Industrial conglomerate United Technologies flirted with all-time highs on Wednesday after posting strong earnings and announcing sales would hit the top end of its guidance by the end of the year.
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While GE is known for its jet engines and other industrial machines, different technologies such as Internet services and software are an increasingly important sector for the company.
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Our technologies and services include: surface and subsea drilling and production, monitoring and diagnostics, measurement and controls, large-scale LNG, pipeline compression and inspection, well site and industrial power generation, technologies for the refining and petrochemical industries, and modular CNG and LNG units for transportation sectors.
So does Gale, even though it has only one such potential customer, United Technologies, the industrial conglomerate.
United Technologies is a diversified industrial blue-chip with a legacy of above-average growth and a shareholder-friendly management team and board.
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For instance, which technologies will shape this new industrial revolution, and what is their economic attractiveness?
It is envisaged that SMEs would serve as the vehicle for harnessing existing technologies and using them to enhance industrial production and commerce.
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Metal-forming technologies are used to shape hard industrial metals like steel, iron and aluminum into the components that are needed to make everything from computers and iPads to cars and trucks.
It represents the pinnacle of Focusrite's analogue audio circuit design coupled with the latest in digital conversion technologies, alongside stunning, no-compromise industrial design and professional practicality.
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Each member has a strong commitment in investing in future technologies and working collaboratively by combining the best of industrial research with the deep knowledge of the energy and utilities industry that drive innovation across the market.
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But it has only been in the past two years or so that the combination of computing and networking technologies became inexpensive enough to be cost-effective on industrial sewing machines.
Will President Bush allow pandering for campaign contributions from such exporters to trump his counter-proliferation agenda and, by so doing, give every other industrial nation political cover to continue their lucrative transfers of potentially deadly technologies?
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Metal-forming technologies, and the machine tool industry, continue to be the industrial backbone for any industrial economy.
And yet, most governments cling stubbornly to national industrial policies that offer perverse incentives for local firms to squander resources on parochial technologies and outmoded business models.
What we can be sure is that the growth of sophisticated financial systems will continue to play an important role in fashioning the changes in all of our lives, including funding (often speculatively) the technologies that have transformed our world already from an agricultural to an industrial economy, and are now perhaps shaping the first post-industrial information economy.
In this transaction we will acquire rights to the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, a highly talented and expert team, Lucasfilm's best-in-class post production businesses, Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound, and a suite of cutting edge entertainment technologies.
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Here, in an industrial part of Moscow amid mass-produced colorless communist constructions, the focus is on technologies that can do rather than change.
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In his 1997 study of disruptive versus sustaining technologies, Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School pointed to the dilemma that all industrial leaders face.
"These headphones are enhanced by several audio technologies developed by HARMAN yet also reflect the brand's commitment to innovative industrial design, " said Dinesh Paliwal, Chairman, President and CEO of HARMAN.
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Critics argue that, while it is true some of the high performance technologies essential to advanced fighter aircraft would not directly translate, the skills and industrial capabilities required to produce such specialized systems, however, could have considerable applicability to civil aircraft production.
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The new ruling, passed June 3, gives Brazilian government owned power company Eletrobras (EBR), along with national and international equipment partners, the ability to buy capital goods, building materials, infrastructure materials and nuclear industry specific technologies for use in energy generation without having to pay the IPI, or industrial production tax, nor tariffs on imported goods.
More significantly, since 2009 around 600 state industrial firms with around 900, 000 employees have been transferred to a restructuring agency, Russian Technologies (RT).
Although primarily produced for industrial use, the water is purified to drinking-quality using dual membrane microfiltration and reverse osmosis technologies, and marketed as bottled water for human consumption under the consumer brand NEWater.
One of the key businesses of United Technologies is also in the area of climate control systems and services for multifamily, commercial and industrial facilities.
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Indeed, the Industrial Revolution itself (since 1750) entails the near-incessant introduction of new machines, factories, technologies, energies and transportation-communication systems all of which saved physical labor and made skilled labor more productive (thus better paid), and coincided with massive growth in all kinds of jobs, including in services, intellectual fields and in the invention, design and creation of new technologies.
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Peter Diamandis believes that Silicon Valley technologies will continue a path of billion dollar valuations overnight while traditional multinational corporations, relics of the industrial age, will continue to go out of business over the next 2-10 years.
Russian Technologies State Corporation was set up to assist in the development, production and export of high-tech industrial products.
Treybig, Heller and Maples all had a hand in building Smart Technologies, an Austin company that wants to be to Internet software what German software giant SAP is to industrial automation.
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