TOKYO -- Japanese semiconductor equipment makers reported orders jumped 22% in May. It was the third straight month of growth, suggesting demand is returning.

MINNEAPOLIS -- CyberOptics founder and chairman Steven K. Case was killed last night when the small plane he was piloting crashed while trying to land at a suburban Minneapolis airport.

HONG KONG -- Eighty-nine percent of mainland China's electronics component distributors expect revenue to grow in 2009, forecasting an average increase of 13%; while 55% of mainland China electronics manufacturers surveyed said the economic downturn has had little or no impact on their business.

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.