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...And when your volume is there, I’m going to build the products for you,” Yeung says. He was right....
...“Fast-growing China is a more profitable market than mature economies, and more profit means more money for R&D and keeping ahead of the competition,” he said....
...The advent of the printing press led to 150 years of religious wars before it gave us the Enlightenment....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...AstraZeneca remains a quite small company in an international context though, with future performance reliant on half a dozen drugs....
...Speaking to CNN, Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard pulled no punches: “I’m going to sue him,” he said....
...Alibaba is pouring $15bn into R&D, and many of the big tech groups are running joint innovation labs with the government....
...The stock gained 6.1 percent to HK$6.58 at 11:43 a.m. local time from the offer price of HK$6.20 for the Luohe, China-based company. The benchmark Hang Seng was little changed....
...“I’m a potter. I know when it feels right. A machine can’t help with that.” Jo Hayes Ward uses 3D printing to create the moulds for her gold jewellery....
...INTERNATIONAL TRADE Altek Europe Castle Donington, Derbyshire Website: www.altek-al.com Employees: 12 Managing director: A. M....
...“I’m seeing a much more positive attitude in the companies I’m talking to,” says Stuart Sharp, a small cap manager at Rensburg Fund Management....
...“I’m very analytical,” she told CNN....
...Here you can make a large core holding out of index tracker funds, but UK and international trackers, which will deliver diversified investments at very low cost....
...M&F Worldwide, a US holding company with operations ranging from bank cheque printing to producing liquorice for flavoured cigarettes, has made an all-cash offer for the business....
...R&D spend in the UK rose 61 per cent year on year in 2005, he said....
...A few generations ago, investments were things we could touch (and kick), like factories, equipment, or inventory. Increasingly, our investments today are knowledge-based: R&D, training, and marketing....
...If there are strong arguments for using contract manufacturers to serve local markets, I’m sure they will do it. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....
...Honeywell, the diversified manufacturer, rose 3 per cent to $36.35 after its $798m offer for Novar, the UK electrical equipment group, was approved by the company's board....
...The tools can be computer resources, advanced laboratories, specialized equipment, capital intensive facilities, etc....
...Cisco Systems is investing $32m in an R&D centre in Shanghai and Juniper Networks is opening one in Beijing....
...We are far ahead of the rest of the world in in-car equipment; we call it in-vehicle. We have a relatively strong professional equipment sector for TV stations, video conferencing equipment....
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