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A developer of batteries for hybrid electric vehicles, A123Systems, received an additional $30 million cash infusion from a number of investors including General Electric Co., Qualcomm Inc. and Motorola. This is the third round of financing for...
India's new oil minister reiterated New Delhi's commitment to a multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline from Iran and said talks with Pakistan on the project would resume next week. "We are committed to making the project happen as we need the...
U.S. President George W. Bush's State of the Union speech commitments to making the R&D tax credit permanent, boosting federal R&D funding and improving math and science education are drawing applause from John Engler, president of the...
Italian energy giant ENI said it expected supplies of gas from Russia to return to normal on Jan. 30 after nearly two weeks of shortfalls which have forced Italy to dip into its gas stocks. ENI said in a statement that it expected all 74 million...
The world's biggest energy group, ExxonMobil Corp., said Jan. 30 it reaped record profits of $36.1 billion in 2005 due to sky-high oil and gas prices. Annual profit increase 43% from 2004, while in the last three months of 2005 its earnings surged...
Jim Womack, president of Brookline, Mass.-based Lean Enterprise Institute, wants to set the record straight about a recent Wall Street Journal report that stated, "Just-In-Time Inventories Make U.S. Vulnerable to a Pandemic." ...
Malaysia said Jan. 26 it aims to become the world's top producer of biodiesel amid an aggressive expansion in its palm oil production as demand soars for the alternative fuel...
