Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that CEA-Leti, a world-renowned research lab based in Grenoble, France, has selected Veeco’s TurboDisc® K465i Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) system for its ...
Any new toy that wants to get its product into retail needs to appreciate that they will not be alone. Retail buyers are inundated with calls from start-ups, inventors and product designers, almost daily. To get noticed you really need a ...
Tags: Toy Retail, Toys, consumer demand
Yahoo has acquired Summly, a news summarisation app company owned by a 17-year old-student from the UK. The technology summarises news stories by cutting them down into "snapshots", the idea being that mobile users can more easily "skim" ...
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Despite much talk during the preceding 12 months about the pivotal role that technology is expected to play in boosting the UK's ailing economy, there was precious little in today's Budget to add flesh to the bones. There is to be an ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Google will invest about US$10 million to nurture 10,000 new businesses in five years in India, says a report. Eric E. Schmidt, chairman of Google, will launch this ambitious programme for technology entrepreneurs in this week in New ...
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A Valley of Death blocks the way from laboratory to business, says the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. "British entrepreneurs are being badly let down by a lack of access to financial support," says Andrew Miller MP, ...
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A cyber-security company was the big winner at a new awards event. The awards were part of a three day event called Innovate UK 2013, which is a joint venture by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) aimed ...
Tags: Cyber security, Technology, PixelPin
LEDs are projected to grow more than six-fold to nearly $100 billion and power conversion electronics to $15 billion over the next decade as the desire for energy efficiency drives adoption, says Lux Research. While the market opportunity ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Lights, LED
More and more small toy businesses are using sites like Kickstarter to acquire funding and bring their products to market. The crowdfunding website has seen a number of fresh toys manufactured and shipped, including Atoms (pictured), a ...
Tags: Toy, toy businesses, toys manufacture
Daily 'flash sales' start-up website Casabu wants to reach one million members by the end of 2013. The news comes after the ten-month-old company secured £900,000 in funding. The site saw new sign up soars shortly after launching ...
Tags: Sales site, toys, toy industry
One of Sweden’s top technology start-ups of 2012, Heliospectra AB, announced today that it has officially launched the L4A Series 10 LED light system aimed at giving researchers an advanced tool for making new discoveries in the plant ...
More companies are complaining of unfair competition from Amazon Web Services (AWS), suggesting that Amazon has created AWS-based services similar to their own, pricing them aggressively in a bid to win market share. The claims come less ...
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Large businesses must deal with the same level of uncertainty as start-ups, and so need to experiment more and react quicker, said Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels, speaking at The Economist's Technology Frontiers summit ...
Barclays has inked a long-term partnership agreement with Allianz Commercial for provision of commercial insurance packages for its small and medium enterprises (SME) customer base across the UK. As part of the agreement, Allianz will ...
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The combination of costs having fallen 50 percent in the last 18 months and the rising efficiencies of LED lamps means a boost in chip sales A number of small start-up companies have begun offering hardware and software products for smart ...
Tags: LED lamps, chip sales, LEDs