There was little surprise when Time magazine named Donald Trump its ‘Person of the Year.’ Love him or hate him, Trump left his mark more than any other individual on 2016. Notably, the choice says as much about the impact he ...
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Pfizer, Merck and Corning have unveiled a new pharmaceutical glass packaging solution, which is claimed to improve the storage and delivery of the existing drug formulations. Merck and Pfizer have combined their pharmaceutical formulation ...
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France’s new ecology minister Nicolas Hulot has announced that the country will ban the sale of petrol and diesel-powered vehicles by 2040. The announcement is part of the country’s commitment to Paris climate agreement. It ...
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Ford said it will start importing Focus compact cars from China in the second half of 2019, cancelling earlier plans to build the small-car model in Mexico. Models will come from the company’s existing Focus plants globally. ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook and US President Donald Trump are probably as far removed from each other on the political scale as its possible for two people to be. However, the big boss man in Cupertino appears to be learning a thing or two from ...
Toyota is spending $1.33bn at its Kentucky manufacturing facility as part of its plan to invest $10bn in the US over the next five years. The move adds to the $530m invested in 2013 to support the production of Lexus. With the present ...
US automaker Ford Motor is investing $1.2bn in three manufacturing facilities in Michigan to prepare for production of the new Ranger and Bronco vehicles. Of the total amount, the automaker plans to invest $850m on Michigan assembly plant ...
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Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell on Tuesday as technical elements put pressure on the precious metal. The most active gold contract for April delivery fell 4.9 U.S. dollars, or 0.39 percent, to ...
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Toyota said it will boost SUV production at an Indiana factory with a $600m investment, which could add 400 jobs. The investment is part of the company’s strategy of localisation to build vehicles where they are sold. It will be ...
What would be your prediction for lighting in 10 years’ time? Majority of commercial members won’t be supplying commodity type luminaires but in order to prosper will need to adapt to the need for more specialist products or ...
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China's direct investment in the U.S. is expected to grow fast in 2017, but political realties pose major downside risk to it, according to a research report by a U.S. consulting firm. Chinese companies invested a record of 45.6 billion ...
Is Apple looking into manufacturing the iPhone in the US? According to the Nikkei Asian Review it is. On Thursday, the Japan-based business publication cited an anonymous source in reporting that Apple had asked the two Asia-based firms ...
Donald Trump has a lot of talking to do these days. It's heartening, then, that he's good at it. During his highly informative meeting with The New York Times on Tuesday -- happily live-tweeted by Times journalists -- Trump touched on ...
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It's never a good idea to steal from work, even when the payload is thousands of iPhones. One now-ex senior manager at Apple supplier Foxconn has reportedly been indicted for stealing and reselling 5,700 iPhones from the Foxconn factory. ...
Apple may be considering an investment in a tech fund from Japan's SoftBank Group, which is hoping to raise $100 billion. That would make it one of the world's biggest tech funds. If Apple signs on, the fund would count the world's most ...