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Article | 20/10/2011 India's Bharti, Softbank form mobile Internet joint venture
India's Bharti Enterprises has set up a joint venture with Japan's Softbank to focus on social media, gaming, and e-commerce for India's booming mobil...
Article | 3/10/2011 Alibaba's Jack Ma interested in buying Yahoo
Jack Ma, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, said on Friday at an event at Stanford University that he was interested in acquiring Yahoo, according to ...
Article | 1/10/2011 Search engine Blekko hauls in $15M Russian investment
Russia's biggest search engine, Yandex, has invested US$15 million in U.S. search startup Blekko, as part of $30 million funding round.
Article | 28/09/2011 Google buys land to build three data centers in Asia
Google has acquired land in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore to build data centers in these three locations, it said Wednesday.
Article | 28/09/2011 IBM to lead $US4.4 billion chip investment in New York
Five chipmakers, including Intel, IBM, Samsung Electronics, GlobalFoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have committed investment of $U...
Article | 27/09/2011 Lenovo forms JV with Compal to build new PC factory
PC vendor Lenovo has formed a joint venture with laptop contract manufacturer Compal Electronics to build and operate a new factory in China, as part ...
Article | 27/09/2011 Tumblr closes $85 million investment round
Fast-growing blogging platform Tumblr has closed an investment round that attracted new venture capitalists and brought in $US85 million.
Article | 15/09/2011 Match.com buys stake in Chinese dating site
Match.com announced on Wednesday it had acquired a 20 percent stake in a company behind one of China's largest online dating sites.
Article | 23/08/2011 Microsoft to co-develop cloud products with Chinese OS firm
Microsoft said on Tuesday it will work with a Chinese operating system developer to create cloud computing products for the country's market, a move t...
Article | 11/08/2011 HTC invests in Beats for better smartphone audio
HTC has invested in Beats Electronics, a U.S. headphones company rap artist Dr. Dre helped found, as part of a move to improve the audio on the Taiwan...
Article | 9/08/2011 Clearwire's LTE plan faces high hurdles
WiMax carrier Clearwire's so-far-unfunded plan to adopt LTE faces several obstacles, but the company effectively doesn't have a choice, according to i...
Article | 29/07/2011 Sprint, LightSquared see green in LTE
Sprint Nextel's deal with LightSquared to build and run its LTE network for more than US$13 billion in cash and credits all comes down to money.
Article | 23/07/2011 Google buys facial recognition company PittPatt
Google has acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, known as PittPatt, a company that develops technology for recognizing faces in images and video, a...
Article | 21/07/2011 Acer to buy U.S. cloud technology provider iGware
Acer said Thursday it plans to acquire iGware, a cloud technology company in the U.S., for US$320 million, as part of a plan to allow users to more ea...
Article | 19/07/2011 Survey: Wireless networks are near capacity
Mobile networks in North America are filled to 80 percent of capacity, with 36 percent of base stations facing capacity constraints, according to a su...