With Christmas on the horizon, now is as good a time as ever to buy a bargain console bundle. Amazon has discounted the Sony PlayStation 4 – with Watchdogs and the new Watchdogs 2 included – to just £249.99, down from ...
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Efforts to reduce China's steel production overcapacity are forging ahead according to plan, the top economic planner said Wednesday. In a medium-term roundup of the drive, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said, in an ...
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The Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, continued to weaken on Tuesday but analysts said more sharp depreciation is unlikely. The central parity rate of the yuan weakened 10 basis points to 6.6971 against the U.S. dollar, the weakest ...
There's an old saying in China that a word is worth a thousand pieces of gold, but one anti-corruption official's accusations involving the name change of a medicinal herb may prove it can cost much more. Lu Qun, deputy director of an ...
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Delivery ceremony of FAW Jiefang 2014 intelligent slag trucks with National 4 emission standards was held in Beijing on June 10, 2014. Senior management from FAW Jiefang Sales Company and New Hongchang Heavy Industry Company and Beijing ...
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China's consumer quality watchdog issued a warning Monday morning over two potentially tainted New Zealand-made Karicare-brand infant formula products because of botulism concerns. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, ...
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About a third of the country's baby formula businesses will be axed, in what experts are calling a major consolidation of the industry. The government has been trying to revive the industry since the 2008 melamine scandal, but consumer ...
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The New York State Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure that allows the New York City Board of Elections to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines around the city with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the ...
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Google has revealed a new version of Google Maps, designed to make it personal to each user. Built with the ethos of "a map for every person and place", new features will include real-time displays of barriers to journeys - such as ...
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Google has submitted a package of concessions to the European Commission (EC) as it attempts to avoid a fine following an antitrust investigation. Over the past two and a half years, European Union (EU) competition regulators have been ...
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Google's privacy policy is set to be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to see if it's compliant with current UK law. The move comes after data watchdogs in five other European nations - France, Germany, Italy, ...
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Concerns about the increased cost of compliance with privacy regulations influenced Google's decision to shut down Google Reader from July. According to an anonymous source speaking to AllThingsD, Google is attempting to better manage how ...
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French EU privacy regulator CNIL is to take action against Google this summer, according to a statement the body has released on its website. CNIL's statement explains how after several months of investigation, European data protection ...
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In a question-and-answer session on Reddit Wednesday, Microsoft's Surface Pro team ignored most questions about the tablet's battery life, but hinted that the company might sell an add-on battery pack in the future. Even the team's sole ...
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Security watchdogs are now worried about a new attack vendor that cybercriminals could take advantage of – the growing number of devices that routinely use the Internet to function. Machine-to-machine (M2M) security is closely ...
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