Toys R Us is harnessing the power of augmented reality to help bring the ailing retailer from the brink of bankruptcy, it has been revealed. In the midst of its ongoing financial struggles, CEO Dave Brandon has detailed the ...
Two long and specialty steel producers in Brazil filed for bankruptcy last week, according to media reports. Both companies belong to the Wilson Santos group. Cisam Siderurgia and Ciafal, located in the cities of Para de Minas and ...
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Federal court records show that the Oct. 8 bankruptcy filing by the nation's largest organic peanut butter processor was sparked by Issaquah, WA-based Costco, a membership-based warehouse club, when it unilaterally terminated a deal it had ...
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When the world was digesting news of Detroit’s bankruptcy in July, the biggest ever by a municipality in the US, attention in China turned to the highly indebted government of Jiangsu province. Provincial, city and county authorities ...
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The Australian dollar is slightly higher after a quiet day of trade. At 5pm today, the local unit was buying 91.71 US cents, up from 91.52 cents yesterday. Bond markets gained strength after Detroit became the largest city in US history ...
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Luxury plug-in hybrid carmaker Fisker Automotive looks set to file for bankruptcy protection in the US as soon as this week, according to latest reports. Under pressure from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to re-pay nearly US$200 ...
IDG News Service - Former Atari Interactive CEO Frederic Chesnais has decided to take a 25.23% stake in the company in a bid to save it from bankruptcy, Atari announced Tuesday. He will pay principle shareholder BlueBay just 400 euros for ...
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The solar industry believes market conditions will improve in 2013 because firms now have a consensus to stop price competition. In addition, firms that dumped products and disrupted prices now have lower inventory levels, hence the market ...
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US-based automobile maker GM has been conducting R&D with professionals in different industries on the possibility of storing energy on used automobile lithium batteries. Digitimes Research believes if the R&D is successful, it will lower ...
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Iconic video game company Atari has filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. in an effort to separate operations from parent company Atari SA, which is based on France and has also filed for bankruptcy. Atari, Atari Interactive and two ...
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The construction industry shed 2.2 million workers between January 2007 and last year. So now there's an overabundance of them eager for jobs, right? Wrong. Contractors are struggling with shortages of workers as the home-building market ...
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4t Networks is offering 50% off of disaster recovery setup from now until November 30th, which marks the end of the 2012 hurricane season. Use the code HURRICANE2012 when you set up your disaster recovery system to receive the discount. ...
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Companies belonging to the Swedish Karlit group filed a bankruptcy application with a court in Uppsala after restructuring attempts made in recent weeks led down a dead-end street. A court-led reorganisation (Företagsrekonstruktion) ...
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Arktos Group decided to file for bankruptcy during an extraordinary shareholders' meeting on 24 January. The lawyer Veikko Almgren was appointed to represent Arktos. Production in Kemijärvi was halted and the work force of roughly 86 ...
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The Spanish parquet manufacturer Maderas Iglesias, which had only in May 2011 successfully concluded a three-month provisional insolvency process („Preconcurso de acreedores"), was forced after all to file for bankruptcy ...
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