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Google and Motorola are now one step closer to finalizing the proposed acquisition and merger that were announced last year.
On Monday, both the European Commission and the US Department of Justice announced that they approved of the deal.
The European Commission has announced that it had cleared under the EU Me... |
14 February 2012
06:06 GMT |
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Several months ago, Internet giant Google announced plans to purchase handset vendor Motorola Mobility, and a new step towards the completion of this deal was made.
During the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on November 17th, Motorola Mobility stockholders voted in favor of the merger with Goog... |
18 November 2011
04:18 GMT |
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Recent findings claim that the two infamous pieces of malware never actually merged into one powerful Trojan as their authors promised at some point, but now they're suspected to come as a package.
According to The Threat Post, at first, the two malicious elements didn't get along at all. Each one of the... |
15 October 2011
04:47 GMT |
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The telecommunication market in the United States is about to see a major change, as wireless carrier AT&T is gearing up for the purchase of T-Mobile USA, just as it announced a while ago. The deal between the two is estimated at $39 billion, and should result in the unification of the two largest GSM networks in th... |
13 June 2011
11:12 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier AT&T has filed with the Federal Communications Commission its Public Interest Statement regarding the previously announced acquisition of T-Mobile USA.Those to benefit the most from the merger of the two companies would be end-users, the carrier claims, noting that one of the results of this tra... |
22 April 2011
07:20 GMT |
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On Monday, wireless carrier Sprint has released an official statement on its position on the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. The operator does not agree with the AT&T’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA.The transaction was not closed as of yet, as it still requires the approval of the Department ... |
29 March 2011
02:47 GMT |
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One of the latest mobile phones that would land at T-Mobile USA with support for the wireless carrier's 4G network would be the T-Mobile G2x from LG, which went official only a few days ago during the CTIA Wireless expo in Florida.The mobile phone will come with support for the enhanced HSPA+ network that T-Mob... |
23 March 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Security researchers from RSA have confirmed that the SpyEye author is working on a "super trojan" by merging features from ZeuS into his own creation, sometimes by copying entire chunks of code.When rumors first appeared last year that SpyEye and ZeuS will be merged together, after Slavik gave his source code to Har... |
9 February 2011
13:09 GMT |
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Security researchers from McAfee warn that the first crimware toolkit to result from the ZeuS-SpyEye merger is now available for purchase on the underground market.Earlier this year the security community was surprised to learn of rumors that ZeuS and SpyEye, two rival threats in the cybercriminal world, would be joi... |
14 January 2011
08:52 GMT |
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AOL is certainly not the giant it once was, but it's looking to reinvent itself and move forward in a market dominated by younger players. One possibility being analyzed is spinning off the legacy dial-up business and finding a way to merge with Yahoo, another stagnant, former giant of the web. Rumors about AOL&... |
6 December 2010
06:19 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro claim that SpyEye's development was place on hold and that some of the trojan's features are being ported to the ZeuS crimeware.This means that previous suspicions according to which the two malware programs were going to be merged into one, were likely true.A month ago... |
25 November 2010
11:57 GMT |
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There are signs on underground Internet forums suggesting that the development of the notorious ZeuS trojan has stopped and the code base will be merged with that of it's biggest rival, SpyEye.It seems that ZeuS, the most successful information stealing trojan to date and the weapon of choice for cyberfraudsters... |
25 October 2010
13:39 GMT |
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The CEOs of Microsoft and Adobe reportedly met to talk about a possible merger to combat Apple. An Adobe spokesperson said that the two companies do meet from time to time, but declined to confirm whether Apple was the topic of their last discussion.eWeek picked up on a piece by The New York Times which spreads the w... |
9 October 2010
08:28 GMT |
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After many days of matching each other's bids, HP and Dell have finally finished the race to acquire 3PAR, a supplier of virtualized storage technologies, and it appears that HP has already entered a definitive merger agreement, the transaction having already been approved by both sides.Dell has been matching H... |
3 September 2010
02:56 GMT |
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UK wireless carriers Orange and T-Mobile are expected to become a single entity on April 1, the latest news around the Internet suggest. Moreover, the two companies are also said to plan merging their direct and indirect B2B sales channels by September, yet the two will become one single legal company as soon as Apr... |
19 March 2010
10:42 GMT |
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The European Commission announced on Monday the approval of the proposed merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK, the UK subsidiaries of France Télécom's (FT) and Deutsche Telekom's (DT). The EC also revealed that the decision has been taken upon the recently proposed give up of spectrum in the 1... |
2 March 2010
04:44 GMT |
