3M Co. has just announced plans to increase spending on research and development, product lines, and acquisitions in 2010 in an effort to emerge from the recession further ahead of weaker competitors.
3M spent approximately $1.2 billion on R&D in 2009, and plans to spend as much as $100 billion in the coming year to [...]
Filed under: News on December 29th, 2009 @ 8:24 am
Tagged with: 3M, competition, economy, innovation, R&D, research, research and development
Google revealed last week that the Federal Trade Commission was intensely securitizing its recent $750 million acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob. Google said the FTC has made a second request for further information about the deal, and just today two consumer groups – Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Digital Democracy – have asked [...]
Filed under: News on December 28th, 2009 @ 10:19 am
Tagged with: Acquisitions, Business, competition, economy, marketplace, startup
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.