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Continental acquires Singapore-based mobility intelligence provider Quantum Inventions for ITS portfolio

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Continental has acquired Singapore based mobility-intelligence provider Quantum Inventions. With the closing, Continental welcomes around 120 employees working across Quantum Inventions’ three offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia; and Quantum Inventions Development Center (QIDC) in India into its fold.

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Neste to acquire Bunge Rotterdam refinery to increase raw material pretreatment capacity for renewable products

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Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials, has agreed to acquire Bunge Loders Croklaan’s refinery plant located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands for a purchase price of €258 million (US$302 million). Bunge Loders Croklaan Rotterdam refinery plant.

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ZF signs multi-year supply agreement with STMicroelectronics for silicon carbide devices for new inverters

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The technology group ZF will, from 2025, purchase silicon carbide (SiC) devices from STMicroelectronics. ST will manufacture the silicon carbide chips at its production fabs in Italy and Singapore with packaging of the chips into STPAK, an ST-developed advanced package, and testing at its back-end facilities in Morocco and China.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. It was called the ThumbDrive. Today it is familiar worldwide.

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Digital Currency and Trade Systems Are Tearing up the Rules

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A well-documented example is Singapore's Project Ubin , sponsored by the country's monetary authority and its Temasek sovereign wealth fund, which is now being deployed after five years of testing and development. It must also ensure interoperability between systems being deployed by China, Singapore, Switzerland, and other nations.

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BG Group sanctions US$15B coal seam gas to LNG project; first such

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First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 Under those agreements, CNOOC will: Purchase 3.6 Ltd (Tokyo Gas), announced in March 2010, under which Tokyo Gas will: Purchase 1.2 mtpa of LNG. Become a 2.5%

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Hyundai Motor to invest $85B over next 10 years to accelerate transition to smart mobility provider

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To maximize production efficiency at these dedicated EV factories, Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICS), which is scheduled to be operational this year, will be equipped with smart factory technology.

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