GlobalFoundries, the chip maker based in Milpitas, Calif., celebrated its third year anniversary as a microchip foundry by purchasing all of the shares owned by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), effectively making the company an independent contract chip manufacturer.
As President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met at the White House Monday afternoon, about two hundred Occupy AIPAC protesters demonstrated against war in Iran and for Palestinian rights.
Hanover, Germany is the host city for the CeBIT conference starting March 6 through March 10, but a company called Tobit Software has already captured the crowd's imagination with a pole-dancing robot. As the second decade of the 21st century advances on, so does the robot world and the realm of mobile technology. From autonomous quadcoptors to a DARPA built four-legged Cheetah robot and exoskeleton supports for the disabled, the tech is advancing very rapidly.
One of the largest annual technical conferences, South by Southwest (SXSW), will begin Friday, March 9 and last until Sunday, March 18. Here is a full list of the SXSW 2012 music lineup for South by Southwest from March 13-18.
Arsene Wenger may want to retool his attack next season.
Greece has recalled its warship from the European Union's anti-piracy task force in the Indian Ocean to save money as it struggles to meet fiscal targets set by international lenders in return for a bailout package.
International filings for patent protection, a key indicator of technological innovation in major economies, hit an all-time record last year driven by growth in China and other middle- income countries, a United Nations agency said on Monday.
Only 8.6 percent of Greeks polled held a favorable view of the Germans (who, not coincidentally, happen to be Athens’ largest creditor).
The much beleaguered people of Greece have apparently turned the bulk of their anger upon Germany, the most powerful economy in Europe.
The European Central Bank is likely to signal on Thursday that it has done all it intends to do to fight the euro zone crisis, putting the onus back on governments after cutting interest rates and flooding the market with cash in recent months.
The euro zone is out of the emergency ward, but it may face a chronic debilitating illness rather than a rapid convalescence.
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Intel’s smaller rival, said it will sever corporate ties with Abu Dhabi’s GlobalFoundries in a bid to recover independent status as a top chip designer.
How much drinking kids and teens had seen in recent movies was linked to the chances they overdid it on alcohol themselves in a new study from six European countries.
Euro zone shoppers increased spending in January, a surprise after four months of falls but economists said a quarterly reading that smoothes over the data still showed a large decline.
The U.S. Federal prosecutors have filed papers in New Zealand seeking the extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues who are accused of criminal copyright violations.
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) has plan to cut its annual import deal with Iran by 44 percent according to the latest report.
U.S. bank Wells Fargo has drawn up plans to build up its overseas operations and wants to expand into 20 markets worldwide, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
European aerospace group EADS was considering doing without part of a development loan for its Airbus unit worth 500 million euros ($660.3 million) from the German government as a dispute escalates regarding the group moving operations from Germany, a paper reported.
Decades ago, Antonis Seitanidis' family fled Asia Minor to settle in the northern Greek town of Komotini in search of a better life.
The vain Italian Fascist and the modest, unassuming Indian ascetic got along extremely well and admired each other.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces an unexpected challenge in getting new euro-zone budget-discipline rules approved at home, after the government confirmed on Saturday the new treaty will require a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
A federal judge rejected Credit Suisse Group Inc's bid to dismiss a lawsuit by National Century Financial Enterprises bondholders that accused the Swiss bank of deceiving them about the health care finance company and missing its vast, roughly $2.9 billion fraud.
