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MEDEA dilemma on Nanotechnology

MEDEA+, the European microelectronics R&D initiative, has a tricky dilemma. As an organization which works on R&D which is four to five years away from the market, it has to make a judgment about when nanotechnology will become commercially feasible in relation to electronics. In the case of nanotechnology, i.e. manipulating material at the atomic or molecular level, MEDEA, has ...

KKR, NXP and 3i

In his book, Merchants of Debt: KKR and the mortgaging of American business, George Anders tells the story of how Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts (KKR) invented the private equity company buy-out industry and loaded up corporate America with debt via highly leveraged deals which took public companies private. Some of the companies prospered, more often they did not. In almost ...

BBC talks of broadcasting HDTV on Freeview

The four major broadcasters have called for HDTV to be run on the terrestrial TV ahead of analogue switch off in 2012. Trials of HDTV on terrestrial by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five have just finished in London, and nearly all (86 per cent) of trialists expected to see HD services within three years, well before analogue switch-off. ...