|
Home > News > Tags > Merger
|
|
30
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 |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
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
11:12 GMT |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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
03:25 GMT |
|
|
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
03:00 GMT |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
