European regulators are investigating whether airlines are being forced to enter anti-competitive contracts to keep their 24,000 aircraft flying, as equipment makers seek a slice of the $60bn a year maintenance and repair market. The European Commission has written to airlines and aircraft component manufacturers, asking for information about the provisions being written into service…
The FBI is opening a new biometrics research center as the technology continues to take off among both government and the private sector. Outlining the development in a new report, market research firm TechNavio explains that the FBI Clarksburg campus’ new Biometrics Technology Center will “serve to cement biometrics as an integral part of our modern…
Cavendish Kinetics, maker of tunable radio frequency micro-eletromechanical systems, has closed on $36 million in funding that it expects to use for advancing its technology a generation and developing RF switches for a more efficient, simplified RF front end that can support the numerous bands that make up modern cellular systems. TechNavio has predicted a compound annual…
At present, Paytm, a mobile payments and commerce company, claims to have crossed 100 millon users in the country, carrying out 75 million transactions every month. However, the number of active users, and number of transactions made by them every week or month is not known. In their insights on the mobile wallet market in…
The GCC’s airport construction market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.86% between 2014 and 2019, a report has found. TechNavio’s report, Airport Construction Market in the GCC Countries 2015-2019, states that airports offer numerous economic benefits to the region. “GCC countries are well-known worldwide for the infrastructural achievements” provided…
Rising demand for polycarbonate plastics is expected to boost the growth of the global bisphenol A (BPA) market, which is expected to post a CAGR of 5% from 2015-2019, as per Technavio. BPA is a carbon-based synthetic compound used in the production of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. Polycarbonate plastics have high tensile strength and…
Medtronic plc (MDT – Analyst Report) recently presented new clinical data that validate the clinical effectiveness of its IN.PACT Admiral drug-coated balloon’s (DCB) in treating long lesions in one’s upper leg’s arteries. The data, taken from two different studies and presented at EuroPCR 2015, demonstrate Medtronic’s strong potential in the global peripheral vascular devices market….
In its “Global Enterprise Content Management Market, 2014-2018”report, TechNavio describes enterprise content management (ECM) as “a set of tools used to manage critical business content in an organization,” including the “ingestion, archiving and management of content that can be easily integrated with third-party systems within a content workflow.” In other words, ECM is not a…
The global bunker fuel market is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4 percent per year between 2014 and 2019, according to recent report by technology research and advisory company TechNavio. According to the report, investment from vendors in the market is expected to grow, with some key vendors being Bomin Bunker Holding andChemoil International. “Bunker fuel…
Within ultra-Orthodox Jewish culture, physical contact between unmarried men and women is forbidden, as is viewing sexually suggestive imagery of any kind. A ban on pornography is a given, but even a Victoria’s Secret catalog is off limits for devout followers, who are typically seen wearing black coats and long dresses. Sex is one of…
