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Apple Inc. 's iPhone lost ground to Samsung Electronics Co. and Google Inc. 's Motorola in an annual study measuring the satisfaction of consumers, following a sales slowdown for the pioneering smartphone.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, has announced the launch of the NX300 - the new flagship model in its successful NX series - in the UAE.

The family of American researcher Shane Todd stormed out of the courtroom, shortly after the inquiry into his death resumed after lunch on Tuesday.

's stock had its "outperform" rating reiterated by investment analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein in a note issued to investors on Monday, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports.

The analysts wrote, "Chipmos Technologies Bermuda has been upgraded by TheStreet Ratings from hold to buy.

Wilson Electronics has named Robert Van Buskirk as its new president and CEO. Van Buskirk comes to the cell signal booster maker from his previous role as president of RF Micro Devices.

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STMicroelectronics is considering plans to offer its fully depleted silicon on insulator process to second-tier foundries United Microelectronics Corp.

MEMC Electronic Materials Inc has found its shares on an extended run in recent weeks.

Several analysts from a major financial services company believe that the wearable technology market will grow bigger than most investors realize and that Apple could be one of the major beneficiaries of this lucrative new market growth.

This agreement resolves patent litigation that was pending in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval today jointly called for the passage of a legislative proposal to accelerate the retirement of coal plants owned by NV Energy and to expand renewable energy development in Nevada in the coming years.

At PCIM Europe 2013 in Nuremberg, Infineon Technologies AG launched its new EconoDUAL 3 IGBT modules, which are fully qualified according to automotive standards.

's stock had its "overweight" rating reaffirmed by Barclays Capital in a research note issued on Monday, StockRatingsNetwork reports.

On Thursday, May 16th, Applied Materials, Inc. reported the results of what I believe to be a very strong second quarter.

STMicroelectronics NV plans to introduce phase-change memory as an embedded non-volatile memory option for use with its microcontrollers.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company leads the semiconductor foundry world, but now it is aiming to leapfrog ahead with home-grown super-chips that combine SoCs, memory, sensors and all the other chips you need to make a system into a single "super-chip": R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog Vice president of R&D and cheif technology officer Jack Sun ... (more)

The multinational initiative started by Alcatel Lucent's Bell Labs called GreenTouch is three years into its initial five-year remit and appears to be doing good work.

Vishay Intertechnology Inc. has broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with the introduction of two high-speed 850 nm and 940 nm infrared emitters and a package-matched high-speed silicon PIN photodiode with high radiant sensitivity from 780 nm to 1050 nm.

KEMET's KPS HT Series devices with an X8L dielectric utilize a proprietary lead-frame technology to vertically stack one or two Multilayer ceramic chip capacitors into a single compact surface mount package.