PC vendors, in order to reflect continual hikes in component costs, including display panels, DRAM, SSDs, Li batteries, plan to raise retail prices when new models equipped with revised Kaby Lake processors are launched in the third quarter ...
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Volvo Cars is expanding production of XC40 small SUV in Europe and China in order to meet increasing demand. The company said that it has received nearly 80,000 orders for the SUV and will expand production at its Ghent manufacturing ...
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Global smartphone shipments fell by 2.4% year-on-year from 253.8 million units to 345.4 million units in first-quarter 2018, according to a report by the Strategy Analytics Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service. “The global ...
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Mercedes-Benz Cars is investing more than €100m in a battery factory in Thailand. With a strategic decision Mercedes-Benz Cars is enhancing the manufacturing footprint in South-East Asia addressing growing demand for electric ...
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German automaker Volkswagen has unveiled its new electric-powered I.D Vizzion concept at the 2018 Geneva motor show. The fourth member of the I.D. Family features Level 5 automation and artificial intelligence (AI). Based on the MEB ...
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Fonterra Ventures has partnered with German active nutrition start-up foodspring via an investment in its parent firm, Goodminton. The new partnership will enable Fonterra to tap into the rapidly growing active nutrition consumer segment, ...
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The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automotive alliance announced that its member companies sold a combined total of 10,608,366 units in the 12 months to 31 December 2017. Growing demand for SUVs, light commercial vehicles and a rising number ...
Groupe Renault has debuted what it claims to be the world’s first in autonomous obstacle avoidance that matches professional test drivers. Renault Open Innovation Lab, which is based in Silicon Valley, developed the new feature for ...
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Automaker Ford Motor is targeting $10bn in incremental material cost reductions and lower engineering costs by $4bn from planned levels over the next five years. Ford’s newly appointed CEO and president Jim Hackett noted that the ...
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GAC Motor, China-based automaker, has unveiled two SUVs, the 5-seat GS7 and the GS3 in watertown Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, China. These two next-generation SUVs, which have inherited the excellent genes of the GAC Motor family, are ...
Bentley Motors will debut three new models at the upcoming Monterey Auto Week to be held between 17-20 August in the city of Monterey, California, US. At the auto week, the company will showcase the Continental Supersports, Bentayga W12 ...
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Canon Solutions America has added two new flatbed cutters to its Colex Sharpcut product line. The Colex Sharpcut range of Digital Finishing System was introduced last year as an entry-level cutting solution for customers. With the new ...
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Sedans have always held an important place in the automotive market, especially if it’s the Chinese market that we are speaking about. The world’s biggest automotive market, China, offers immense potential to automakers to ...
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It would be difficult to imagine the entertainment sector without fascinating lighting effects and precision lighting from Osram. For years the company has been setting new standards in the entertainment sector. Together with its renowned ...
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German luxury car-maker BMW plans to launch 40 new or revised models under its brands BMW, Mini and Rolls Royce by 2018 as it looks to compete against its rival Mercedes. The company will focus on top end and premium segments in its ...
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