Internet giant Google has initiated testing of its autonomous cars on the public streets in Austin, Texas, to ascertain the way the prototypes negotiate with traffic, obstacles and road conditions. The company has been conducting trials ...
Tags: automobile, self-driving car, auto parts, autonomous cars
Japanese automotive giant Honda will adopt a twin-pronged strategy, involving the promotion of a global operation framework across six regions and designing challenging products. This has been disclosed by new Honda president and CEO ...
Tags: green vehciles, auto parts, Honda, Honda's Nigeria unit
China's producer prices continue to fall in June, a sign of prolonged weakness of demand, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday. The producer price index, a measure of costs for goods at the factory gate, fell 4.8 ...
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Luxury British bedmaker Savoir has announced the opening of its first company-owned showroom in the heart of Paris’s luxurious shopping district. Set on the exclusive rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, the new store is located on ...
Tags: bed manufacture, Savoir, luxury bed manufacture, hand-crafted beds
Designer Pamela Froman’s new “Wedding Jewels” collection ranges in price from $2,000 to $10,000 retail, with a few pieces reaching as high as $30,000. Click through the slideshow to see six rings from Pamela ...
Australian-owned Coopers Brewery has released a new ale, ‘2015 Extra Strong Vintage’. The new beer is the latest in Coopers vintage line which sees a different beverage ‘vintage’ introduced to the market each year. ...
Cargill has invested $4m to expand its ability to serve farmer customers with crop inputs, such as seed and fertilizer. The project is expected to be completed in time for the 2016 crop year. "In the past, we shared storage space in ...
Tags: crop inputs, agriculture, seed, fertilizer
In a change of course just six months after announcing an end to subsidies for its cotton farmers, Egypt has stopped all cotton imports in a bid to assist the production and marketing of the local crop, according to media reports. Egypt ...
Tags: cotton manufacture, cotton imports
ATLANTA — Strong upholstery and dining room business and larger sales tickets helped Havertys to a 7.2% second-quarter sales gain and a 4.8% same-store sales increase, the company reported. For the quarter ended June 30, the Top 100 ...
Tags: dining room, furniture
The Wild West themed family tabletop game has picked up the Game of the Year award in Germany. Esdevium’s popular family game Colt Express has clinched this year’s Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award. Widely considered ...
Tags: Toy, new game, tabletop game
July is here to bring us sunshine, county fairs, and carnivals. But some farmers are still in the fields working on planting or harvest they usually would have had done weeks ago. But June brought on record precipitation – two to ...
Representatives from China and Italy opened the door to the Nanjing yunjin pavilion for the first time at 10:30 am on July 7 in Italy’s fashion capital of Milan. The opening marked the commencement of the eagerly awaited Nanjing week ...
Imec of Leuven, Belgium and its partners have completed a three-year program (2012-2015) to leverage a variety of silicon photonics technologies by making them accessible for industry and academia worldwide. Within the ESSenTIAL program ...
Tags: Silicon photonics, ESSenTIAL program, electrical equipment
X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany - an analog/mixed-signal and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry - has announced what it claims is the first cost-efficient 180nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology for automotive ...
Tags: X-FAB, SOI, electrical components
I’ve just returned from several weeks travelling across the United States. It is fabulous to be home – and to appreciate just how lucky we are in Australia to live in an amazing part of the world. We see so much ...
Tags: food opinion, food culture