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AGCO Supports Agricultural Mechanization in Africa

DULUTH, Ga. - Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AGCO, Your Agriculture Company (NYSE: AGCO), a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, today held the 2nd annual AGCO Africa Summit in Berlin. The Summit is a joint initiative of AGCO, Bayer CropScience, DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH and Rabobank. "Africa’s population is set to rise to two billion by 2050,” said Martin Richenhagen, AGCO Chairman, President and CEO. "But food security in Africa is by no means where it needs to be to face this challenge. It is a global responsibility to develop agriculture in Africa to meet the growing demand for food security and better nutrition.”

The AGCO Africa Summit highlighted the needs of the African continent and discussed the challenges of today’s agriculture with regard to the world food supply problem, declining arable land base and rapid pop ... Read more »

To address "Storage Innovation and Toshiba's Strategy"

ME Newswire / Business Wire

TOKYO - Monday, January 21st 2013

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that Yoichiro Tanaka, Ph.D., Senior Manager of Storage Products Application Engineering Department, Storage Products Division, Semiconductor & Storage Products Company, will give a presentation at IDEMA[1] Japan January 2013 Quarterly Seminar on Friday, January 25. Dr. Tanaka will speak on "Storage Innovation and Toshiba's Strategy." The structure of the storage products market of HDDs and SSDs is rapidly changing with tablets becoming common in the client/personal market along with PCs. At the other end of the spectrum, use of high speed and large capacity storage products in cloud computing, big data, and smart community is evolving as infrastructure to support the client/personal market and the ITC society. Toshiba will continue to develop leading-edge technology and products for the drastically ... Read more »