Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Even the recent increase in chip shipments and the potential for a bump in holiday sales of tech gadgets may not give chip companies the long-term economic recovery they are looking for.
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Fed money goes for energy and water industries to get more efficient. by Harry Fuller
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
LONDON (MARKET WIRE) Benchmark Journal brings independent company and sector research together, utilizing top financial advisors and investment tactics to provide you with a clear picture of investment opportunities. Today we began research on National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM), KKR Financial Holdings LLC (NYSE: KFN), National Penn Bancshares Inc. (NASDAQ: NPBC), Activision Blizzard Inc....
Information Week (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Former AMD chief executive Hector Ruiz, whose name has been linked to an insider trading case, has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
GlobalFoundries announced that chairman Hector Ruiz will resign from the company in January, he will be replaced by Alan E. Ross. It is unknown if this is related to the Galleon case. According to the company's press release Ruiz submitted his voluntary resignation in September, several weeks before Ruiz's named popped up in the insider trading scandal. Hector Ruiz, chairman of the GLOBALFOUNDRIES...
TG Daily (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
AMD spinoff Globalfoundries has announced that Hector Ruiz has quit as chairman with immediate effect.
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
After he was outed last week for being a tipster in the Galleon insider trading case, former AMD (AMD) CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down as CEO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES. ------ SUNNYVALE, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Hector Ruiz, chairman of the GLOBALFOUNDRIES board of directors, will take a voluntary leave of absence effective immediately before resigning from the company in January, the company’s...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brian L. Halla, chairman and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., today addressed the role of electronics in creating more energy-efficient systems, optimizing renewable energy sources and enabling smarter energy storage systems. He delivered his comments in a keynote speech, "A World Racing to Be Green," at the Nikkei Green Device 2009 Forum...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Michael Polacek, Senior Vice President Key Market Segments & Business Development of National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM), will speak at 8:45 a.m. PST on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 at the Wedbush Clean Technology & Industrial Growth Conference 2009. The event takes place at the W Hotel in San Francisco, Calif.
The Steady Drip (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
===================================== FROM: THE COUNTRY of TEXAS TO: The rest of "youall" out there In case things get a little tough during the next few months we Texans have a plan... Maybe you don't know it, but Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede from the Union . (Reference the Texas-American Annexation Treaty of 1848.) We Texans love all y'all Americans, but we'll probably...
Earth2Tech (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
The first U.S. solar IPO in a year could be coming soon, but the merger and acquisition market is what will be bringing in exits and cash for solar startups. Yesterday MEMC Electronic Materials, a company that makes silicon wafers for the solar industry, announced that it plans to buy up SunEdison, one of the [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
CHICAGO - Zacks Research Equity Strategist, Dirk Van Dijk says that S&P 500 earnings are continuing to show red ink. He tracks companies on the Zacks.com web site, naming names, while forecasting trends for the months ahead. Key Points from Van Dijk's Latest Ear
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zacks Research Equity Strategist, Dirk Van Dijk says that S&P 500 earnings are continuing to show red ink. He tracks companies on the Zacks.com web site, naming names, while forecasting trends for the months ahead. Key Points from Van Dijk's Latest Earnings Assessment Earnings surprise ratio (#beat / #miss) at 5.56 Median Earnings Surprise 7.90% Year-over-year earnings...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) today announced the availability of an intermediate frequency (IF) sampling receiver reference design for multi-carrier, multi-standard wireless basestations addressing GSM/EDGE, WCDMA, LTE and WiMAX standards. The subsystem reference design kit gives radio designers the necessary technical material - reference...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and LIMERICK, Ireland, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Powervation, a leading provider of IC solutions for energy control and management in information processing systems, today named veteran power-conversion executive, Stephen Allen as vice president of global sales. Allen joins the company from National Semiconductor's Advanced Power Technology Group, where he served as director of...
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