WINFIELD, KS -- The husband and wife team of Adam and Jill Conaway, engineering technicians from S and Y Industries, won first and third place, respectively, in the IPC Apex Expo hand soldering competition last month.

LONDON -- ITRI and T.I.C. have extended their raw mineral tracking and traceability agreement with the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ministry of Mines to a larger area of the country.

TAIPEI -- Foxconn Electronics (the trading name of Hon Hai) reported non-consolidated February revenues rose 55% year-over-year to of NT$236.6 billion (US$7.98 billion).

STAMFORD, CT — Worldwide PC shipments are on pace to grow 4.4% to 368 million units in 2012, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.