Bishop & Associates has acquired a website, buyer’s guide and four newsletters from PennWell. [ + ]

element14 has signed a global distribution deal with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. [ + ]

ProtoPlate may close the gap in prototyping for three-dimensional interconnect devices. [ + ]

Solvay and the Holst Centre have demonstrated high efficiency flexible OLED lighting tiles with a surface area of 69 cm² [ + ]

An engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas and his colleagues at the University of Utah have discovered a new method of making nanoparticles and nanofilms that could be used in developing better electronic devices, biosensors and certain types of high-powered and highly specific microscopes used for scientific research. [ + ]

Researchers have developed, what they claim to be, the first functional oxide thin films that can be used efficiently in electronics. [ + ]

Imec has released an early-version process development kit for 14 nm logic chips [ + ]

Reinhausen has appointed Westek Electronics as their Australian and New Zealand distributor. [ + ]

Pierlite UK won the contract to replace bulbs at Westminster Hall with LEDs. [ + ]

Annual revenues generated by MEMS devices will continue to rise, according to a report by Juniper Research. [ + ]

An EU-funded project aims to test solar and wind electricity distribution systems. [ + ]

Imec and Genalyte have produced a set of disposable silicon photonics biosensor chips. [ + ]

ETSI has published the first release of its machine to machine (M2M) service standards. [ + ]

The need for higher-performance batteries will create a large market for novel lithium battery electrode materials, according to a report. [ + ]

The G3-PLC protocol has been approved by the ITU as a low-frequency, OFDM-based NB-PLC standard. [ + ]