Sharp Corp. is considering selling a Polish factory where it has been assembling liquid crystal display televisions for the European market as part of turnaround efforts, Kyodo News reported Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter. ...
Tags: liquid crystal display, Sharp, liquid crystal display televisions
Allianz Life Luxembourg has selected Solfia’s Software as a Service (SaaS) platform as its new middle-office platform, with a strategy to manage the internal funds of its life insurance contracts. The life insurer is planning to go ...
Despite much talk during the preceding 12 months about the pivotal role that technology is expected to play in boosting the UK's ailing economy, there was precious little in today's Budget to add flesh to the bones. There is to be an ...
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Gardner Denver, Inc. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, “KKR”) today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 ...
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Asia's phenomenal growth can be the saviour of Australian manufacturing, says Minister for Trade Dr Craig Emerson. Though Australia has become “weighed down” by the high dollar, there are still many opportunities for ...
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Barclays Corporate & Employer Solutions (C&ES) division has joined hands with Aegon and Zurich to offer a corporate pension platform, as part of its C&ES workplace savings offering. Aegon and Zurich will support the pension element of the ...
Electoral candidates in western Sydney and Newcastle face some stark policy choices about transport infrastructure that will have profound economic and social implications well into next century. Unusual in federal politics, the opportunity ...
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Indian automobile manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is planning to invest about KRW80bn ($74m) in its South Korean subsidiary SsangYong Motor (SMC) to secure investment funds. SsangYong Motor has approved a third party allotment to ...
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The Optogan group of companies is a vertically integrated producer of High Brightness LEDs based in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The group is also active in Finland and Germany. Founded in 2004 by 3 graduates of Ioffe ...
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The Jamaican government has announced the discovery of an abundance of rare earth minerals in its soil by a team of Japanese scientists. AP reports that Philip Paulwell, Minister of Science, Technology, Energy & Mining, has informed ...
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Investment supports growth to meet current customer demand and market expansion. PeakColo, a leading provider of enterprise-class Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions, announced today that it has raised $7.5 million in growth equity ...
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Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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The Austrian company IFN-Holding intends to invest roughly €40m in 2012 in new technologies, products and the expansion of its business locations. Most of that amount, at roughly €30m, will go to the expansion of window production ...
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Saudi Blominvest, a part of Lebanese banking group Blom, has signed up leading developer Maskan Arabia for the construction of the first three phases of its upcoming SAR 475 million residential project in Riyadh. These phases include ...
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Taipei,Oct.8,2012(CENS)--Offshore mutual funds in the U.S.sold by domestic financial institutions will be subject to 30%tax levied by the U.S.government,should they fail to sign related agreement with the U.S.according to a Foreign Account ...
Tags: Taipei, the Securities Investment Trust and Consulting Association