Ecolab opens Water University to help companies accelerate their progress.

Hydraulic forced vortex grit chambers from Smith & Loveless applied to replace plate settlers.

It is currently taking four and a half hours to sell or buy a Bitcoin, reports Business Insider. Each sale or purchase has to be confirmed by six miners. Miners prioritise the highest priced transaction and they also charge a reported $26 per trade. When the crash comes, the time transactions take and the fees …

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I am about to engage in a turf war with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Ed confides to his diary, some friends of mine could benefit from a shake-up of the procedures around the awarding of telco licences. Trouble is the Secretary of State guards his turf jealously. Nonetheless I …

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Thales is to buy Gemalto for €4.8 billion after topping a €4.3 billion offer made by Atos. “Combined with Gemalto’s unique leading digital security portfolio, Thales will be ideally positioned to offer an end-to-end solution, to secure the full critical digital decision chains, from data creation in sensors to real-time decision making,” said a joint …

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China is to ramp up its EV ambitions by putting quotas on domestic vehicle producers

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Bad news for Qualcomm is that, if Broadcom succeeds in buying it, 30% of its employees may lose their jobs. Apparently, over the last four years and five acquisitions by Broadcom, around 30% of the employees of the five companies bought – some 5000 people – have lost their jobs. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan (pictured) …

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The  LT8364 current mode, 2MHz step-up DC/DC converter has an internal 4A, 60V switch. It operates from an input voltage range of 2.8V to 60V, and is suitable for applications with input sources ranging from a single-cell Li-Ion battery to multicell battery stacks, automotive inputs, telecom power supplies and industrial power rails. The device can be …

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The latest twist in the Toshiba saga is that China could derail the deal. China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) is reported by Bloomberg to have raised concern about Hynix’s presence in the winning consortium. With only four significant NAND producers in the world, the prospect of Hynix taking control of Toshiba will affect markets. Hynix’s …

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Seedstars World, the international start-up competition, held its Ukraine event in Kyiv last week when 12 start-ups won through to the next round of the competition. The 12 startups from Lviv, Odesa and Kyiv, will represent Ukraine at the Seedstars Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 12th where they will compete with startups from 65+ …

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