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Representative of Grenoble-Isere to visit Colorado

Event Date: Sat, May 14 6:00pm - Wed, May 18 6:00pm @  | 
  They want to meet you!  … 

Graphene quantum dots and nano-ribbons cleaved from graphene sheets

 Kansas State University researchers have come closer to solving an old challenge of producing graphene quantum dots of controlled shape and size at large densities, which could revolutionize electronics and optoelectronics.  … 
Updated: 1 day ago

ZTE confirms security hole in U.S. phone

(Reuters) - ZTE Corp, the world's No.4 handset vendor and one of two Chinese companies under U.S. scrutiny over security concerns, said one of its mobile phone models sold in the United States contains a vulnerability that researchers say could allow others to control the device.  … 
Updated: 1 day ago

How Mobile is Rapidly Evolving the World

The first time I can remember realizing how critical mobile phones were to people was back in 2006, while I was working in India. It was a blistering summer, and I’d heard the news that rural farmers were waiting in mile long lines to bring their produce to market; most had to spend the night … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Software piracy costs US$63.4 bil in '11: study

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Software piracy cost the industry a record US$63.4 billion globally in 2011 with emerging economies listed as the main culprits, an annual study said Tuesday.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Deal Professor: China Flexes Its Regulatory Muscle, Catching Google in Its Grip

China is having the final word on Google’s biggest and perhaps most strategic deal to date — its proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the American handset maker and communications company.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Kulicke & Soffa: Business Is Better Than Last Year

Bruno Guilmart, President & Global CEO, Kulicke & Soffa says that consumer demand is driving business growth. The firm has also opened a new facility in Singapore to capture the Asian market.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Top Ten Foundries

Thanks to Gartner for this - the top ten foundries measured by revenues:                                $bn   TSMC                  14.5   UMC                      3.6   GloFo                     3.6   SMIC                      1.35   Tower/Jazz              0.6    … 
Updated: 4 days ago

GM to yank $10M in Facebook ads, saying they don't work

The automaker began re-evaluating its Facebook strategy earlier this year. According to the WSJ, it determined that while free marketing works on the site, paid ads don't. [Read more]  … 
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Seagate adding to workforce in Longmont

Seagate Technology, which already ranks as the largest private-sector employer in Longmont, is about to get even bigger, the Longmont Times-Call reports. The company said it's hired 86 full-time employees so far this year, and brought on 38 interns.  … 
Updated: 1 day ago

Agilent buys Dako

Agilent is to pay $2.2bn cash for Dako of Denmark which makes scientific instruments and software for the diagnosis of cancer.  … 
Updated: 2 days ago

Hewlett-Packard may cut thousands of workers, reports say

Hewlett-Packard Co.  … 
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Marvell outlook shines on China smartphone demand

(Reuters) - Chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd expects rising Chinese mobile phone sales and a post-Thai flood uptick in the hard-drive market to propel current-quarter results, sending its shares up 5 percent after the bell.  … 
Updated: 2 days ago

U.S. sets new tariffs on Chinese solar imports

(Reuters) - The United States hit Chinese solar companies with punitive import tariffs of 30 percent or more on Thursday, ruling they had dumped cut-price solar panels into the U.S. market.  … 
Updated: 2 days ago

Avago and TriQuint bury the hatchet

The designer and developer of analogue IIIV semiconductor devices and the gallium arsenide and gallium nitride innovator have come to an agreement to cross licensing patents  … 
Updated: 3 days ago

FDI in China falls for sixth straight month

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China fell for the sixth consecutive month in April, official figures showed Tuesday, dragged down by a plunge in fund flows from crisis-struck Europe.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Nvidia CEO pushes graphics chips toward cloud

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang wants his graphics chips to be adopted in data centers to help stream better graphics to smartphones and tablets, his company's newest bid to diversify beyond personal computers.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Eastman Kodak sending thermal-media operation to Colorado

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Hewlett-Packard may cut thousands of workers, reports say

Hewlett-Packard Co.  … 
Updated: 2 days ago

FDI in China falls for sixth straight month

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China fell for the sixth consecutive month in April, official figures showed Tuesday, dragged down by a plunge in fund flows from crisis-struck Europe.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Qualtrics: Tech's Hidden Gem In Utah

This article appears in the June 4th, 2012 issue of Forbes Magazine.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Air Force to pay ULA $398M for satellite launches

The U.S.  … 
Updated: 5 days ago

How NASA Led Tech to the Cloud

From FINS A decade ago in a Houston bar, an Air Force general named S. Pete Worden ran into a group of young, liberal graduate students who were attending the World Space Congress, a spaceflight industry convention, to protest the militarization of space. Worden, then 52, was a big proponent of weapons in the stars, … 
Updated: 5 days ago

Nvidia, IV license IPWireless 3G/4G patents

Nvidia and Intellectual Ventures jointly acquired a set of about 500 patents developed and owned by IPWireless including some on LTE, LTE-Advanced and 3G wireless.View the full article HERE.  … 
Updated: 5 days ago

Private Spacecraft To Service Private Space Stations

SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace Join Forces to Offer Crewed Missions To BA 330 Habitats There will come a time when privately-held space stations orbit the Earth ... and it may be coming sooner than you think. But crews will have to be transported to those facilities, and that's where a company like SpaceX comes in. … 
Updated: 5 days ago

