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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Food processing firm Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is realigning business segments to further accelerate growth. The company announced the realignment of its business segments across four units – Carbohydrate Solutions, Nutrition, ...
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Norway-based Tomra Group has agreed to acquire New Zealand-based BBC Technologies for NZD66.9m ($48.9m) Based in Hamilton, BBC Technologies provides solutions for sorting, optimising, and packing small fruit. The company designs, ...
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Ford is investing $25m at its Kentucky plant to increase production of its Lincoln Navigator, Expedition SUVs in order to meet increasing customer demand. The company claimed that Navigator retail sales were up triple digits in most ...
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Stora Enso has collaborated with Microsoft to provide cloud-based intelligent packaging solutions for the global clients. Stora Enso’s intelligent packaging will use Microsoft Azure, a cloud platform for business digitalization. ...
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HERE Technologies and Mitsubishi Electric have unveiled plans to link their technologies for autonomous vehicles into an integrated offering for automakers. Under the preliminary deal, the companies intend to provide services to support ...
Ecommerce analytics firm Profitero has found the construction toy firm is still number one with consumers. LEGO is the brand leading the ‘most wished-for’ product list in the toys & games category online running up to the ...
Although the market for RF gallium arsenide (GaAs) devices (merchant and captive, but excluding foundry) rose by just 0.9% in 2016 as an anticipated drop in cellular revenue nearly offset gains in other market segments, revenue still ...
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Finland-based Stora Enso has deployed the cloud-based data management platform of Rubrik at its paper mill in Langerbrugge, Ghent to safeguard its virtual and physical workloads. Headquartered in Helsinki, Stora Enso provides renewable ...
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RF gallium nitride (GaN) device revenue rose by slightly more than 23% in 2016, and will increase at a compound annual average growth rate (CAAGR) of 14.1% to $733m in 2021, forecasts the Strategy Analytics Strategic Component Applications ...
Thin Film Electronics has provided its near field communication (NFC) technology to British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) over-the-counter (OTC) brand Flonase. GSK has deployed Thinfilm’s SpeedTap tags to create ...
A specialized packaging provider in the US has selected TrackX Holdings’ GAME for Supply Chain Management (SCM) platform to manage and optimize supply chain assets and related business processes. TrackX Holdings, based in Denver, ...
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Rudolph Technologies will launch its new Truebump technology on the Dragonfly inspection system at SEMICON Taiwan, which is due to be held from 13 to 15 September 2017. The new Truebump technology delivers quick, accurate and repeatable ...
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Swiss cosmetics brand Valmont Cosmetics is using Thinfilm’s NFC solutions to transform beauty products into consumer beauty experiences. A partnership and related market trial has been formed by Thin Film Electronics with ...
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Patent Portfolios--6th in the Semiconductor-Manufacturing Sector and 24th Overall Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator ...
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