President Barack Obama on Monday tapped Xerox Chief Executive Ursula Burns to help lead an education initiative aimed at helping students excel at science, technology, engineering and math.

A rebound in purchases of personal computers worldwide will lead to a 2.8 percent increase in shipments this year, driven by sales of netbooks, according to a technology research firm.

Prosecutors in California will not oppose a request by Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam to make public the criminal record of Roomy Khan, one of several people cooperating with the U.S. government's probe of its biggest hedge fund insider trading case.

Signs of a subdued U.S. economic recovery sent investors out of stocks Thursday and in search of safer assets like the dollar.

Intel Corp. is teaming with a French university and government agencies to open a research center in Paris aimed at building faster supercomputers.

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BofA Merrill Lynch lowered its 2010 growth forecast for global semiconductor industry and downgraded ten chipmakers, including Intel, turning more cautious on the group on expectations of a modest overshoot in global supply chain inventories.

(Reuters) - BofA Merrill Lynch lowered its 2010 growth forecast for global semiconductor industry and downgraded ten chipmakers, including Intel Corp <INTC.O>, turning more cautious on the group on expectations of a modest overshoot in global supply chain inventories.

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is using its $1.25 billion settlement check from rival Intel Corp. and a new $500 million bond offering to pay off $1 billion in debt.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Ombudsman rebuked European Union regulators on Wednesday for procedural errors in their antitrust probe of Intel but the censure will not affect a 1.06 billion euro ($1.58 billion) fine against the U.S. chipmaker.

The European Ombudsman rebuked European Union regulators on Wednesday for procedural errors in their antitrust probe of Intel but the censure will not affect a 1.06 billion euro ($1.58 billion) fine against the U.S. chipmaker.

Intel Corp Chief Executive Paul Otellini said on Tuesday the semiconductor industry may experience possible "pinch points" in the PC production chain as manufacturers ramp up to meet higher demand next year.

"Practical English Grammar by Correspondence" -- a 1973 tome published by the Soviet Union -- sits atop a pile of books on the librarian's desk in Macedonia's Grigor Prlichev elementary school.

The equity investing unit of computer chip maker Intel Corp. said Tuesday it has made seven new investments totaling $25 million to help foster new technologies.