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Yahoo is still in turmoil after ousting CEO Carol Bartz. The company has been in trouble for years, but the move opened up the question of its future once again. While the board is putting together a list of options, it has tried to downplay the possibility of a sale.
The board is looking at other alternatives to ... |
15 September 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Google's move to acquire Motorola came as quite a shock to most people. It was a bold move and an unexpected one from the software company. Now we have a few more details on how the whole deal went down, how the negotiations carried out and even details like the fact that Google outbid itself just o make sure it... |
14 September 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Many buyouts have occurred in the IT industry, like they have been happening in all other segments of the industry as a whole, and the newest one to be announced is the deal sealed by Broadcom and NetLogic.
Broadcom already has an extensive collection of wired and wireless communications chips, but its portfolio ... |
12 September 2011
07:56 GMT |
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Yahoo has been having quite a week. After firing CEO Carol Bartz, the company is examining its options and has hired consultants to come up with a path forward. Perfect timing for the perennial AOL acquisition/merger rumor to pop up again.
Right on cue, the possibility of an AOL/Yahoo merger is being discussed aga... |
10 September 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Acquisitions happen all the time in the IT industry, the same way they happen everywhere really, and the most recent one was just completed by PC maker Dell.
It was some time ago that Dell said it would buy all the assets of Force10 , world-class provider of data center networking for service provider and enterpr... |
27 August 2011
05:56 GMT |
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Not quite the resounding acquisition someone might be expecting, but Reddit indeed made its first move on another business. The company bought redditgifts.com, a Secret Santa project started by two of its own users after a community discussion.RedditGifts started back in 2009, after public talks on Reddit requested a... |
24 August 2011
10:39 GMT |
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With all the news about companies reshaping their businesses and sealing acquisition deals, ARM decided to come out and clearly state its decision to remain a private IT player.The recent revelation that HP is going to spin off or sell its whole PC business seems to have started something akin to a chain reaction.It... |
24 August 2011
02:49 GMT |
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HP only just announced that it intends to pass on its PC business to someone else, or spin it off in an independent company, and already rumors are pinning names to prospective buyers, in this case Samsung.The revelation HP made during its most recent conference call with financial analysts are among the type that l... |
23 August 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Soon, Motorola Mobility will be part of Google, the two announced on Monday. The Internet giant agreed to acquire the mobile phone maker for $12.5 billion, as part of a deal that already saw the green light from their board of directors and which is now subject to regulatory approvals. The mobile industry already re... |
16 August 2011
04:16 GMT |
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Google has announced that it will acquire Motorola Mobility, mostly to strengthen its Android business. It's the biggest deal Google has done, by far, it will pay $12.5 billion if it goes through, and it's a very bold move for the company since it has never been in the hardware making business before.Howeve... |
16 August 2011
03:30 GMT |
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In a move aimed at strengthening the Android ecosystem, Internet giant Google announced plans to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc., the popular mobile phone maker. The two have entered an agreement according to which Google would pay $40.00 per share in cash for Motorola Mobility, which represents a premium ... |
16 August 2011
01:58 GMT |
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Facebook bought digital book maker Push Pop Press. The company only has one book behind it, but the book, which is more of an application than it is an ebook, made quite an impression on anyone who saw it in action.
Unfortunately, that's going to be the first and last book Push Pop Press publishes, as the tea... |
3 August 2011
05:04 GMT |
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With how things have been getting difficult in the memory industry, one would expect some of those involved to contemplate retirement, but it looks like at least some companies, in this case Samsung, are still looking for opportunities to expand.Those following the happenings on the IT market may or may not know of ... |
3 August 2011
04:03 GMT |
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Amazon announced yesterday that it plans to acquire UK-based outfit The Book Depository. Because of the nature of the deal, the two companies are two of the biggest book sellers in the UK, the Office of Fair Trading is now asking for comments from interested parties on whether the deal should be allowed to pass or no... |
5 July 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Amazon is already a top-tier online store, but it looks like it felt it could do with an expansion in terms of how many books it has to offer and where, perhaps even enabling an acceleration in the expansion of its digital e-book collection.E-books have been selling quite well over the past year, much to the detrime... |
5 July 2011
04:47 GMT |
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It looks like a certain financial transaction that the world's prime supplier of CPUs was seeking, and which had been put on hold a while ago, has finally been approved by the Federal Trade Commission.
