European Commission fines smart card chip makers €138m for price fixing
The European Commission fines smart card chip makers €138 million ($181 million) for coordinating their market behavior, thus violating European Union (EU) anti-competition rules that...
Tablet forecasts down PCs up
Tablet forecasts for 2014 have been lowered to 233.1 million units, following two successive quarters of softer-than-predicted demand. International Data Corporation’s (IDC’s) new Worldwide...
Chinese semiconductor consumption growth
Chinese semiconductor consumption growth exceeded the global consumption market for the third year running in 2013. While the worldwide semiconductor consumption market grew by...
Alibaba sales increased
Alibaba sales increased significantly, driven by dramatically higher sales through mobile devices, the company reported in its latest quarterly results, probably the last before...
Amazon bought Twitch for $970 million
In a move that beat off Google’s YouTube and Yahoo, Amazon bought Twitch, the video-gaming streaming company, for $970 million in cash. YouTube was...
Amazon online advertising Google challenge
Will Amazon online advertising be taking Google head on in the multibillion lucrative Internet ad market? It appears the giant online retailer is developing...
Cloud computing research awards
Two cloud computing research awards worth $10 million have been announced by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The projects will be called CloubLab and...
HP Q3 profit down sales up
HP Q3 profit was markedly down to $985 billion compared to $1.39 billion in Q3 2013, but its sales increased by 1% to $27.6...
Verizon ranked top in network performance league
Once again, Verizon ranked top in the US national network performance league, according to a report published today by RootMetrics. AT&T came a close...
Applied Materials Q3 profit jumps 79 percent
Applied Materials Q3 profit increased by 79% to $301 million (24 cents per share) from $168 million (14 cents per share) in Q3 2013,...