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The recession is claiming another victim as electronics company Philips announced yesterday that it’s going to be forced to lose 6,000 jobs around the world and halt the share buyback program it only initiated last year. Both its lighting and consumer electronics business had been hit by the economic downturn, chief executive Gerard Kleisterlee said in a statement: "Our fourth-quarter results are a reflection of both the… Read More

General Electric's GE Global Research arm has announced the first successful demonstration of OLED lighting devices manufactured using a newspaper-like roll-to-roll manufacturing process. The development should be a major step towards getting OLED lighting devices into the mass market, since the process will dramatically lower costs to produce OLEDs and other organic electronics. The demonstration results from a research collaboration… Read More