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Article | 24/01/2011 Vodafone agrees to IPO by its Indian joint venture
Vodafone has given the green light to Indian joint venture partner Essar Group to conduct an IPO (initial public offering) of Vodafone Essar if desire...
Article | 20/01/2011 Cisco invests in cloud chip maker
Cisco has invested in Tilera, a developer of multicore processors for cloud computing and communications, as part of the chip maker's $45 million roun...
Article | 19/01/2011 Details emerge of patents Novell is selling to Microsoft
Additional details have emerged regarding the more than 800 patents Novell is selling to the Microsoft-led consortium CPTN Holdings for US$450 million...
Article | 18/01/2011 Facebook ends end-run around U.S. securities laws
There was another question about the planned Facebook stock offering that went beyond whether the social media leader is a good investment now or if i...
Article | 12/01/2011 Investors pump $950M into Groupon
Groupon has completed its US$950 million funding round and the money will be used to improve its technology infrastructure, continue its business expa...
Article | 12/01/2011 Court papers name Akamai tipster in insider-trading investigation
Federal court papers name a former <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/091610-akamai-ipv6.html">Akamai Technologies</a> employee who allege...
Article | 14/12/2010 Tech support company iYogi plans to support Android phones
Consumer PC tech support company iYogi is planning to extend its services to users of mobile phones, with an initial focus on devices running the Andr...
Article | 10/12/2010 Facebook co-founders pledge to give away most of their fortunes
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was one of 17 billionaires this week to pledge donating more than half of their wealth to charitable organizations.
Article | 4/12/2010 WikiLeaks: Intel threatened to move Russian jobs to India
Intel engaged in high-level talks with Russian officials and ultimately said it would pull research and development work from the country unless it co...
Article | 3/12/2010 Amazon invests $175 million in Living Social
Groupon rival Living Social has landed a US$175 million investment from online retail giant Amazon.
Article | 2/12/2010 Microsoft quietly invests in IBM emulator TurboHercules
Continuing its low-key crusade for greater mainframe openness (or less IBM dominance of that market), Microsoft has invested an undisclosed amount of ...
Article | 10/11/2010 CA relinquishes last stake in Ingres
CA Technologies has sold off its remaining 20 percent stake in Ingres to venture capital firm Garnett & Helfrich Capital, which is now the open-source...
Article | 3/11/2010 European Commission grant offers Symbian a boost
The Symbian Foundation, which recently lost its respected executive director and the backing of two major phone makers, is getting a much-needed boost...
Article | 29/10/2010 Intel opens US$1 billion chip factory in Vietnam
Intel on Friday announced the opening of a massive US$1 billion chip testing and assembly facility in Vietnam, the biggest such facility for Intel any...
Article | 29/10/2010 Oracle takes stake in Infiniband vendor Mellanox
Oracle announced late Wednesday that it has taken a 10.2 per cent stake in Mellanox Technologies, maker of Infiniband interconnects for servers and st...