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...In short, BOE is now threatening Samsung’s position at the high end of the global display market because Korea Inc did so much to help the Chinese company get off the ground in the first place....
...Dow and DuPont merged in 2017 and then split the combined entity into three in 2019....
...She will join on February 1 after spending 20 years at The Economist, where she was most recently technology and business editor. McDermott Will & Emery has promoted 41 lawyers to partner....
...Marc Doyle, chief executive of LSI and a former DuPont executive, said: “There is more awareness and sensitisation to the need for cleanliness....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 5 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...The merger announced on Sunday reflects attempts across the food technology sector to follow consumers as they try out products they perceive to be more healthful, have fresher ingredients or leave a smaller...
...Critics of his $97bn Vision Fund and its subsequent technology spending spree were supposed to be silenced by the conviction of public markets....
...But competitors like Axalta, which was spun out of Dupont, have been encroaching on PPG’s mainstay of automotive coatings, according to analysts....
...DuPont Fabros shares jumped 14.5 per cent in pre-market trading, while Digital Realty gained 1.1 per cent....
...In 2013 it bought Axalta from Dupont for $4.9bn. Following the acquisition, the Washington-based group installed a new management team and cut costs. A year later it took Axalta public....
...China’s troubles with Donald Trump could be an opportunity for Japan Inc....
...Before joining Bain in 1988, Mr Maceda worked with DuPont, the US chemicals group, in its engineering plastics group....
...“We are experts at liquid coatings technology. They [Akzo Nobel] have a very strong powder coatings technology — they are the leader in that space,” Mr McGarry told the FT in an interview last week....
...Martin Arnold in London The Snap IPO Technology investors’ eyes will be firmly on whether Snap Inc can snap, crackle and pop on its stock market debut, expected as early as March 2017....
...The company made its largest ever acquisition in August, buying Otto, a start-up working on technology for self-driving trucks....
...Nanoco has made a significant commercial breakthrough with its quantum-dot technology for displays, signing up Merck as a second multinational partner....
...She said that it was no longer enough to be a “technology supermarket” and that focus and speed were the buzzwords....
...Technology stocks led the benchmark index lower with the S&P 500 information technology index declining 1.3 per cent....
...In the US, DuPont and Dow Chemical, either of which might in the past have led the flock, are merging in order to split, ultimately, into three separate manufacturers....
...The third example is Dow Chemical’s proposed merger with DuPont. Like Yahoo, both companies face pressure from activists....
...The technology sector was a the biggest laggard, with stocks like Apple and Hewlett Packard Enterprises facing declines....
...The S&P 500 materials sector — which includes copper miner Freeport-McMoRan, aluminium producer Alcoa, gold producer Newmont Mining and chemicals companies such as DuPont and Dow Chemical — advanced 13.45...
...Examples included condiment maker Heinz’s cash-and-stock takeover of food group Kraft and the recent all-share merger between chemicals heavyweights Dupont and Dow Chemical....
...Arthur Little, who founded Arthur D Little, one of the first strategy consulting firms, in 1909, was a chemist who taught papermaking at Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.4 per cent to 2,091.54, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.4 per cent to 17,477.40, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.3 per cent to 5,048.23....
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