Japan

Reuters | March 30, 2011 | Chikako Mogi (Reuters) – Japanese imports of rare earths fromChina shrank further in February, sliding 36 percent from January, data from Japan’s Ministry of Finance showed on Wednesday. Imports of rare earths from China stood …

Reuters | March 28, 2011 | Gowri Jayakumar Hurt by Japan‘s devastating earthquake and tsunami, IT vendors NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd have decided to refrain from making personnel and organizational changes, previously scheduled for April 1, the Nikkei business daily reported. …

Reuters | March 28, 2011 | Ju-min Park and Isabel Reynolds * Samsung, Sumitomo in $72 mln LED wafer venture * 50/50 venture to start production from early 2012 * Samsung sees LED wafers in short supply due to strong LED …

iSupply | March 21, 2011 | Len Jelinek The Japanese earthquake has resulted in the suspension of one-quarter of the global production of silicon wafers used to make semiconductors. Manufacturing operations have stopped at Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd.’s Shirakawa facility. …

Stevenage, UK— March 23, 2011– (Virtual Press Office) —Aeroflex Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp. (NYSE:ARX), announced today that it has worked closely with NTT DOCOMO, INC. to support the successful testing, rollout, and launch of their …

Wall Street Journal | March 22, 2011 | Yoree Koh Masayoshi Son is not a member of the fearless Tokyo Fire Department’s Hyper Rescue Squad that departed Monday for the troubled northern pocket of Japan. But the famously energetic chief …

ChinaDaily | March 19, 2011 | Edmond Lococo BEIJING – Huawei Technologies Co, the world’s second-biggest maker of mobile-phone networks, said it completed its first shipment of “essential” communications equipment to Tokyo since the earthquake in Japan. Technical teams from Huawei …

AUSTIN, Texas-Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale) and Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced this week that the catastrophic earthquake in Japan has disrupted manufacturing operations for both companies, which have facilities in Japan. Soon after the disaster, prices of semiconductors for …

Qualcomm Inc. says it does not foresee any significant impact to its semiconductor supply chain after last week’s earthquake in Japan and says it shouldn’t have a problem in continuing to supply product to its customers.

Reuters | March 16, 2011 | Niklas Pollard and Tarmo Virki * Possible tech sector equivalent of Lehman Bros -analyst * Ericsson sees no material impact on Q1 sales * Alcatel-Lucent says has enough inventory for now * Chipmaker STMicro …

BBC News | March 16, 2011 Apple has postponed the launch of the iPad 2 tablet in Japan, as the country struggles to recover from the recent earthquake and tsunami. Originally planned for 25 March, the company said its launch …

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. has decided to cancel its participation in the CTIA Wireless tradeshow in the aftermath of the powerfully destructive earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11.

This week marks Twitter’s fifth birthday. Since it was first launched to the public, the micro-blogging service has noticeably changed the way we broadcast, organise and digest information.

Since last week’s catastrophic earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown triple-threat devastated large parts of northeastern Japan, many large organisations have jumped in to aid donations that will go towards helping those affected by the crisis.