Semi industry set for a good year, says IC Insights

The semiconductor industry is set for a sparkling year growing by 6% between Q1 and Q2 and by more between Q2 and Q3, according to IC Insights.  … 
Updated: 5 days ago

CEA-Leti and Arkema set up a platform for lithography based on nanostructured polymers

 CEA-Leti and Arkema, in association with LCPO (Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques) of Bordeaux, have shown the unique resolution potential of lithography based on nanostructured polymers.  … 
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Graphene quantum dots and nano-ribbons cleaved from graphene sheets

 Kansas State University researchers have come closer to solving an old challenge of producing graphene quantum dots of controlled shape and size at large densities, which could revolutionize electronics and optoelectronics.  … 
Updated: 1 day ago

Silicon Labs announces microcontroller die sales program in quantities as low as one wafer

 Silicon Laboratories introduced a customer-friendly microcontroller (MCU) die sales program, accelerating time to market and giving customers another option for small-footprint designs.  … 
Updated: 1 day ago

Hewlett-Packard may cut thousands of workers, reports say

Hewlett-Packard Co.  … 
Updated: 2 days ago

ZMDI to design power chips in Ireland

The move by the German chip firm builds on a growing cluster of power chip expertise in the region  … 
Updated: 3 days ago

FDI in China falls for sixth straight month

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China fell for the sixth consecutive month in April, official figures showed Tuesday, dragged down by a plunge in fund flows from crisis-struck Europe.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Kyocera's Smart Sonic Receiver arrives in Japan today

Unveiled at CTIA 2012, Kyocera's novel audio technology is coming to Japan today. [Read more]  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Qualtrics: Tech's Hidden Gem In Utah

This article appears in the June 4th, 2012 issue of Forbes Magazine.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Air Force to pay ULA $398M for satellite launches

The U.S.  … 
Updated: 5 days ago

How NASA Led Tech to the Cloud

From FINS A decade ago in a Houston bar, an Air Force general named S. Pete Worden ran into a group of young, liberal graduate students who were attending the World Space Congress, a spaceflight industry convention, to protest the militarization of space. Worden, then 52, was a big proponent of weapons in the stars, … 
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Two Colo. aerospace companies to partner on unmanned aircraft

Bye Aerospace and Ascent Solar announced they will partner on aircraft projects, including an unmanned air vehicle, reports the Denver Business Journal. Ascent Solar makes thin-cell photovoltaic solar-power modules. Bye Aerospace has been working on aircraft powered by electric motors. One concept Bye is working on now uses solar panels, the paper reported. Read more at … 
Updated: 4 days ago

Air Force to pay ULA $398M for satellite launches

The U.S.  … 
Updated: 5 days ago

How NASA Led Tech to the Cloud

From FINS A decade ago in a Houston bar, an Air Force general named S. Pete Worden ran into a group of young, liberal graduate students who were attending the World Space Congress, a spaceflight industry convention, to protest the militarization of space. Worden, then 52, was a big proponent of weapons in the stars, … 
Updated: 5 days ago

Private Spacecraft To Service Private Space Stations

SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace Join Forces to Offer Crewed Missions To BA 330 Habitats There will come a time when privately-held space stations orbit the Earth ... and it may be coming sooner than you think. But crews will have to be transported to those facilities, and that's where a company like SpaceX comes in. … 
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Worries mount as Nokia burns through cash

LONDON/HELSINKI, May 18 (IFR/Reuters) - Nokia Oyj is tearing through its cash reserves at an unsustainable rate, raising what some analysts say are serious questions about the struggling Finnish phone maker's ability to stabilize its finances in the months ahead.  … 
Updated: 1 day ago

Kleiner Perkins Closes New Early-Stage Fund

Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said it closed a new fund sized at $525 million, smaller than its prior $650 million fund that it raised in 2010.  … 
Updated: 2 days ago

Agilent buys Dako

Agilent is to pay $2.2bn cash for Dako of Denmark which makes scientific instruments and software for the diagnosis of cancer.  … 
Updated: 2 days ago

MEMC's CFO resigns to take job at Praxair

Mark Murphy, chief financial officer at silicon wafer supplier MEMC Electronic Materials, resigned to take a job as president of Praxair Surface Technologies, MEMC said. View the full article HERE.  … 
Updated: 2 days ago

Applied Materials Q2 revenue beats analyst expectations

Applied Materials Inc.'s stock closed Thursday at $10.48 per share. It was trading down nearly 1 percent after hours. The company on Thursday reported net income of $289 million, or 22 cents per share, compared to $489 million, or 37 cents per share, in the same quarter of last year. The Santa Clara-based company (NASDAQ:AMAT) … 
Updated: 2 days ago

Avago and TriQuint bury the hatchet

The designer and developer of analogue IIIV semiconductor devices and the gallium arsenide and gallium nitride innovator have come to an agreement to cross licensing patents  … 
Updated: 3 days ago

Facebook expands IPO size, aims for $15 billion: source

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is increasing the size of its IPO by 85 million shares to about 422 million, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, raising more than $15 billion in Silicon Valley's largest market debut.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

GM to drop Facebook ads due to low consumer impact

DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Tuesday it will stop advertising on Facebook, even as the social networking website prepares to go public.  … 
Updated: 4 days ago

T-Mobile to cut 900 jobs in latest restructuring (scoop)

More change for T-Mobile is afoot, as the fourth-place wireless carrier attempts to reduce its operating costs. [Read more]  … 
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