Clearlake Capital-backed GlobeLTR expands pre-frac and produced water sourcing, delivery and transportation capabilities and services in the Permian Basin.

 

The Trump appointee to the US FCC chairmanship, Ajit Pai, said yesterday he wants to abandon net neutrality – the rule that everyone must get equal service from broadband providers. Net neutrality stops broadband providers charging extra for fast service. Pai said yesterday that he believed the rules depressed investment by internet providers and cost …

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The Innovation Network Company of Japan (INCJ), a government bail-out fund for troubled companies, is to sell a 20% stake in Renesas. INCJ currently holds 69% of Renesas after bailing out the company in 2013. At that time the company had cumulative losses of some $6 billion over the previous seven years. INCJ bought its …

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ST re-appoints Carlo Bozotti as CEO and has appointed Jean-Marc Chery as deputy CEO.

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Premier Farnell has signed a global franchise agreement with Dialog. ‘This new agreement expands our product range, and coupled with Dialog’s advanced system-level knowhow, deep portfolio of intellectual property and mixed signal innovation, further enables us to provide a full service solution for customers, supporting our customers from design to initial production as they take their …

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In 1988, a 19 year-old arrived from India having won a transfer scholarship to Caltech. After going  to Stanford as a grad student he joined Apple. In 1995 he got $300,000 for a start-up having walked out on his VCs when they asked for a 30% stake. Next day the VCs called back and offered …

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A development platform for the Android open source project (AOSP) has been created by Huawei. The ARM-based hardware is part of the Linaro open source collaborative engineering organization developing software for the ARM ecosystem. The HiKey 960 96Boards development platform from Huawei is now listed on the 96Boards website and will become available through global distribution …

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Some of the brightest innovators from UK schools gathered at PA Consulting Group’s annual Raspberry Pi coding competition final in London.

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Thermoelectric energy harvesters are available from Leicestershire-based European Thermodynamics. “The Adaptive range has been developed with design and development engineers in mind,” said company engineer Tibor Toro. “The initial products in the range are an excellent addition to energy harvesting research and development, evaluating standalone or even small grid connected strategies. We are looking forward …

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ADI has launched an ADC to meet the spectral efficiency demands of 4G/5G  base-stations. It also meets the reduced run-time targets of multi-standard production instrumentation and provides a detection range and sensitivity suitable for defense electronics. Made on a  28nm CMOS process, the AD9208 delivers  bandwidth and dynamic range to cover the largest number of …

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