Swype allows users to glide a finger across the virtual keyboard to spell words, rather than tapping out each letter.

ARM is more valuable as a standalone company and a buyer would be wasting money, said company CEO Warren East. The chip designer rose last week to an eight-year high on takeover talk.

When compared to carbon-intensive electricity sources such as coal, which supplies 45 percent of U.S. electricity, a significant role for PV technology in the energy mix may have a difficult road ahead.

SunEdison, a division of MEMC Electronic Materials,has purchased two ground-mount solar PV development projects in Ontario from TransAlta, Canada's largest publicly traded generator and marketer of electricity and renewable power.

Fujitsu and Toshiba are merging their mobile-handset operations into a joint venture. In some ways this makes sense. Handsets aren't core to either business.

Vendors are adding cheaper and simpler Android-based phones to their portfolios, in an effort to put smartphones in the hands of more users.

Unveils analytics software, services for managing cell towers, software for mobile devices and other efforts

Infineon has hired JPMorgan to sound out a possible sale of its wireless business. People close to the situation said at least one possible buyer had approached the German chipmaker.