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LG Display reported a profit for the fourth quarter as its key customers including Apple Inc. launched new products.
Huffington Post
In a bullish sign for Apple, Google and other tablet makers, market tracker ABI Research says worldwide tablet shipments will surge 29.5% in 2013 to 145 million units, up from about 112 million unit sales in 2012.
Investor's Business Daily
Corning developed a thin, flexible glass, but the real breakthrough was figuring out how to mass-produce it.
Technology Review
Just three short years after the technology's original deployment, worldwide subscribers to the 4G wireless standard known as Long Term Evolution (LTE) are projected to surpass the 100-million mark this year.
Company release
The successor to Samsung Electronics' blockbuster Galaxy S3 could launch in April. That's according to Samsung news Web site SamMobile, which pegs the phone's launch on April 15.
CNET
Agilent Technologies has launched the N6465A test application for embedded multimedia card (eMMC) compliance test in response to a new version of the JEDEC eMMC specification.
EE Times
As well as its US regional headquarters, Sony has also indicated its willingness to sell the building housing its television business in Tokyo.
BBC News
The recession in Europe is entering its fifth year and unemployment doesn't look like it will be returning to normal levels anytime soon.
CNN
Intel has presented Professor Stephen Hawking with a birthday gift, a 300mm wafer with the message "Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking" inscribed hundreds of times in copper letters defined using Intel's 32nm manufacturing procress.
EE Times
Sony will introduce a new tablet computer in Japan this year as it tries to lure customers from Apple and Samsung Electronics.
Business Week
Apple might release three new iPhones in 2013.
RT
While it's a sketchy rumor, it seems reasonable that Apple will get serious about taking on smartphones like Samsung's 4.8-inch Galaxy S III.
CNET
An audacious plan to lay a multibillion-dollar wind power transmission spine under the seabed from southern Virginia to the New York City area will take a step forward on Tuesday with an announcement of plans for the first leg, a 189-mile segment running from Jersey City to a spot south of Atlantic City.
New York Times
New York Times
Solar Power Portal
The Wall Street Journal
Reports out of Korea today cite a milestone figure for LG Optimus G sales, and information on the device's arrival finally in Europe.
Android Community
There seem to plenty of leaks around the devices that we might see at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013. The latest to join the league is Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0.
NDTV Profit
You've probably never heard of Tizen, but the companies behind it are some of the most recognizable brands in the tech industry.
CNET
After Samsung recently announced a quarterly profit of $8.1 billion, driven partially by smart phone sales, some observers immediately leaped to herald the tech giant.
Forbes
Boston Globe
ASML has warned of a weak first quarter but said it sees a recovery in the following months as smartphone and tablet makers shift to the next generation of chips.
Reuters
Japan's economy minister surprised financial markets on Tuesday by warning of the potential ill effects of a sharply weaker yen in a rare rhetorical departure from years of attempts by Tokyo to talk the currency down.
The Financial Times
Company release
Apple is reportedly seeking to open a research and development facility in Beijing, as well as relocate App Store and iTunes servers to the country in order to facilitate development and distribution of online content for the Asian market, according to information posted Tuesday by Tencent, a Chinese news portal, and translated by BrightWire.
Macobserver
Dell is in buyout talks with private-equity firms, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The shares surged.
Bloomberg
InvenSense , which makes gyroscopes and other motion sensors, plans to sell chips within a couple of years that let smartphones guide their owners up and down escalators, through subway stations and up to specific cubicles within skyscrapers - all places that GPS signals do not currently work well.
Reuters (via Yahoo! News)
Tim Cook, making his second trip to China as Apple's CEO, predicted Friday that the world's most populous country will one day become Apple's number one customer.
CNNMoney
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