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Austriansolar Chile Uno SpA, a Chilean renewable-energy developer, plans to build a US$216 million PV-power plant in Chile's northern Atacama desert.
Bloomberg
We need to stop paying for incredibly expensive green energy, and make sure it gets cheaper as fast as possible, otherwise huge amounts of money will be wasted on doing nothing, Bjorn Lomborg, a professor at Copenhagen Business School, told RT.
RT
What does the future hold for our smartphones? Well according to chip maker Qualcomm the sky's the limit as manufacturers succumb to consumer's greed for bigger, better, more fantastical tech in their pocket.
Techradar
It looks like Samsung has had some quality control issues in the Chinese market, and China's population was left to deal with it.
Android and Me
Fusion-io swung to a fiscal first-quarter loss as the data-storage company recorded a steep drop in revenue, weighing on margins. The company also announced CFO Dennis Wolf will be leaving.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Samsung has been awarded a Korean patent for a smart headset the company is calling "Sports Glasses."
CNET
Dow Chemical, which is looking to exit businesses that are exposed to commodity price swings, said it planned to raise at least US$3 billion to US$4 billion from asset sales.
Reuters UK
Business Insider
STMicroelectronics said chip demand is taking a hit as smartphone manufacturers trim orders, adding to testimony of weakening appetite for high-end handsets.
Bloomberg
Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic will slash its 14,000-strong chipmaking workforce by half and possibly sell some of its plants, the Nikkei business daily reported Wednesday.
NASDAQ.com
British microchip designer ARM said Tuesday it has a record order backlog going into the final fiscal quarter as it posted a rise in third-quarter profit on forecast-beating revenue powered by global demand for smartphones.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
While TI hit the targets, investors seemed shaken by drops in revenue and EPS from the same quarter last year.
ZDNet
Broadcom fell after the company forecast lower fourth-quarter revenue than analysts estimated and said it's cutting as many as 1,150 jobs as demand slows for chips that connect mobile phones to the Internet.
Bloomberg
Company release
A small solar-equipment manufacturer is the latest company in China to be swept up in a nationwide anticorruption drive.
The Wall Street Journal
AT&T's live U-Verse TV streaming has at last reached Android. Subscribers can now watch over 100 live channels from their Google-powered hardware, including more than 20 channels that are available away from home.
engadget
It is especially unfortunate the Hinkley Point overhaul is being done in a manner that demanded so much haggling.
The Guardian
Microsoft's tablet debut is loud and colorful and full of enthusiasm. The only thing it's missing is people that want to buy its new tablet.
CNET
Tom's Hardware Guide
Applied Materials has announced new technology systems for manufacturing large size and ultra-high definition (UHD) LCD and OLED displays that meet consumer demand for greater screen performance, clarity, color and brightness.
Company release
The chief executive of HTC has handed some operational duties to the company's chairman and co-founder, as the beleaguered Taiwanese smartphone maker tries to claw its way back to prominence in the hyper-competitive mobile sector.
Finacial Times
The world's solar energy industry has been steadily advancing since Bell Labs invented the world's first modern solar cell in 1954.
Forbes
Mimicking the iconic design of Lego blocks, an international team of scientists discovered a better way to harvest the sun's energy.
Mashable
China Solar Energy Holdings, the solar panel maker that's lost 93% of its market value since 2007, said its chairman and two directors have been detained by Chinese authorities on allegations of fraud.
Business Week
Energy Minister Greg Barker has said on-shore wind farms have turned public opinion against renewable energy.
telegraph.com.uk (USE Daily Telegraph (UK))
Applied Materials, Inc. has announced new technology systems for manufacturing large size and ultra-high definition (UHD) LCD and OLED displays that meet consumer demand for greater screen performance, clarity, color and brightness.
Printed Electronics World
To say the past few months have been eventful for Universal Display investors seems like one heck of an understatement.
Motley Fool
Microsoft on Friday yanked the Windows RT 8.1 update from its Windows Store after some Surface RT owners reported their tablets had been crippled.
Computerworld
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