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Despite what PR nightmare the acquisition of Autonomy contributed to for HP, the deal was, in the end, sealed, as revealed by the newest press release on the latter's part. When HP sacked its previous CEO and chose Meg Whitman to take his place, it was hoped that the new leader would revert those two infamous ... |
4 October 2011
03:30 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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A number of rumors have been pairing Yahoo and AOL together as Yahoo seems in a vulnerable position for a takeover. AOL's Tim Armstrong has been, apparently, talking to a number of people about his company buying Yahoo. AOL is about eight times smaller than Yahoo in terms of market cap. A number of reports have ... |
15 October 2010
09:02 GMT |
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Emsi Software has announced today both on Twitter and through their newsletter service that they have taken over all support and development of Online Armor, the highly acclaimed firewall. The antivirus developer made the move after two years of marketing and selling of the Australian firewall to the German-speaking ... |
1 July 2010
07:39 GMT |
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Struggled mobile phone maker Palm says it is capable of staying alive on its own, even if its flagship webOS-based devices are registering slow sales on the market. Jon Rubinstein, chief executive officer, said that the company was considering the possibility of licensing its new mobile platform to other companies t... |
23 April 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm Inc. has reportedly put itself up for sale. The company is said to be already seeking for possible buyers and to be working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Frank Quattrone’s Qatalyst Partners for the move. According to a recent article on Bloomberg, people familiar wit... |
12 April 2010
02:51 GMT |
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World-leading plasma TV-maker Panasonic announced that it would be paying no less than $4.6 billion to Sanyo in order to acquire a majority stake of 50.2% of its total shares. The deal will allow Panasonic to make use of Sanyo's expertise in solar panels and rechargeable batteries, whereas its smaller rival will... |
11 December 2009
11:28 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm was rumored quite a few times before that the Finnish handset vendor Nokia would plan a takeover, and now the rumors have surfaced again. While nothing is yet official on the matter, Palm's shares went up by around 8 percent on Friday, courtesy of these rumors. “Pal... |
16 November 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has been rumored quite a few times before to be on the verge of being taken over by Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, and now the same rumors made it back to the headlines. The basis is a very simple one: RIM has seen its shares falling recently, and that would lea... |
7 November 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Certicom Corp, the security software maker, announced recently that Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, had placed a higher bid than VeriSign Inc previously did for the purchase of the software company. According to Certicom, RIM doubled its initial offer, and now it would be willing to pay C$131.1 million f... |
6 February 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Everything is crystal clear for a while now: the future of video games will be in the hands of three or four huge game developers created from mergers and buy-outs (and tender/hostile takeovers, probably). One of the latest companies that seems to have understood that is Square Enix which, ironically, was formed as a... |
20 May 2008
04:00 GMT |
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In a formal statement released yesterday, the board of directors of Take Two formally rejected the new offer for shares that Electronic Arts had put out on Friday. Because the offer is hostile, meaning that it targets individual shareholders rather than negotiate with the board of Take Two, it will continue as planne... |
22 April 2008
02:41 GMT |
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Yahoo! or no Yahoo!, Microsoft is planning to go knee-deep in web search. That should really worry the high-ranking executives at the Sunnyvale-based company, or maybe that was the whole point. MS Chairman and biggest shareholder, Bill Gates, said yesterday in a telephone interview for Reuters that acquiring Yahoo! w... |
19 February 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Yahoo's between the chisel and the hammer right now, with members of the board not agreeing on what to do next, Microsoft breathing heavily down its neck, good people being laid off because of the salary they have and, as of late, because its shareholders have started to voice out about their take on the whole s... |
13 February 2008
14:31 GMT |
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The attempt to create a viable competitor for Google that Microsoft initiated with its $31 per share offer on Friday had everybody very excited over the weekend. Many say that the length of time until something is announced is like in court: if it's a fast jury ruling, it's in favor of the accusing side. Fo... |
4 February 2008
07:06 GMT |
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The rumor that Microsoft might be taking over Yahoo has been spun round the rumor mill for far too long now and far too many times it has failed to produce an official statement or a pertinent opinion from somebody in the game. This finally happened as Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey Lindsay shed some light on the... |
15 January 2008
13:21 GMT |
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Google is moving to be the one thing we wake up in the morning to check our dreams with, as for what they mean and so on, the place to see what breakfast has less calories and which route to work is the shortest and, thanks to Street View, less jammed. With the speculations about it taking over Yell Croup Plc, the pu... |
14 January 2008
04:22 GMT |
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On Semiconductor has confirmed the rumors that alleged the company's taking over the AMIS Holdings business, for a fair amount of $915 million. Upon completion, the transaction is supposed to consolidate the ON Semi's position on both analog and power integrated circuitry producers market. "Combining On Sem... |
13 December 2007
09:35 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics has showed a drop in profit rates for this year's second quarter, which has made the company somewhat vulnerable. As if this wasn't bad enough news, the South Korean government is planning to take over Samsung's division in this country."58 financially healthy companies in which for... |
16 July 2007
03:35 GMT |
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