Industry

Chip maker TSMC buys stake in solar cell maker Motech

The chip giant will pay US$193 million for a 20 percent stake in Motech

Fear of Microsoft subsides in mergers and acquisitions arena

SAP planning to open up on-demand development platform

Executive: But developers won't be forced into a single programming method

House passes R&D tax credit extension

But Senate passage of the tax credit is still up in the air

Google Apps adds discussion forums

This new application will be available to users of Apps' Education and Premier editions

MySpace opens activity stream to external developers

The company will release a new set of APIs

Amazon’s Kindle winning battle, but Adobe poised to win eBook war

More than 100 publishers, book retailers and libraries use Adobe Content Server 4

Adobe bends, a little, on eBook DRM

It plans to liberalize its approach toward Digital Rights Management with eBooks

Five Twitter Features I Want Most in 2010

Twitter to host developer’s conference in San Francisco

A date for the 2010 conference, called 'Chirp,' has not been announced