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Apple has renewed its exclusive rights to use Liquidmetal Technologies' unique metal alloys in its line of products, according to a document filed today with the SEC. The new agreement extends Apple's relationship with Liquidmetal Technologies until February 5, 2016.
Mac Rumors
American chip manufacturers argue that, without the trade deal, they will be squeezed out of the growing Asian market for computer chips by competitors in countries like China.
New York Times
Two Chinese tech firms have clashed over a new wireless router with a special setting for pregnant women.
BBC News
Fitbit claims to currently own up to 68% of the market in fitness trackers . But Jawbone, Under Armour, Garmin, Google, Samsung , Microsoft and others are all jostling for a slice of the pie.
NASDAQ.com
Silicon-based nanowire transistors (NWTs)-otherwise known as gate-all-around transistors-are getting ready to replace FinFETs at the 7nm or 5nm integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing nodes, according to experts in the field.
IHS Electronics360
The US International Trade Commission staff is recommending that Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm be cleared of patent-infringement accusations brought by Nvidia.
Bloomberg
ITU has established the overall roadmap for the development of 5G mobile and defined the term it will apply to it as "IMT-2020".
Company release
Gigaset, a name normally associated with landline phones, is to enter the smartphone race.
Pocket-lint
Applied Micro Circuits recently appointed hedge fund manager Christopher Zepf as one of its board of directors, which has led many to believe that perhaps the company might soon present itself for sale.
Bidness ETC
The design center will focus on the development of leading edge technologies targeting 4G/5G protocols and the Internet of Things.
Company release
Business Insider
Any split of AMD would result in two smaller companies, heavily interdependent, taking on larger, entrenched, and determined competitors.
Forbes
By the end of this year India may break into the top 10 solar power markets, in terms of installed capacity, as the South Asian giant has now crossed 4 GW of installed solar power capacity.
Cleantechnica
Goldman analysts added that they expect DRAM prices to drop 30% over the next three quarters.
The Street
Does the law of Florida discriminate against solar power companies?
Forbes
Podemos worked with Robert Pollin on plan that they say could create hundreds of thousands of jobs and would be self-financing.
Guardian
Sony unveiled its super-thin 4K Android TV sets earlier this year but, until now, we weren't sure what they were going to cost. Now the company is finally ready to reveal those secrets as it prepares for launch.
Techradar
The latest designs are so thin and flexible that you can peel them off your wall and roll them up like a sheet of cardboard, making them as portable as a mobile phone or tablet.
South China Morning Post
Germany's Merck aims to be a leading maker of OLED (organic light-emitting diode) materials by 2018, its head of chemicals said on Friday.
Reuters
In line with this strategy, LG announced Tuesday that it would join hands with California-based Google to promote LG's premium OLED TVs.
Korea Herald
Samsung Electronics has asked that a full bench of an appeals court should review a damages award in a long-standing patent infringement dispute with arch-rival Apple.
PC World
Cisco plans to invest $10 billion in China, although its sales in the country are slumping due in part to persistent security concerns surrounding US technology.
Computerworld
The proximate source of a lot of this pressure is China, say SouthBay Economics' Andrew Zatlin. Semiconductors are suffering a fallout stemming from China's slowing economy just like other commodities have.
Wall Street Journal
It would be the first increase since the rate was cut to near zero during the 2008 financial crisis.
BBC News
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the departure of former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop as part of a broad restructuring at the company, one that will see its Operating Systems Group and Microsoft Devices Group merge into one unit.
Apple Insider
Intel's CEO, Brian Krzanich, made his commitment to wearable technology very clear shortly after assuming his current role in 2013.
Company release
Ultimately, LG's super UHD TV narrowly beat Samsung's model.
BusinessKorea
There's one THX-certified 4K television in the early-2015 stable-the 70-inch Sharp Aquos LC-UH30U.
Wired
Efforts to combat climate change could be jeopardised by a backlash against the rising costs of green levies on energy bills, IPPR think-tank says
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