Tag Archives: Manufactures

Guns, Rods … And Titanium

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To call Dave Lamoureux a fishing enthusiast would be an understatement. He set a new record, catching a 157-pound Bluefin tuna from his kayak off the coast of Cape Cod in 2009. A former Wall Street...
    






OLPC Still Focused On Bringing Tech "Dreams" To Needy Kids

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Wearables and 4K TVs weren’t the only shiny and new objects introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. One Laptop Per Child, launched in 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte out of MIT’s Media Lab...
    






Swatch Group Sales Hit New Record For 2013

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Swatch Group Ltd., the largest Swiss watch business, reports record sales for 2013 and a strong start for 2014. The company on Friday said year-over-year gross sales for 2013 increased 8.3 percent to...
    






Samsung launches a family of tablets at CES 2014

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Samsung has already succeeded in trumping Apple, at least in the smartphone category. But as far as tablets are concerned, the Cupertino-based technology lion is still the king, with 29.6 percent...
    






The Fashionable Pebble Steel Smartwatch Is What The Wearables Movement Needs

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Pebble has been in an interesting situation. The start-up that has won over many users with their smartwatch (the self-titled Pebble), like all good rock stars, has to deal with the difficult second...
    






Demand For Larger Screen Size To Drive Corning’s Display Technology Business In 2014

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Corning’s revenues from its display business are expected to increase in the coming year driven by growing demand for larger displays in TVs, mobile devices and tablets. Revenues from its display...
    






If Everyone Is Buying Chromebooks, Who Is Using Them?

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The rise of the Chromebook has Microsoft worried, as Forbes’ Jason Evangelho explains. A recent study by the NPD Group says that the Chromebook platform has reached 9.6% share in North American...
    






Plus Size Barbie Being Taken into Consideration

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We all know that the unrealistic measurements of Barbie dolls don’t apply in real life. Whereas the waist measurement of the average American woman is 37.5 inches, if the doll were to come to life it...
    






China Chips Away At Taiwan’s Prized Tablet PC Industry

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This threat to the Taiwanese economy, which depends on grabbing sizable shares of new IT hardware trends, has already hit contracts for lower-end tablets and begun taking aim at the premium ones,...
    






The Best And Worst Sports Stocks Of 2013

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The stock market has been on a tear this year with the S&P 500 up 27%, fueled in part by the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies. It would mark the best performance since 2007 if the gains...