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Volkswagen bringing new board member for Integrity and Legal Affairs over from Daimler

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Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, currently Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG for Integrity and Legal Affairs, will move to Volkswagen AG in 2016 as Board Member for Integrity and Legal Affairs. She will join the Volkswagen Group as of 1 January 2016 as the Board Member for Integrity and Legal Affairs.

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Energy Conversion Devices files Chapter 11, seeks sale of businesses; Ovonic Battery Company sold to BASF Corporation

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OBC), to BASF Corporation for the gross purchase price of $58 million in cash before transaction fees, minority participations, and working capital and other adjustments. USO is a global leader in manufacturing flexible, lightweight thin-film photovoltaic products for use in the commercial rooftop and building-integrated markets.

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Toshiba Splits in Three

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Last Friday, Toshiba announced "a bold and ambitious plan to separate into three standalone companies," an unprecedented move by a large Japanese corporation, let alone one with such a storied history as Toshiba, established in 1875. A second entity will comprise electronic devices and the memory storage business under the name Device Co.

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National Academies’ Gulf Research Program awards $10.8M to address systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations

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Oklahoma State University. Louisiana State University. University of Houston. Uncontrolled riser gas build-up and release was a major component of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Louisiana State University. University of Mississippi. Florida Maxima Corporation. Lead Organization. Description.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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In the winter of 1973, corporate managers summoned Whittingham to the company’s New York City offices to appear before a subcommittee of the Exxon board. “I Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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When you encourage people to spread falsities to get advertising and make money, then this thing kind of builds on itself. Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. The tokens, along with using smart contracts to reduce legal fees, would make real-time exchange and monetization feasible, he says. Employer: Mimik.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The logical place to build a small computer was inside IBM's General Products Division, which focused on minicomputers and the successful typewriter business. The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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