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Article | 6/05/2013 McAfee to acquire firewall maker Stonesoft
McAfee plans to acquire Stonesoft, a Helsinki-based maker of firewalls, for US$389 million in cash, the companies said Monday.
Article | 2/05/2013 Dish chairman says Sprint modernization has to be done from the US
Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen said Wednesday that his is an American company, and the modernization of Sprint Nextel's network will have to be d...
Article | 2/05/2013 Yahoo acquires to-do list app Astrid
Yahoo has acquired Astrid, a to-do list and personal assistant mobile app, and the developers behind it for an undisclosed sum.
Article | 1/05/2013 Oracle takes stake in ingestible health sensor maker
Aiming at health care as a key vertical market, Oracle has taken a minority stake in medical device maker Proteus Digital Health, which sells ingestib...
Article | 1/05/2013 Report: Yahoo drops Dailymotion deal in face of French opposition
Yahoo has scrapped plans to invest in French online video site Dailymotion, after the French government opposed the Internet giant acquiring a majorit...
Article | 30/04/2013 Softbank: No change in Sprint Nextel offer in response to Dish Network
Softbank's CEO, in a battle with Dish Network to acquire U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel, slammed a US$25.5 billion offer made by Dish, saying it i...
Article | 30/04/2013 Intel backs SoftBank's bid for Sprint Nextel
Intel has backed SoftBank's bid for Sprint Nextel, citing that the deal would bring needed competition in the wireless space in the U.S.
Article | 25/04/2013 Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS
Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develo...
Article | 24/04/2013 Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies
Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready dat...
Article | 24/04/2013 MetroPCS shareholders OK merger with T-Mobile USA
The merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS cleared its last major hurdle on Wednesday as MetroPCS shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal.
Article | 23/04/2013 SkySQL, MariaDB to merge
Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to mer...
Article | 19/04/2013 Reports: Blackstone abandons offer for Dell
Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than a month after the private-equity fund manager said it was planning to top an offer from foun...
Article | 19/04/2013 IBM-Lenovo deal likely to focus on low-end, commodity servers, analyst says
Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such a...
Article | 18/04/2013 IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo, reports say
IBM is in "advanced discussions" with Lenovo over a possible deal for it to purchase IBM's x86 server business, according to two news reports.
Article | 17/04/2013 Intel acquires Mashery for planned services suite
Intel has purchased Mashery, a provider or API management tools, in the chip maker's latest move to expand into software and services.