Global travel firm Carlson Wagonlit Travel(CWT)has appointed Kevin O'Connor as its executive vice president and chief information officer. O'Connor,formerly CIO at online gambling firm Paddy Power and,more recently,at the technology arm ...
Private investment firm TPG has signed an agreement with Investcorp to acquire heavy-duty truck and trailer parts retailer FleetPride for an undisclosed amount. The transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2012, is ...
Danaher Corp (DHR.N) and Cooper Industries (CBE.N) will sell their hand and power tools joint venture, Apex Tool Group, to Bain Capital for about $1.6 billion, joining a growing group of U.S. conglomerates that is divesting its non-core ...
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Taipei,Oct.9,2012(CENS)--MediaTek Inc.became the world's No.3 supplier of smartphone processors in the first half of this year mostly thanks to strong market for low-priced smartphones of mainland China,where the Taiwanese fabless company ...
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PVH Corp.announced a multi-year marketing partnership between its IZOD brand and 2012 U.S.Open champion Webb Simpson.As part of the multi-year agreement that begins in 2013,Simpson will wear IZOD Golf apparel on-course and contribute to ...
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has selected CMOS-based PAs from Javelin Semiconductor Inc of Austin,TX,USA to support its new Galaxy S Duos Android-based smartphone,which features a 4-inch touchscreen,1 GHz processor,5 megapixel ...
Validus Holdings and Flagstone Reinsurance have inked a deal, in accordance with which the former will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Flagstone in a move to strengthen Validus’ leading property catastrophe ...
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The take-up of mobile technology will have a dramatic affect on back-office IT systems, with hidden costs and disruptions possible for companies that do not redesign systems and processes, according to Forrester Research. Businesses are ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS)founded in 1990,has closed its initial public offering(announced on 7 August).In connection ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS)founded in 1990,has raised$77m in its initial public offering(IPO)of 5,500,000 shares of ...
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Viscount Plastics was acquired by Linpac in 2001. It manufactures and markets rigid plastic containers, plastic packaging and other plastic products. The division has production facilities in Australia, New Zealand, China and Malaysia, ...
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In just over three years Putzmeister’s world, fashioned around the unforgiving business of concrete, came crashing down around it. For nearly half a century the Stuttgart-based company along with Schwing, its German arch rival, had ...
Manufacturing probably picked up in the U. S. In March, showing it is weathering a slowdown in global growth, economists said before a report today. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index climbed to 53 from 52.4 in ...
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CVC Capital Partners Ltd., the buyout firm that owns Formula One, agreed to buy Ahlsell AB for 1.8 billion euros ($2.4 billion) to expand in the wholesale supply of tools, machinery and building products. CVC is buying the Stockholm-based ...
Asian stocks rose, with a regional benchmark index headed for its biggest monthly rally since September 2010, as Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said major progress was made in debt-swap talks and Japan’s industrial production ...
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