Mitsubishi Electric will add three new products to its "Diafine" industrial TFT LCD module series. The light reflectance of the new products is about 90% lower than that of their predecessors.

US stocks started the new year with a big jump on Friday as investors looked beyond yet another piece of grim economic data on hopes that a recovery is on the horizon after a disastrous 2008. Markets shrugged off a report by the Institute for Supply Management that said US factory activity fell to a 28-year low in December, showing a more severe contraction than economists had expected.