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By Nick Carey CHICAGO (Reuters) – Metals company Alcoa Inc said on Thursday it is supplying aerospace-grade aluminium to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for its Galaxy S6 and S6 edge models, enabling the smartphone maker to produce more durable and sleeker phones. Phones made with 6013 Alcoa Power Plate, which is 70 percent stronger than standard aluminium are available now globally, Alcoa said. This latest announcement fits New York-based Alcoa’s
By Tova Cohen TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s Arab minority is seeking its share of high-tech success in a “start-up nation”, a quest that has already turned Jesus’s boyhood town of Nazareth into an incubator for innovation. Over the past decade about 7,000 tech companies have been founded in Israel, where high-tech goods and services account for 12.5 percent of gross domestic product. Only 30 Arab-led tech firms, however, the
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s struggling electronics maker Sharp Corp is set to post a net loss of 180 billion yen ($1.45 billion) in the current year through next March, Kyodo News reported on Thursday, without citing sources. Sharp last month secured a $1.9 billion bailout, its second major bank-led rescue in three years, and reported a net loss of 222 billion yen in the last fiscal year, its third net
(Reuters) – Dish Network Corp and T-Mobile US Inc are discussing a deal to combine the second-largest satellite TV operator in the United States with the fourth-largest wireless carrier, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Dish and T-Mobile US shares were up 5.6 percent and 4.8 percent respectively in morning trading on Thursday, whilst those of T-Mobile’s majority owner Deutsche Telekom were up 2.9 percent. A deal,
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John Paulson’s $400 million donation to Harvard and Germany’s 10-year bond yield stoking 1% temper tantrums.
T. Boone Pickens says Saudi production is topping out at about 10 million barrels per day and oil prices will return to $70 per barrel by year end.
A co-owner of the Four Seasons is charged with sexually abusing an acquaintance during a party at the famed New York City restaurant. Julian Niccolini was arraigned Wednesday night. As he left Manhattan …
Last year, Costco Wholesale moved almost 400,000 vehicles of all major brands in the U.S., twice as many as in 2008. Costco is tapping America’s growing wariness with car dealers. Costco doesn’t sell cars per se.
Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, a sign that job cuts remain low as employers are confident enough in the business outlook to hold onto their staffs.
