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...Participating distributors would get 20 per cent of the $50-per-view proceeds, while consumers would get two free tickets to see a movie at a cinema of their choice....
...Nippon Sheet Glass, the company that bought UK-based glassmaker Pilkington in 2006, suffered a 23 per cent fall in its shares as they became some of the most heavily traded in Tokyo....
...VAs, which tend to be sold through financial advisers, are expected to be hit by proposals from the US Labor Department to tighten standards for distributors....
...Also: AR v VR Do you like your reality augmented or completely virtual? Augmented reality has seen little progress with no sign yet of Google bringing out the next generation of Google Glass....
...The net neutrality debate has taken on a David v Goliath flavour....
...To counter a backlash against its digitally-enabled headsets, Google Glass has published tips on how not to be a “glasshole”, a derogatory term coined for Glass users who invade others’ privacy or lurk cyborg-like...
...The panel held that BurnLounge’s scheme satisfied both prongs of the Webster v....
...Sitting in his glass-walled office, the chief executive of PCH International laughs off the sobriquet given to him by the journalist James Fallows in The Atlantic magazine....
...This kind of cultural engineering has been tried less successfully in other situations though, such as Nippon Sheet Glass’s takeover of Pilkington, where two western chief executives in succession resigned...
...Samsung now has more than 1,000 designers in Seoul, London, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo and Delhi, according to Dennis Miloseski, Samsung’s design studio head in North America....
...CA Inc climbed 9.6 per cent to $25.02 as the software developer easily beat analyst expectations....
...Three years ago, the Commission imposed fines totalling €1.4bn ($1.9bn) on Asahi, Pilkington, Saint-Gobain and Soliver, windscreen glass suppliers, for illegal market sharing and exchanging commercially...
...Emhart Glass Maufacturing’s customers include many of the leading brewers and soft drink distributors....
...manufacturer Pilkington....
...It also exports to Europe, Australia, China, South East Asia, North and South America and South Africa....
...I have been trying to resolve my internal Mac v PC battle....
...– New York Magazine Lehman Brothers’ golden girl, Erin Callan: through the glass ceiling – and off the glass cliff – Guardian UK...
...In his office in the sleek glass and steel 311-m Kingdom Tower, he flaunts the fact that women work alongside men without wearing the obligatory black cloak or abaya....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...The design includes a tulip motif and can be made in a variety of woods, with glass, metal and tile details....
...Negotiations between distributors such as cable operators and television station owners are governed by the 1992 Cable Act that gives broadcasters the right to withhold its signal from rebroadcasts on cable...
...Nippon Sheet Glass has appointed Stuart Chambers of Pilkington, the UK company it bought in 2006, as chief executive....
...Nippon Sheet Glass, which last year bought its UK rival Pilkington, jumped 6.9 per cent to Y450 on news former Pilkington executive Stuart Chambers is to be its new president and chief executive....
...Guardian Industries, a privately owned US group, faces the biggest single penalty of €148m, followed by Britain’s Pilkington, which receives a €140m fine....
...The deal helps Pernod increase its share of the US spirits market to nearly 14 per cent from 8.6 per cent because the bulk of Absolut’s sales are in North America, although the French company still trails...
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