Texas Instruments may have already controlled the largest share of the analog chip market, but this didn't stop it from offering to buy National Semiconductor for a huge sum of money about six months ago.
Acquisitions are a common thing on the IT industry, especially ever since the establishment of the paten... |
26 September 2011
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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
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HP has become fairly notorious in a surprisingly short amount of time, and its latest actions may only serve to further the confusion and stupefaction that its recent announcements regarding webOS and its PCs have caused worldwide.If anything is certain about HP, is that it will take a long time for it to live down ... |
1 September 2011
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Not long ago, it was reported that Samsung might end up acquiring the PC unit that HP apparently wants to shake off, but more recent statements claim that this is not among the company's plans.No doubt users were more than a little shocked to learn that HP, the world's greatest PC supplier, wants to spin o... |
25 August 2011
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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
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Sunnyvale-based handset vendor Palm has had a series of rather weak quarters lately, which culminated with reports regarding its 'on sale' status. While recent news on the matter pointed towards HTC Corporation and Lenovo for a possible takeover of Palm, it seems that the smartphone maker approached anothe... |
14 April 2010
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In early July, Fujitsu Siemens, one of the leading computer systems manufacturers, was said to be planning a separation, which would have also marked the end of the company's PC business. Recent reports come to support the initial story, as the two companies involved in the German-Japanese venture are allegedly ... |
31 October 2008
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Hewlett-Packard announced that it would buy services outsourcing EDS company for about $13.9 billion. The news was broken today in a joint press statement from the two companies. HP will completely buy EDS in order to strengthen its position on the market and compete with rivals such as IBM."The combination of HP and... |
13 May 2008
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If somebody decided to write a book about everything Jack Thompson did during his career as an attorney, he or she would definitely win some prizes. However, it would be sad to see a book now, with so many things happening and showing no signs of stopping. Jack Thompson is, more than anything, an attention seeker - I... |
4 March 2008
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Hitachi has announced that it has inked a purchase agreement with its former rival company Canon that will lead to a LCD panel business alliance. Hitachi has previously sold an important part of its Display Unit shares to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. who manufactures LCD TVs under the Panasonic brand.The agreem... |
28 February 2008
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Antivirus software company Trend Micro has just announced the purchase of Identum, an e-mail encryption software vendor based in the United Kingdom. The acquisition will "ensure an even safer, more secure Internet experience for the company's global customers," said Trend Micro in the press release.Identum is kn... |
26 February 2008
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Chip designer Transmeta has had quite a bad year and the third quarter revenue reached a faint $44,000, which simply drove its shareholders mad. Poor performance on the market and its faulty management lead to a catastrophic series of events that will finally render the company to bankruptcy.Riley Investment Manageme... |
8 February 2008
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It's not official, but it's from an official statement. It's not what Microsoft said but what the Redmond whale implied that gave the rumor water to grow. First there was a Microsoft executive that outlined the plans for the company to improve its online search market share from about 10 percent to abo... |
19 November 2007
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Networking equipment and general communication hardware manufacturing company 3Com will soon change hands as the company announced that it will be bought by two other companies, the Chinese Huawei Technologies, itself a communication equipment producer and the equity company Bain Capital.The deal is reported to have ... |
1 October 2007
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IBM wishes to expand its Information on Demand strategy by adding the small company Princeton Softech to its acquisition list. Princeton Softech is a company specialized in data archiving and privacy compliance monitoring software and its acquisition by IBM will lead to an increase of the giant's data management... |
4 August 2007
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