Hints and tips:
...A number of Hong Kong-listed companies are switching back from virtual to real press conferences for the annual earnings season, which will get into full swing this month....
...Last year, US news agency Associated Press surprised the industry when it announced that all of its photographers and videographers would change to the Sony Alpha system....
...It is in the process of changing the entity’s name to 27Health Inc, subject to approval from US regulators....
...He says at first Google tried to be “ultra sophisticated”, launching an effort in the US to transform electronic medical records in 2008, and then it experimented with “very bold” and “very Googly” projects...
...fridge technology at its press conference that will keep your tomatoes firm and cabbage fresh....
...At the time of writing for instance, its Wiki entry on tag fraud was last updated in 2014 so will need some attention, because: G4S has agreed to pay a £44m fine over its contract for electronic tagging...
...In 2009, the consumer electronics retailer Radio Shack changed its name to The Shack in a move to modernise its image....
...Apple on Monday added a new claim to the blurb that appears at the foot of its press releases: “Apple leads the world in innovation”....
...The biggest US exchange also suffered a glitch in 2012, but that only led to trading in 216 companies’ stocks being suspended for most of the trading day....
...The February 18th press release announcing the deal said shares equivalent to 5 per cent of Quindell’s share capital would be issued in the following seven days....
...Apple will in a few months launch the streaming service it has been reconfiguring since it acquired Beats Electronics last year from Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine for $3bn....
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...For fun, here was the calculation Leslie and I did that got us to a $4.2bn transaction value, which eventually matched the revised value cited by Tibco (by dumb luck, or not)....
...Apple has not made many big acquisitions over the years, but with more than $150bn of cash on its books the tech group could presumably pay for its largest – the imminent $3.2bn purchase of Beats Electronics...
...As well as receiving stellar reviews by gaming industry press, GTA V has been hailed by cultural commentators as the latest example of how electronic entertainment can match or even better movies in artistic...
...The US federal court for northern California is housed in a huge 1950s modernist office block in the centre of San Francisco....
...Samsung has been at the International Consumer Electronics Show in force this week, but despite its massive booth, 64th-floor parties and flashy press conference, perhaps its most interesting event happened...
...London and New York, NY – MarkitSERV, a leading electronic trade processing platform for OTC derivative transactions, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Logicscope Limited, a leading provider...
...The agency charged that Pipeline “misleadingly” implied that rising trading volume was due to the increasing number of “natural” trades executed on its system through a series of press releases from 2008...
...Given Judge Rakoff’s termination of the SEC-Citi settlement earlier this week, it’s been a bad week for those wanting to see the back of financial crisis disputes but, ultimately, a good week for the US...
...Anonymous has received nowhere near the press coverage for its Middle East activities as it has for its web attacks....
...Finally, Bluetooth chip specialist CSR has revised the terms of its deeply unpopular merger with Zoran, a US imaging and video technology group. It’s now proposing to pay $484m in cash and stock....
...The MusicUnlimited service was announced at IFA, a major consumer electronics show in Berlin, barely an hour before Apple’s own music-themed press conference in California....
...It was the first time they’d opened the event up to the press. And a good thing too....
...The region’s electronic trading systems capture 20 per cent of trading volume in Japanese and European equities – still quite far behind the US, where institutions execute 35 per cent of domestic equity...
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