The value of his gaming-machine maker has more than quadrupled in the past 12 months.
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The credit card payment machine maker's overall revenue was helped by a 19% rise in its systems solutions group.
In 1998, it began to partner with Keurig, a single-cup coffee brewing machine maker to manufacture and sell the K-cups, and bought the whole company in 2006.
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Two years ago, Haier took over Hongxing, a washing-machine maker.
It wasn't anybody's idea of a dream job when John Nils Hanson, a 59-year-old nuclear engineer from MIT, was named chief executive of Milwaukee-based Harnischfeger, by far the world's largest mining-machine maker.
It wasn't anybody's idea of a dream job when John Nils Hanson, a 59-year-old nuclear engineer from MIT, was named the CEO of Harnischfeger, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by far the world's largest mining-machine maker.
The open-source machine-maker has made Ubuntu PCs before, like the Gazelle and Serval laptops and the recent Sable Complete all-in-one, but none come close to the Bonobo Extreme in terms of speed and performance.
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The washing machine and refrigerator maker is hardly alone in enjoying the fruits of a U.S. housing recovery.
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Enter Compaq Computer, then a small Texas maker of sewing- machine-size portable computers.
The machine itself is a standard coffee maker manufactured by Jura.
The consumer division of Compaq, the world's leading computer maker, is also working on a desktop machine that folds up "like a book, " keyboard and all, when out of use, says Franklin Sze, senior product marketing manager for Compaq's greater China division.
This is true buying a PC in an electronics store, a washing machine in a white goods store and even was true buying an espresso maker being flogged off cheap in a supermarket.
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Vending machine manufacturer Crane Merchandising Systems is working on its own monitoring hardware, as is Mars Electronics, maker of dollar-bill changers.
Less than two months after Starbucks released its single-serve espresso maker, the Verismo, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has answered back, revealing its Rivo machine to the world yesterday.
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