulative silicon carbide (SiC) raw wafer and epiwafer market that will not exceed $80m in 2012, the body of related patents comprises more than 1772 patent families and over 350 companies since 1928, according to the report ...
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