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Article | 5/02/2013 Former Atari CEO bids to save his old gaming company from bankruptcy
Former Atari Interactive CEO Frédéric Chesnais has decided to take a 25.23% stake in the company in a bid to save it from bankruptcy, Atari announced ...
Article | 5/02/2013 Japan's KDDI invests in UK-based taxi hailing startup
Hailo, the U.K.-based developer of taxi-hailing mobile apps, has landed fresh investment from KDDI, one of Japan's largest mobile operators.
Article | 25/01/2013 AT&T to buy Verizon spectrum for $1.9 billion
AT&T will buy mobile spectrum in the 700MHz band from Verizon Communications for US$1.9 billion, AT&T said Friday.
Article | 23/01/2013 VMware takes a $30 million interest in Puppet
Virtualization software provider VMware has invested US$30 million in Puppet Labs, which makes a widely used, open-source operations management softwa...
Article | 17/01/2013 Japan's Softbank sells two-thirds of recent eAccess acquisition
Japan's Softbank has sold off a large portion of a local carrier it acquired just weeks ago, as it looked to assuage fears over its expanded control o...
Article | 4/01/2013 Cisco and NXP invest in connected car technology company
Cisco Systems and NXP Semiconductors have both invested in connected car equipment vendor Cohda Wireless, as they look to make the Internet of things ...
Article | 31/12/2012 Report predicts wave of tech divestitures in 2013
A number of signs suggest that next year will see a surge in tech companies selling off assets and product lines for both financial and strategic reas...
Article | 21/12/2012 Foxconn pays $200M for 9 percent stake in action camera company GoPro
Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn Electronics said it could integrate more camera features into its devices after making a US$200 million investme...
Article | 11/12/2012 CIA's venture arm backs mobile banking, NFC developer
In-Q-Tel, the technology investment arm of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will invest in Tyfone, a small developer of mobile banking, ide...
Article | 10/12/2012 Struggling Japan chipmaker Renesas to raise US$1.8 billion
Japanese chip giant Renesas is seeking a US$1.8 billion capital injection to invest in new manufacturing techniques. The world's largest microcontroll...
Article | 4/12/2012 Qualcomm to invest up to US$120 million in Japan's Sharp
Qualcomm has agreed to invest up to US$120 million in struggling Japanese firm Sharp, with the two companies to work together to develop low-power dis...
Article | 15/11/2012 Startups reportedly flocking to SAP's HANA in-memory database
Some 20 startups have inked commercial deals with SAP that will see them run production applications with the HANA in-memory database on Amazon Web Se...
Article | 15/11/2012 IBM offering $US4 billion in credit through partners
IBM is offering US$4 billion in new credit to customers through its partner channel, and has also developed a new mobile application to help them get ...
Article | 14/11/2012 Japan's Sharp is seeking investment from Intel, others
Japan's Sharp is seeking an investment from U.S. chip giant Intel and other companies.
Article | 13/11/2012 Report: Intel in talks to invest up to $US500 million in Sharp
Intel is in final negotiations to invest up to $us500 million in struggling Sharp of Japan, Kyodo News agency reported Tuesday.