DAVIS, Calif (Reuters) – Violent confrontations between police and protesters at two University of California campuses have drawn a new cadre of students into the Occupy Wall Street movement and unleashed what some historians call the biggest surge in campus activism since the 1960s.

While Occupy Wall Street protesters have a broad set of grievances that include income inequality and perceived corporate greed, many students have more specific concerns: soaring tuition, campus budget cuts, and fear of heavy student loan debt and lack of job opportunities upon graduation.

DAVIS, Calif (Reuters) – More than 1,000 demonstrators rallied at a University of California campus on Monday to protest police use of pepper-spray on students in an incident captured on video footage circulated widely on television and the Internet.

The incident last Friday, which led to suspensions of the campus police chief and two officers, thrust the normally quiet, conservative and largely apolitical UC Davis campus to the forefront of anti-Wall Street “Occupy” protests nationwide.

DAVIS, Calif (Reuters) – Over 1,000 demonstrators rallied at a University of California campus on Monday to protest the pepper-praying of students by police, a clash captured in video footage circulated widely on television and the Internet.

The incident, which led to suspensions of the campus police chief and two officers, has thrust the normally quiet, conservative and largely apolitical UC Davis campus to the forefront of anti-Wall Street “Occupy” protests nationwide.

By Noel Randewich

(Reuters) – Long-time Rambus investors licked their wounds and pondered their loyalty on Thursday after a crushing legal defeat that underscores the risks companies face when they rely heavily on litigation.

Retiree Jim Rockwell lost 80 percent of his savings on Wednesday when Rambus was defeated in a $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Chip gear maker Applied
Materials Inc gave a cautious quarterly revenue
outlook and warned it expects to be affected by a tough
economy.

Economic uncertainty in the United States and Europe has
hurt demand for consumer electronics in recent months, leading
many chip manufacturers to put expansion plans on hold.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Rambus Inc lost a $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against Micron Technology Inc and Hynix Semiconductor Inc, erasing more than half of the chipmaker’s value as investors abandoned its stock.

The verdict, which sent Rambus shares tumbling by 60.6 percent and boosted those of Micron by 23.4 percent, came on Wednesday after a three-month trial in state court and more than eight weeks of jury deliberations.

By Noel Randewich and Dan Levine

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Police moved in early on Monday and cleared out anti-Wall Street protesters from a downtown Oakland plaza, arresting 33 people but avoiding the sort of clashes that marked a previous attempt to shut down the Occupy Oakland camp.

Several dozen officers dressed in riot gear and carrying batons descended on the square shortly after dawn, but took a less aggressive approach than in a similar operation on Oct. 25 and were met with less resistance from demonstrators.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14 (Reuters) – The global PC industry,
already struggling against the growing popularity of tablets
and other mobile devices, is now bracing for a potentially
severe shortage of hard drives in 2012.

Wall Street, fearing the worst, has slashed revenue and
margin forecasts for Dell and Hewlett Packard
in the wake of severe flooding in Thailand, which yields a
quarter of the world’s hard drives. Some analysts warn that
estimates might have to be reduced further as the full extent
of the damage to Western Digital and other storage
manufacturers is determined.

, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Police moved in early
on Monday and cleared out anti-Wall Street protesters from
Oakland’s City Hall plaza, arresting 33 people but avoiding the
sort of clashes that marked a previous attempt to shut down the
Occupy Oakland camp.

Several dozen officers dressed in riot gear and carrying
batons descended on the square shortly after dawn, but took a
less aggressive approach than in a similar operation on Oct. 25
and were met with less resistance from demonstrators.