CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels.

WASHINGTON — Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $29 billion in October, up 1.9% sequentially but down 2.5% year-over-year.

SON, THE NETHERLANDS – Neways Electronics plans to restructure its Micro Electronics division operations in Echt and China as part of a cost-cutting move.

MILWAUKEE, WI — After some dips and swells in recent years between salary increases and decreases, salaries for quality professionals are up again, this time with the largest percentage increase year-over-year since 2007, according to the American Society for Quality's 29th annual Salary Survey. 

FRAMINGHAM, MA – 2015 will be the first full year of single-digit worldwide smartphone growth, IDC predicts, citing slower demand outside North America. 

ATLANTA – UP Media Group today announced PCB West 2016 will take place Sept. 13 - 15, in Santa Clara, CA.

STAMFORD, CT -- Third-quarter worldwide server shipments grew 9.2% year-over-year, while vendor revenue increased 7.5% during the period.

ARLINGTON, VA – Mapi Foundation expects modest acceleration in US manufacturing growth over the next two years; then it is expected to decelerate, says Dan Meckstroth, Ph.D., Mapi’s vice president and chief economist.

MANAUS, BRAZIL – Cal-Comp, a subsidiary of New Kinpo Group, said it will open a new factory here.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- Platform Specialty Products today completed its previously announced acquisition of Alent, the parent company of Alpha, for  $1.9 billion.

SURABAYA, INDONESIA -- The AirAsia crash that led to the death of all 162 aboard last year was triggered by cracked solder joints on the plane's rudder control warning system, Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee said today.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – North American printed circuit board orders declined 20.5% year-over-year in October, IPC says. Year-to-date orders increased 2.1%, while orders were down 6% sequentially.