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Rare-earth metals found in Japanese waters
April 13, 2018
Centuries’ worth of these vital metals have been discovered by researchers, located in a 965sq mile stretch of Pacific Ocean seabed in Japanese waters, near the island of Minamitorishima. As CNBC reports, according to the study published by the researchers in Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports, enough of these rare-earth metals have been found to […]
Hurdles hit in Toshiba Memory sale
April 9, 2018
Toshiba’s efforts to sell Toshiba Memory to the Bain Capital-led consortium are being held up on antitrust grounds. According to the OEM, “certain conditions relating to required antitrust approvals” have yet to be met, despite the company originally hoping to close the deal by the end of last month; it has now set a revised […]