Here, thanks to CB Insights,  are the US companies with the most cash stashed abroad:

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The Chairman of Qualcomm has written to the CEO of Broadcom saying that the conditions for a takeover of Qualcomm have been agreed except for the condition of price. Qualcomm is offering a break-up fee to Broadcom of 9% of enterprise value ($7.38 billion) if regulatory approval is refused by any fault of Qualcomm. Broadcom …

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Great news. There are now more ways to connect wires directly to PCBs, this time brought to you from Würth Elektronik.

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Some say all the latest phones look the same. Surely not.

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The closing date is fast approaching! Check out this competition on Electronics Weekly, which offers the chance to get your hands on NXP NFC-enabled LPC8N04 development board.

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The city’s former water utilities administrator said the water system generated a huge number of resident complaints about odor and color two months after the city’s April 2014 switch to river water.

Thanks to Water Authority investments and steep price hikes for ratepayers, Cushman says San Diego has a diversified set of water sources and an impressive network of infrastructure.

Michaël Uyttersprot discusses embedded vision and what is required to bring a system to market for real-world applications. Visual input is arguably the richest source of sensor information. Scientists and engineers have been trying to understand and exploit imaging technologies for many decades now, developing algorithms for vision applications that enable computing machines to ‘see’. …

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Toshiba has  developed  TaRF10, a new version of its TarfSOI (Toshiba advanced RF silicon-on-insulator CMOS process optimized for low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) in smartphone applications. In recent years, the increasing speed of mobile data communication has expanded the use of RF switches and filters in the analog front end of mobile devices. The resulting increase in …

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PoLTE and  Sequans are integrating PoLTE positioning technology into Sequans’ Monarch LTE Platform, enabling indoor and outdoor positioning capability for LTE for IoT devices. Sequans sees value in PoLTE’s Lite-Touch virtual location architecture. While other competitors will have to increase their costs, size and energy consumption by embedding GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or other radios just …

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