Hints and tips:
...Until now, the traditional set-up has been the placing of chips side by side on a flat surface which are then connected with wiring and fuses....
...When I spoke to Riswold the day after the Times ad ran, its promise as a metaphorical device for my story was never far from my mind....
...Cooper’s preferred stocks include Wuxi Lead Intelligence, a leader in battery-making equipment, Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls, which makes battery heat management systems, and Analog Devices, a manufacturer...
...Since its public launch, the company has grown its client base to almost 400 and expanded to roughly 14 different countries, according to chief communications officer Charley Cooper....
...And its technology platform Aladdin provides essential wiring for swaths of the global investment industry....
...US television networks will trot out their biggest stars, from CNN’s Anderson Cooper to the cast of NBC’s hit drama This Is Us, at glitzy events this week in prime New York venues including Carnegie Hall...
...The Silicon Valley-based tech company Nest Labs, owned by Alphabet Inc, has even managed to make thermostats seem stylish....
...Given the number of rival services, consolidation is inevitable among the smaller players, says Mr Cooper....
...Not so long ago, this cost a lot more and required specialist wiring. Sonos sells more than just the speakers....
...But Mr Cooper suggests that they could be “hoarding” it to stop competitors from entering the market....
...While the tech industry has embraced Moore’s law, producing smaller devices that do more, telecoms companies are engaged in an arms race for airwaves....
...Simon Cooper, a partner at The Chemistry Group, an HR consultancy, says he sees this problem often....
...“The industry is moving from just one device – the desktop – and into multiple devices,” says Rashid Mansoor, co-founder of mobile-based advertising start-up AdBrain....
...acquisition of the three-year-old start-up, for a reported $200m, represents another bid by a leading technology company to persuade more consumers that the benefits in convenience or energy-saving of wiring...
...As a fan of old Hollywood westerns, my first inclination was to behave as if I were Gary Cooper in High Noon and show those North Koreans exactly who they were dealing with in these parts....
...Others to have struck similar deals this year include Medtronic, the US medical device maker, which agreed last month to buy Dublin-based Covidien for $42.9bn....
...Shares in medical device maker Cooper rose 8 per cent to $146.68 on news it would buy Sauflon Pharmacueticals, a contact lens maker. The purchase price was set at $1.2bn....
...The first call was made by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper to his rival at Bell Labs to crow about beating him to the invention....
...The FAA stopped short of that, telling operators only to inspect the devices....
...India’s Apollo Tyre made a bold strategic move with a $2.5bn offer for the larger Cooper Tire of the US, but the market reacted badly to the 40 per cent premium it was prepared to pay....
...Workers installing wiring, pipes and other small parts now receive individual, tailored component kits just as the relevant car body arrives, providing far more flexibility to vary output....
...The company could set a 2013 launch date for a cheaper version of the device, which could use a lower-cost plastic shell or recycle older iPhone components (Wall Street Journal)....
...Dollar General shares rose 0.4 per cent to $49.51 as the discount store is set to be added to the S&P 500 index on Friday, replacing Cooper Industries, which is being acquired by Eaton Corp....
...At least his wife Karin knew how to deal with the wayward device: with a hammer....
...“Anybody that makes an electronic device is likely to have our components in it,” said Mr Keen....
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