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Neptune, Aker end patent struggles with licensure agreement

2013-12-18 15:00:41| Biotech - Topix.net

Some things have seemed immutable: Death. Taxes. The Krill Wars. But the latter has fallen off that list with the announcement this morning that fierce competitors Neptune Technologies & Bioressources and Aker BioMarine have reached an 11th-hour settlement of their longstanding patent dispute.

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Apple supplier Foxconn still struggles to limit working hours, labor group says

2013-12-13 20:01:29| InfoWorld: Top News

Foxconn Technology Group has come up short in trying to limit the overtime hours of its workers in China but still made progress in improving the working conditions at three of its factories that make products for Apple, a labor group said Thursday.

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Struggles of younger U.S. workers ripple through economy

2013-11-28 17:44:01| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

She became one more data point contributing to the nation's stunted rate of household formation.

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Patchy aid reaches typhoon survivors as Philippines struggles rebuild

2013-11-16 03:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Survivors began rebuilding homes destroyed by one of the world's most powerful typhoons and emergency supplies flowed into ravaged Philippine islands, as the United Nations more than doubled its estimate of people made homeless to nearly two million. But the aid effort was still patchy, and bodies still lay uncollected as rescuers tried to evacuate stricken communities on Saturday, more than a week after Typhoon Haiyan killed at least 3,633 with tree-snapping winds and tsunami-like waves. "We...

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