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What Dying Industry? The PC Gaming Alliance Interview, Part One (PC World via Yahoo! News) - PC gaming is dying, PC gaming is alive and well. If you're a PC gamer, you've heard both sentiments and repeatedly, like a couple of sparring dolls with interminable pull-strings. Recent punditry pegs PC gaming as an industry in decline, but the reverse is in fact true according to the PC Gaming Alliance, a group of key industry publishers doing their best to bring absent perspective to widely ...

Taiwan Faces Mounting Pressure to Scrap Chip Industry Rescue (Bloomberg) - April 15 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan’s state-led semiconductor venture is under fire by lawmakers, raising pressure for the government to abandon its chip-industry revival plan and let companies weather through record losses on their own.

Dairy industry sees less-gassy future for cows (AP via Yahoo! News) - The U.S. dairy industry wants to engineer the "cow of the future" to pass less gas, a project aimed at cutting the industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.

The Student Loan Industry Pushes Back (Washington Post) - With the Obama administration proposing to overhaul the programs a majority of American students use to finance their college education, the student loan industry is fighting back.

Holden hits back at industry forecast (Sky News Australia) - An auto industry observer is indulging in shameless self-promotion in sounding the death knell of the Australian car manufacturing industry, Holden says.

Drop: Tourism industry facing grim outlook (News.com.au Travel) - THE tourism industry faces its direst outlook in two decades, with fears the forecasted drop in inbound tourists could be optimistic.

Earnings Outlook: Nokia's first-quarter results to set tone for industry (Market Watch) - Nokia Corp., the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, on Thursday is expected to report a sharp drop in handset shipments in the first quarter but an unprecedented lack of visibility throughout the industry means no one can safely predict how much of a hit sales and margins may have taken.

German biotech industry and researchers kick back (SeedQuest) - In reaction to the announcement of Agriculture Minister Aigner that she was considering a cultivation ban for MON 810 corn varieties and to the vote of Environment Minister Gabriel supporting the cultivation bans in Austria and Hungary, the German biotech industry, researchers and other agricultural organizations have written public letters to the ministers with copies to Chancellor Merkel, ...

IAEA: Economic crisis not to change drivers of nuclear power industry (People's Daily) - Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yury Sokolov said on Tuesday that the economic crisis would not change the driver for the development of the nuclear power industry. He told a briefing meeting at IAEA headquarters here that although "the economic crisis will definitely affect the nuclear industry," it "cannot change drivers." Sokolov said that the ...

Interview: Management problems, retiree burden, financial crisis set back U.S. auto industry, expert says (People's Daily) - Management problems, the burden of retirees and the financial crisis has caused the U.S. auto industry to lag behind its Japanese and European competitors, an expert said. "There are a number of management problems that we have witnessed in the last 20 years," Kristin Dziczek, a senior project manager at the Center for Automotive Research, a non-profit research organization, told Xinhua in an ...