Last fall, the state’s Drinking Water and Groundwater Commission picked nine projects to get MtBE trust fund grants.

The Business Secretary has been getting on my tits, Ed confides to his diary, in the race to attract foreign companies to locate here post-Brexit, he’s been chatting up West Coast tech companies. They’re my bag and a lucrative one. Trouble is he’s naive, never been in business, honest for God’s sake, and doesn’t know …

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“Impromptu logistical changes” were blamed by Intel for the cancellation of the Intel drone show at the Winter Olympics in Seoul. For US TV audiences a video of a previous show was broadcast. A trifle cheekily Intel tweeted ‘See how our drone team pulled off a Guinness World Record title for the Opening Ceremony’. The …

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The trade secrets row between Uber and Google’s driverless car subsidiary Waymo has been settled. Under the settlement Waymo gets 0.34% of Uber, said to be worth $245 million and Uber agrees not to use Waymo technology. The row arose when Uber bought Otto which, a few months before, had been founded by ex-Waymo employee …

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IQE, which has seen its shares fall from 178p to 100p in the last three months, has fallen foul of a couple of hedge funds. One of the funds, Muddy Waters, which specialises in shorting shares, says that IQE over-stated its profits in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Muddy Waters says IQE used its Cardiff Semiconductor …

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Farnell element14 is selling the GraspIO Cloudio – a Raspberry Pi add-on board with Drag and Drop programming interface on iPhone, iPad, Android. Among other features, it incorporates Voice Assistant Capabilities, IFTTT (“If This Then That”) Integration, IoT Cloud Service, Sensor Monitor and Dashboard, Custom Notifications with Image and Video and One Tap Multi-Board Upload. …

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Broadcom has written a letter to Qualcomm offering to pay $8 billion to Qualcomm if its bid gets rejected by regulators. One of the key defences put up by Qualcomm to the Broadcom bid is that a takeover is unlikely to get regulatory approval. The size of this failure fee shows that  Broadcom is confident …

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Ricoh has launched the R1800 Buck DC/DC Converter, designed for use in energy harvesting devices. Target applications include wearables for sports and healthcare, wireless sensors and IoT devices. This is a DC/DC converter collecting energy generated from a photovoltaic or vibration energy harvester cell and stores it in a super capacitor or rechargeable battery. An …

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The  LTC3777 is a 150V high efficiency (up to 99%) 4-switch synchronous buck-boost DC/DC controller, which operates from input voltages above, below or equal to the regulated output voltage. Its 4.5V to 150V input voltage range operates from a high input voltage source or from an input that has high voltage surges, eliminating the need …

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Wishing an end without figuring out the means is aspirational masturbation – a vice to which Continental politicians are addicted. It was six years ago that Apple’s double Irish with a Dutch sandwich emerged to show the world how a company could be domiciled nowhere for tax purposes. Quelle horreur was the French response, but …

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