If you have some doubts about the future of engineering in the United States, I have some good news for you. US computer and engineering colleges are still among the best in the world. Despite immigration constraints of the last several years, the institutions remain attractive globally and are pulling in many of the most…
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NEWBURYPORT, Mass. — Frank Cavallaro, the former CEO of Converge and President at Converge/Arrow Electronics, today announced the launch of Fronetics Strategic Advisors, a new strategic advisory firm designed to help companies and private equity firms involved in the global hi-tech supply chain, electronic asset disposal, and integrated logistics industries optimize go-to-market strategies to grow…
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Achieving compliance with the EU's Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemical Substances regulation, otherwise known as REACH, can be onerous, but harried electronics equipment makers and suppliers can more easily scale this hurdle by partnering with companies specialized in components verifications and scrubbing. One of these is Total Parts Plus (TPP), a Florida-based company…
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SMYRNA, Ga. — Murata Electronics North America, Inc. and its parent company Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSE/OSE: 6981), the world's number one supplier of passive electronic components, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire RF Monolithics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RFMI) in an all cash transaction. Targeted to close in the third calendar…
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And then there were three. Earlier this week, Japan's newest, biggest display manufacturer, Japan Display, began operations. Japan Display is the joint venture, announced last September, among Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi. The three companies merged their LCD operations with $2.6 billion from a Japanese government-backed fund. (See: What Does LCD Merger Mean for Apple?) Japan…
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A few years ago, the promise of global renewable energy turned many of us, myself included, into Green advocates. Companies and governments made strong arguments for outfitting urban rooftops and rural fields with solar panels and plopping down wind turbines along hilltops. It was easy to see, too, the environmental evils in coal burning and…
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{complink 3847|Nokia Corp.} investors should expect a long and arduous recovery for the entity that once led the mobile phone market for much of the last decade. They should also expect the near certainty that the company will emerge from the ongoing restructuring painfully smaller and possibly less profitable. My personal opinion is that Stephen…
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A comment on one of my earlier articles in March, Counterfeiting: The Battle Is On, asked me to look into Applied DNA Sciences (APDN) and its botanical DNA applications. So, I have been reviewing various publications and press announcements and discovering that APDN's use of plant DNA for supply chain tracking is rapidly gaining the…
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FORT WORTH, Texas — TTI Inc., today announced the debut of a new buying option on www.ttiinc.com called ezReel. This new option offers TTI customers an online interface to purchase parts in cut tape, or less than standard reel quantities, and have the parts placed on 7” mini reels with leader and trailer tape attached.…
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PHOENIX — With growing demand for both sustainable energy sources and new technologies for managing energy efficiency, today’s electronic systems developers face new opportunities and new design challenges to advance smart energy solutions. To provide an opportunity for designers to learn about the newest smart energy technologies from leading suppliers, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a…
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