Intel seems to decide on buying companies quite often, though this is hardly surprising for such a large-sc... |
25 June 2011
06:20 GMT |
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Google has acquired HTPC/DVR software maker Sage TV, as announced over the weekend, for an undisclosed sum. The company, which has been around since 2002, seems like a good fit for Google TV, but neither Google nor Sage TV have commented on what their plans are going forward."As the media landscape continues to evolv... |
20 June 2011
04:01 GMT |
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Google has confirmed its intentions of buying Admeld, an online advertising startup. While it hasn't provided a price, Google has explained where Admeld fits into the online ad landscape. What's more, in its own blog post, Admeld said that the two companies will remain independent while regulators work out ... |
14 June 2011
03:40 GMT |
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Facebook is building up a huge team of talented people and, if it can't get them to join, it simply buys the entire company, like it just did with Sofa, a software design company from Amsterdam.
Sofa has announced that the entire team will be moving to Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto and also said ... |
10 June 2011
09:11 GMT |
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PostRank, a company focusing on social data analytics, engagement and, now to a lesser degree, content discovery, has been acquired by Google. The company hasn't said what it plans to do with its latest acquisition but it will likely integrate the technology into its Analytics product. The existing products and ... |
4 June 2011
05:21 GMT |
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It appears that the many product launches at Computex 2011 aren't all that is happening on the IT market, as Lenovo appears to have taken yet another step forward in its plan to expand its business, this time by acquiring a certain German company.Lenovo can very well be said to be one of, if not the fastest-gro... |
2 June 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Video game publisher Take Two has announced that it has extended the contract agreements it has with key personal from Rockstar Games that are implicated in the development of the Grand Theft Auto franchise and of Western hit Red Dead Redemption and at least one video game analyst believes that this could actually ma... |
26 May 2011
10:09 GMT |
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It's finally official, Twitter has announced that it has acquired TweetDeck, maker of the popular Twitter client of the same name. No price was given, but the companies did say that they plan to continue to support and develop TweetDeck as is and will position the tool as something for companies, professionals a... |
26 May 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Google has acquired the team behind the Sparkbuy comparison shopping site. Sparkbuy was barely six months old and offered a way for users to narrow down their searches for a new laptop or other gadgets based on some clear and intuitive criteria. The site has been shut down, but the three-person team will start workin... |
24 May 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The latest and, hopefully, last rumor about Twitter's TweetDeck acquisition is that it's finally been completed. Twitter has bought TweetDeck for $40 million in cash and stock, somewhat lower than the $50 million that's been rumored in the past. The company still hasn't confirmed anything, but the... |
24 May 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Reports haven't really been hinting at Barnes and Noble wanting to get bought off, but it looks like a certain company does want to acquire the book seller, or at least 70% of it.Barnes and Noble is known to be the biggest book seller in the United States, and it looks like this status has drawn the attention o... |
21 May 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Software giant CA Technologies, originally known as Computer Associates, has sold its antivirus unit to venture capital firm Updata Partners which will operate it as a standalone company.The new company will be provisionally called Total Defense, Inc, after CA's primary antivirus product, and will be established... |
17 May 2011
13:46 GMT |
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Since the Tegra 2 has been proving to be such a promising product, NVIDIA has decided to acquire the means necessary to integrate more features into it, hence its decision to make an acquisition of its own.With all the company acquisition going on, especially on the storage industry, it isn't such a shock to le... |
9 May 2011
10:26 GMT |
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Twitter is said to have acquired TweetDeck, though the deal still hasn't been confirmed. The company paid up to $50 million for the app maker, in cash and stock, and the deal is expected to be completed and announced in the next week or so.Rumors of the TweetDeck acquisition surfaced a couple of weeks ago, somew... |
3 May 2011
04:30 GMT |
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PayPal is eBay's shining star, but, even as it posts record revenue, the payments company is facing tough competition, especially on the mobile front. It's own efforts in the emerging market haven't been spectacular so far, but PayPal is looking to change that, partially through its latest acquisition ... |
29 April 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has acquired IntoNow, a 'TV check-in' startup which enables users to discover what show they're currently watching but also 'check-in,' to show it off to their friends. The price hasn't been disclosed, but is rumored to be between $20 million to $30 million, w... |
26 April 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Philips may be one of the oldest TV makers in history, but it looks like history alone is not enough to keep it in the race now that its HDTV division is losing more than it is making.It is a common thing on the IT industry for a company to shut down or sell business ventures when they happen to no longer fit with t... |
18 April 2011
09:01 GMT |
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As far as rumors on the IT market go, some are more wild than others, but a recent one involving Samsung may actually have something to it, considering how things have been going on the storage industry.Samsung is a company that deals in a wide variety of products and technologies, mobile, CE (consumer electronics) ... |
18 April 2011
02:40 GMT |
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A few months shy of a year since being announced, the Google - ITA acquisition has finally been approved by the US Department of Justice. For a while, it looked like this would be the big Google acquisition that will be challenged but it did not happen. Instead, Google agreed to some quite stringent conditions that r... |
11 April 2011
05:40 GMT |
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It isn't very often that multi-billion dollar transactions are carried out on the IT industry, or any industry for that matter, but announcements definitely get made when they do, as it happened with Texas Instruments and National Semiconductor.Although small transactions and licensing agreements happen all the... |
5 April 2011
05:33 GMT |
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EMC Corporation, a large manufacturer of storage and networking equipment, has acquired NetWitness, a company selling network security analysis appliances, in order to expand the portfolio of its RSA Security subsidiary.RSA Security is a reputed information security vendor whose encryption products are used by thousa... |
5 April 2011
02:29 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility, Inc. has just announced that it agreed to purchase Dreampark, a leading IPTV software provider based in Norrköping, Sweden. The handset vendor notes that the deal is expected to be finalized sometime during the second quarter of the ongoing year, but did not disclose specif... |
24 March 2011
04:12 GMT |
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It seems that the latest episode in Intel's struggle to gain a foothold on the mobile market has taken the form of a new acquisition, that of Silicon Hive, a private company based in the Netherlands.
