Supermassive Black Holes Make Galactic Arms Wrap Tighter
	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 established a relationship between the mass of the central supermassive black hole and the arms wrapped around spiral galaxie ... [read more >>]
	03 June 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GFI and Russobit-M Merger Looking for New Market Segments
	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 ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia - VIA Alliance, Denied by Company's CEO
	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 ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Antennae Galaxies Draw Closer to Us
	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 Southern Observatory with the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 revealed that in fact the pas ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 11:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Colossal Black Hole Seen Drifting Away from Home Galaxy
	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 process would throw the merger out of its home world. "We have observed the pre-merger stages of black holes. But we h ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

European Union Clear Activision and Vivendi Games Merger
	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 th ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

EMC Zips Iomega in Buyout Deal
	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 begun their IT quest a while ago should remember the magnetic cartridge that allowed them to store the ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 11:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Pitches at Processor Business, Gears Up for VIA Takeover
	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. Accord ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Take Two's Zelnick Proud of His Work
	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 A ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2008, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Analysts: Should Nvidia Take Over AMD?
	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 Nvid ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AOL Merger, the Solution to Yahoo!’s Problem?
	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 ship’s sails in the wind’s direction once again. One option that they have considered is that of a merger with Tim ... [read more >>]
	11 February 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Newly Discovered Dark Matter Clouds Reveal Violent Galactic Interactions
	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 Heymans from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver used more than 80 separate images provided by the Hu ... [read more >>]
	11 January 2008, 05:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Activision-Blizzard Merger - Full Details Disclosed by Blizzard President
	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 ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Activision Becomes Activision Blizzard
	Yes, in what looks to be the merger of the century, Activision and Vivendi (owners of Blizzard Entertainment) hav ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 03:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Declares Profit
	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 Gateway and PackardBell earlier this year. It is known that the company paid $710 million for Gateway but at the same time has g ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 06:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Wants Gateway
	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 revenues that top $15 billion and unit shipments in excess of 20 million per year. In order to complete the purchas ... [read more >>]
	27 August 2007, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia