Sapphire glass and ramped up production lines were just a few signs that Apple is moving toward the rumored iWatch. However, its latest move may be the most obvious. The company has registered a comprehensive high-tech watch patent.
Chinese meat supplier Shanghai Husi Food Co., which delivers food products to chain restaurants throughout the country, allegedly provided some fast food outlets with expired goods – including chicken and beef.
“Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella kicked off one of the largest layoffs in tech history on Thursday [July 17], hoping to reshape the aging PC industry titan into a nimbler rival to Apple and Google, and jolt a culture at the company that is used to protecting its existing Windows and Office franchises,” according…
Seven percent of South Africa’s economy will soon stall along with the temporary closing of the country’s Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. production plants. The halt in manufacturing is due to a now three-week metalworkers strike that began in early July.
The Irish Dairy Board (IDB), an organization responsible for supplying and distributing 60 percent of Ireland’s dairy products, hopes to strengthen its current reach to more than 100 countries with its recent launch of a Wisconsin, U.S. cheese plant.
Apple has started receiving its first round of microprocessors via its latest partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). The parts signify not only a ramp up of production on Apple products, such as smartphones, that use these processors, but also the significant end to the company’s supplier relationship with Samsung.
According to Reuters, “Bandits attacked a Samsung Electronics Co Ltd factory near Sao Paulo late Sunday and held workers hostage while they robbed truckloads of smartphones, tablets and notebook computers.”
Premiere Inc., a major U.S. healthcare supplier, is extending reach. This company announced that it now has an increased capital borrowing limit, as well. Premiere Inc. secured $750.0 million in funds that the company plans to use to help further expand its business.
“Australia posted its biggest trade deficit in almost a year-and-a-half, as weaker iron-ore prices and a stronger Australian dollar weighed on the resource-rich nation’s export earnings. The deficit widened to 1.91 billion Australian dollars (US$1.8 billion) in May from a revised A$780 million the previous month, according to the country’s statistics bureau,” The Wall Street…
The manufacturing industry is slowly rising around the much acclaimed Internet of Things (IoT). So much so, in fact, that MongoDB plans to build a hefty database to support it.