This week, Samsung Electronics also bought a 5% stake in Japanese stylus maker Wacom Co.
Surrounded by corn, soybean and dairy farms, Athens is about 12 miles from Battle Creek, home to cereal maker Kellogg Co.
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Ian Reynolds, Abertay graduate and co-founder game maker of Quartic Llama, has been working to programme the LEDs needed for the display.
Initially enthusiastic about Chinese electric car maker BYD Co.
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The city government of Xinyu has helped keep U.S.-listed solar panel-maker LDK Solar Co.
Henrik Fisker, the co-founder of EV maker Fisker Automotive, has resigned his post as executive chairman.
He notes that smaller players like telecom-equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. are growing, albeit at a small scale.
Melis Birder, a Turkish film-maker who is co-producing a documentary on the team, believes its success can shatter prejudices against Kurds.
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McMillan ultimately partnered with Maine-based mens' shoe maker Rancourt and Co.
Within weeks, Ms. Kiplinger and her partner had a pitch for a longtime client, Dum Dum Pops maker Spangler Candy Co. of Bryan, Ohio.
"Even now we cannot breathe" with the dollar around 800 kyat, says Khine Khine Nwe, deputy managing director of garment maker Best Industrial Co.
When Marlion Holdings, owned by a Chinese investor group, acquired golf club maker Honma Golf Co. in June, this transaction barely raised a blip on the Finance Ministry radar.
In the 1960s, a monster-merchandise maker called Captain Co. sold a version, called the Monster Inside the Black Box, in magazines including Creepy, Eerie and Famous Monsters of Filmland.
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Kiddie video maker Baby Einstein Co. believes it can develop the brains of babies as young as a few weeks old by having images of toys or animals move across the screen while classical music plays in the background.
Woodside, a nine-year Google veteran who was tapped as CEO of Motorola Mobility, started his remarks with a veiled jibe at Apple, which recently won a patent dispute with rival device maker Samsung Electronics Co. over its iPhone designs.
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The shift has weakened long-time stalwarts such as Dell, fellow PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co.
Scott Jensen, chief executive and co-founder of kale chip maker, Rhythm Superfoods LLC, says that he "had concerns about sharing our information" on CircleUp.com.
There was a bit of good news for Navistar Wednesday, however: its joint venture with Chinese truck maker Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co. has been approved by the Chinese government.
He gets a new wardrobe every three years from work-wear maker Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Co.
She and her co-founders at Maykah (the maker of Roominate dollhouses with working circuits) wish they saw more women in their upper level math and science classes.
Like the best products, this lovely chart of the elements grew out of the passionate interest of its creator, Theodore Gray, one of the co-founders of Wolfram Research, maker of Mathematica software.
That same month pharmaceutical maker Merck KGaA of Germany agreed to co-develop with Chi-Med anticancer drugs derived from natural products.
"With any new technology there are new ways for people to engage in fraud, " said Kevin Mahaffey, co-founder of mobile-security-software maker Lookout Inc.
In attempting its current restructuring, Acer faces a formidable Asian rival in China's Lenovo Group, which ranks a close second behind Hewlett-Packard Co. as the world's biggest PC maker.
Managing director and Belu co-founder Reed Paget, a former documentary maker, told CNN the idea behind the business was to use water to create water in areas where it was not widely available.
It's now the second-largest maker of phones overall, behind Samsung Electronics Co.
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