For quite some time, Intel has been seeking better means of entering the mobile electronics market, which is ... |
18 March 2011
03:49 GMT |
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It seems that Intel is definitely looking to expand on the mobile front as it chose to make a step forward on the software side of things by acquiring a certain private company based in Cairo, Egypt.On any industry, the easiest way to expand in a certain area, or to gain the resources needed for a certain step, prov... |
14 March 2011
08:59 GMT |
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In an interesting but perhaps not entirely surprising move, Google has penalized Beat that Quote in the search results less than 24 hours after acquiring the company. The price comparison site was found to be in violation of Google guidelines, using shady practices to prop up its pages in the search results.After the... |
9 March 2011
07:57 GMT |
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In a rather surprising move, Google has acquired Zynamics, a German company which develops malware analysis and reverse engineering products.The announcement was made on the Zynamics blog by the company's founder and CEO Thomas Dullien, a renowned security researcher who is better known in the security industry ... |
2 March 2011
09:58 GMT |
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It appears that one of the more troublesome acquisition of the past few years has finally been completed, that being Intel's buying of the very well known security software developer McAfee.When a company decided to try and acquire a stake or complete ownership of another, the procedures are usually fairly stan... |
1 March 2011
04:23 GMT |
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It appears that not all plans of acquisition these days are getting carried all the way to completion, as a certain decision on Elpida's part regarding an aspect of the DRAM industry seems poised to end in failure.Some consumers may be aware of the borderline dismal situation on the DRAM market, at least as far... |
28 February 2011
10:26 GMT |
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The proposed ITA acquisition has dragged on for ages now, as the DOJ investigates whether Google's plans are anti-competitive. And, with authorities seemingly bent on getting something on the search giant, after a few narrow escapes, it looks like this is the deal that will get Google into trouble. That is, unle... |
25 February 2011
14:15 GMT |
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There are many rumors always running rampant on the IT industry but the most recent one in regards to the CPU and PC market seems to imply a fairly unlikely arrangement that may or may not be made between Dell and AMD. Advanced Micro Devices seems to be going through a really rough period lately, what with all the m... |
15 February 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Google, or rather YouTube, is reportedly close to buying Next New Networks, a company producing original web video content as well as distributing videos created by others. NNN is responsible for some of the most popular regular series in YouTube and some of the more popular individual videos. YouTube wants to encour... |
11 February 2011
06:56 GMT |
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Tencent, the largest Chinese internet company, has acquired Riot Games, an US-based game developer. Tencent is said to have paid about $400 million for its majority stake in the company which values the game maker at $472 million. It's one of the biggest investments by a Chinese web company in the US."We shared ... |
5 February 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Intel has long been looking for a way to make a serious incursion into the smartphone business, and it seems its most recent acquisition may help it in that regard, meaning that ARM may have a fight on its hands.ARM has been the more or less undisputed supplier of mobile processors for quite a few years already, whi... |
2 February 2011
04:58 GMT |
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It appears that one of the biggest acquisitions of the past two years is about to be completed, though Intel seems to have found that it will have to abide by a certain condition in exchange for the EU's approval. Some time ago, the entire IT industry raised at least an eyebrow upon learning of Intel's pla... |
28 January 2011
09:05 GMT |
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Google has notched another acquisition on its belt, the company bought SayNow, a startup focusing on calls and voice messaging services. No financial details have been disclosed nor have future plans. The SayNow team will be working with the existing Google Voice team, but it's unclear if the product will be int... |
26 January 2011
05:13 GMT |
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