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UK wireless carriers Orange and T-Mobile announced in November last year plans to merge their operations in a new entity, and it seems that they have finally received green light from regulatory commissions. Both Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) have reportedly announced that they would not further investi... |
23 February 2010
10:40 GMT |
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UK wireless carriers Orange and T-Mobile announced last year plans to merge their operations through the forming of a 50:50 joint venture, yet it seems that their plans are still scrutinized by the Office of Fair Trading, which believes that the joint-venture might affect the competition on the market. The OFT is re... |
4 February 2010
05:50 GMT |
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We're used to seeing this kind of conversations between Eminem and Mariah Carey, but it seems that the Oracle-Sun deal has stirred up some opposite opinions between Oracle's management and MySQL's founder, Finnish developer Ulf Michael “Monty” Widenius. After launching a stern and stingy ca... |
23 December 2009
02:39 GMT |
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One of the most successful start-ups in recent years, Ontela, has agreed to join forces with the Internet's biggest photo storage service, PhotoBucket. The new company will be known as PhotoBucket Corporation and will be run by Ontela's chief financial officer, Tom Munro. He will be president of the new ent... |
18 December 2009
10:09 GMT |
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Sprint Nextel Corporation announced on Friday that it had managed to successfully complete the tender offer for all common stock outstanding shares of iPCS, Inc. According to the company, its offer was made through a Sprint Nextel wholly-owned subsidiary, Ireland Acquisition Corporation, and has expired on November... |
28 November 2009
13:41 GMT |
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Sprint Nextel Corp. announced on Wednesday that it had received all of the required regulatory approvals to complete the already-announced purchase of regulatory iPCS, Inc. According to the company, the Federal Communications Commission approved on November 24 the “transfer of the spectrum license held by a sub... |
26 November 2009
13:11 GMT |
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There are quite a number of notebook manufacturers worldwide and the amount of sales each of them scores yearly defines its success and income. Currently, Asustek holds less than 5% of the shares of the laptop market and is ranked as the seventh largest notebook PC brand. However, it seems that, according to a Chines... |
16 November 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Code and application developers are quite acquainted to the “SVN” term. It stands for Subversion, an open source versioning control system used for years in application development. After being quite some time in the making, CollabNet, the main developer and the primary corporate sponsor of the project, h... |
6 November 2009
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According to the latest news around the Internet, T-Mobile US might be interested in acquiring Sprint Nextel, the third largest carrier in the country. UK-based newspaper The Telegraph reports that Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's parent company, might submit a bid for Sprint, and that it has already called banking ... |
14 September 2009
09:53 GMT |
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It seems that T-Mobile UK might have finally found a new family, as the company announced today a merger with Orange UK. The struggled Deutsche Telekom subsidiary has been reportedly put on sale by its parent company, with all other three major carriers in the UK interested in its acquisition: Orange, O2 and Vodafone... |
8 September 2009
02:26 GMT |
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Oracle is moving ahead with its acquisition of IT company Sun Microsystems but it may hit a few snags along the way. Rumors have popped up that the EU is concerned about anti-trust issues concerning the merger and is investigating if the deal could drive up prices in the market and limit competition. The Wall Stree... |
8 August 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced on Wednesday having completed the final stage of its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI. Following this stage, the company has decided to take a series of measures to optimize its operations in order to deliver industry-leading performance on the graphi... |
7 May 2009
11:05 GMT |
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Telefonica Deutschland and O2 recently announced plans to unite their business-to-business operations, while also putting together the operation of their mobile communications and landline infrastructures to form a common body that would be called Telefonica O2 Germany, which would be able to provide convergent offer... |
17 April 2009
10:02 GMT |
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According to the latest details, IBM could back away from the negations it was reportedly undergoing with the board of directors at Sun Microsystems. Apparently, Sun's board rejected the formal offer delivered by IBM on Saturday, also sending a notice that the company didn't want to continue its exclusive n... |
6 April 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Japanese developers Tecmo and Koei announced in September that they would begin the merging process between their two companies. Tecmo, the firm behind massive hits like Dead or Alive 4 or Ninja Gaiden, had been searching for a partner for quite some time, but declined, at the time, the offer from Square Enix for a t... |
16 October 2008
03:03 GMT |
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Take-Two has had some quite troubled times lately. Before launching Grand Theft Auto IV, they weren't doing all that great in terms of sales and profit. BioShock really did save them in 2007 and the company, although confident in GTA IV, did seek out a long term solution. Luckily, Electronic Arts, one of the bi... |
3 October 2008
