Tyres and car components group Continental AG is sticking to its earnings guidance for the time being despite weakening automotive markets, finance chief Alan Hippe told a conference call on Wednesday. "The environment is more...

Dollar Tree Inc. Wednesday reported second-quarter net income of $37.6 million, or 42 cents a share, while sales rose to $1.09 billion. Same-store sales were up 6.5% in the quarter. The mean estimate of analysts polled by Thomson...

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEH) is up almost 6% in a financial stock rally that is helping it blow past a Morgan Stanley analyst's warning of Q3 pre-tax write-downs of $3.5 billion. Morgan analyst Patrick Pinschmidt also said Goldman...

Dillard's Inc. (DDS) is up 2.6% to $11.67 despite reporting a wider loss in its second quarter compared with last year. Shares are near the high-end of today's trading range of $11.07 - $11.85. The department store chain said it lost...

The head of a Tennessee company that owns 113 Waffle House restaurants in four states says an inquiry is under way into his chief accountant's departure. The company, SouthEast Waffles, a Waffle House franchisee, filed for Chapter 11...

Swiss recruitment agency Adecco has been set a deadline of 1600 GMT on Sept. 30 to decide whether to make a formal offer for British rival Michael Page . Under a ruling by the UK Takeover Panel on Wednesday, Adecco must announce either...

IKON Office Solutions Inc. (IKN) is rallying 10% to $17.10, a new 52-week high. Ricoh Co. of Japan has agreed to buy the seller and lessee of copiers, printers and other office machines for $1.62 billion. The cash offer of...

Brilliance Auto, Bayerische Motoren Werke's partner in China, has been approached about a possible takeover but has not discussed a merger with larger rival FAW Group, as reported in domestic media, its chairman said on Wednesday....

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Fluidigm Corporation, the inventor of integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs), today announced that LGC, an international leader in laboratory services and measurement standards, has purchased a BioMark(TM) System for genetic...

DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing unit of Royal DSM N.V., today announces that it has acquired an equity stake of 29.3% in Provexis plc, an AIM listed company that develops and licenses ingredients for the functional food, medical food...

Roche NimbleGen has launched the NimbleGen Gene Expression 12x135K Microarray, a new multiplex gene expression array on their recently introduced HD2 platform. The 12-plex format offers a cost-effective, high-throughput...

New technologies will force fundamental change in the way healthcare systems operate. Low-cost gene sequencing and biopharmaceuticals will make personalized medicine a reality -- tailoring the treatment to the patient. The...

Ascom Wireless Solutions (WS) and Ekahau Inc. announce their collaboration on a new WiFi positioning solution. Ekahau's location-based services (Ekahau RTLS) combined with the Ascom i75, a high-end VoWiFi handset from Ascom WS, create a reliable...

AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday, August 27, 2008 SYDNEY, Aug 27 /AsiaNet/ -- LIGHTING SOLUTIONS... HONG KONG - Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc., announced that it...

SS&C Technologies, Inc. (www.ssctech.com), a global provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, today announced that Portfolio Management Institute has selected SS&C's Zoologic Learning...

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/787304/innovative_solar_p) has announced the addition of the "Innovative Solar Power Initiatives and Business Models" report to their offering. The 1st Edition of the...