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It is widely believed that every galaxy in the universe hosts a supermassive black hole at its core, with a mass ranging between ten thousand and a few billion times that of the Sun. Marc Sigar from the University of Arkansas claims that with the help of images provided by the Hubble Space Telescope, he and his team ... |
3 June 2008
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Game Factory Interactive, one of the best known Russian game developers and publishers, has started a merger process with Russobit-M, resulting in an annual revenue prediction of $45 million and 350 people. The newly formed company aims to further expand its market in Russia by developing MMO games and trying their l... |
21 May 2008
02:47 GMT |
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Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang vehemently slashed the rumors about a possible Nvidia - VIA merger and said that his company had no interest in either investing in or buying the low-voltage CPU manufacturer. The buyout rumors first emerged in early March and they gained credibility as both companies entered talks ab... |
12 May 2008
04:07 GMT |
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The Antennae Galaxy is one of the closest and most studied galaxy mergers in the universe. It consists of two gravitationally interacting galaxies dubbed NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 that collided with one another a couple of hundred million years into the past. New observations made by researchers from the European Souther... |
9 May 2008
11:03 GMT |
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It has been theorized some time ago that supermassive black holes may be ejected from their galaxy during a galactic collision. However, until now such event remained unobserved. When two or more galaxies merge into a single one their supermassive black holes may also merge, albeit the energy released during such a p... |
30 April 2008
02:52 GMT |
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The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, has given the all clear in regard to the attempted merger between Activision and Vivendi Games, part of the Vivendi Universal conglomerate.The Commission has been investigating the merger on the grounds of its possible impact on the economic competi... |
17 April 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Storage specialist EMC has just announced that it has completed the acquisition of its rival company Iomega for $213 million. The acquisition is more than a merger: it's the end of the Zip-drive era, that almost terminated the "obsolete" floppy disk.Zip drives are a big chunk of history, and readers that have be... |
10 April 2008
11:15 GMT |
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Graphics specialist Nvidia is allegedly in talks with chipset and CPU manufacturer VIA about a possible acquisition. According to some sources quoted by the Taiwanese tech website Digitimes, Nvidia has already made VIA a merger offer, but they did not reach an agreement on financial grounds.According to the same sour... |
18 March 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Take-Two Interactive executive chairman, Strauss Zelnick, has claimed that his current business model for the company would be to remain independent. An offer like that from Electronic Arts, valued at around 2 billion dollars, would not be sufficient for a buyout and interest from other companies has not yet material... |
6 March 2008
03:42 GMT |
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Nvidia has just finalized the acquisition of physics processing card manufacturer Ageia and seems to get ready for yet another merger that will change the IT industry forever. Technology analyst Doug Fredman has estimated that Nvidia is secretly gearing up in order to buy its competitor AMD. Although the scenario mig... |
14 February 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Yahoo! turned down Microsoft and is heading to a world of pain, should their shares value start dropping again. The past week, the Sunnyvale-based company and the team of advisers from Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, that it hired for consultancy, have been trying hard to find an alternative that would set the shi... |
11 February 2008
06:56 GMT |
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We know it's out there, but we can't see it because it doesn't emit light. So how do you find a dark matter cloud? Well, if you consider the fact that most of gravitational fields produced in the universe are associated with dark matter existence, then the problem is solved. Astrophysicist Catherine He... |
11 January 2008
05:55 GMT |
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In light of a breaking piece of news this weekend saying that Vivendi has bought a majority stake in Activision, not changing the latter's status much, Blizzard President and CEO Mike Morhaime had a little chat with blokes over at 1UP.com, revealing more details on the most important merger occurring in the vide... |
3 December 2007
06:23 GMT |
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Yes, in what looks to be the merger of the century, Activision and Vivendi (owners of Blizzard Entertainment) have announced their agreement to combine Vivendi Games with the aforementioned company, giving birth to Activision Blizzard, who will continue to operate as a public company.Vivendi will own some 52% owners... |
3 December 2007
03:26 GMT |
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Acer has recently posted a $90 million profit for the 2007 third quarter and it's beginning to take control of the computer market because it is very likely that the company could now be the third largest computer manufacturer in the world. Acer's recent growth was generated, in part, by the purchase of Gat... |
31 October 2007
06:52 GMT |
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Acer announced today its intentions of buying the hardware manufacturing company Gateway, the fourth largest computer producer and vendor in the United States. The definitive agreement between Acer and Gateway will lead to a better market position in the U.S. for Acer and it will create a multi brand company with rev... |
27 August 2007
08:21 GMT |
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