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Nokia Squashes Rumor of a Microsoft Takeover

Microsoft had a chance to close out its final CES keynote with a bang. Balmer could have hit attendees with a bombshell by announcing plans to acquire Finnish handset maker Nokia, followed by lots of...

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QLogic Sells Networking Assets to Intel for $125 Million

Intel has entered into a definitive agreement with QLogic to acquire the product lines of certain assets related to its InfiniBand business, the two companies announced in separate press releases...

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Consumer Watchdog Urges European Union to Block Google, Motorola Merger

John M. Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project, inked a letter to Mr. Joaquin Almunia, vice president of the European Commission, voicing his organization's concerns over "Google's...

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Google Spent Almost $2 Billion On 79 Acquisitions In 2011

Google’s filed its 10-K with the SEC yesterday, and the numbers have revealed a staggering increase in the number of acquisitions the search giant made in 2011. Google closed the year by spending close...

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Report: AMD Nearly Acquired Nvidia Instead of ATI

Nearly six years have gone by since AMD scooped up ATI for $5.4 billion, and when it was first announced, analysts wondered if the chip maker was making the right move. AMD's multi-billion dollar...

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Toshiba is Third Wheel in Western Digital's Acquisition of Hitachi

Western Digital would like nothing more than to finalize its proposed takeover of Hitachi's hard drive business, and to facilitate the process, WD agreed to transfer an asset package to rival Toshiba...

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AMD Acquires Server Startup SeaMicro for $334 Million

Advanced Micro Devices isn't afraid to spend big bucks acquiring companies seemingly out of the blue, such as it did when it acquired ATI for $5.4 billion in 2006. Fast forward to today and AMD is...

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CNN Reportedly in Talks to Buy Mashable for $200 Million

It's the beginning of a new week and what better way to kick off the humdrum of another Monday than with a juicy rumor? As the latest chatter goes, CNN is apparently really, really close to acquiring...

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Micron Ready to Spend $1.5 Billion Acquiring Elpida

It was being reported last week that Micron Technology issued a bid of $1.5 billion to take over Elpida Memory, which had fallen on tough times after a prolonged slump in the DRAM market, and it now...

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Rovio Crashes Benchmarking Party with Futuremark Games Studio Acquisition

Coming out of left field (from a 'fowl' hit? *groan*) is Rovio Entertainment's announcement that it has acquired Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of benchmarking software developer Futuremark....

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Gogo Grabs 1MHz Spectrum License from LiveTV to Boost In-Flight Internet Service

Gogo, the guru of in-flight wireless Internet service, announced on Monday that it has hammered out an agreement to acquire the Airfone business unit from LiveTV, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of...

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Leaked Documents Show Microsoft Considered Buying OnLive

As PC enthusiasts you have every right to be skeptical of OnLive as a service, but let’s just say we are impressed beyond belief that it works at all. Nothing will ever beat the experience you get with...

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Dell Dumps $2.4 Billion into Quest Software Acquisition

Dell may have to change its name to Daddy Big Bucks with the way it's throwing around cash in recent times. Having already made a number of software purchases this year, including a deal for for...

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Disney Acquires Lucasfilm for $4.05 Billion, Plans New Star Wars Movie

Die hard fans of the iconic Star Wars franchise are freaking out after learning that George Lucas just sold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4.05 billion, but after suffering through a trio of sequels that...

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Should Microsoft Make a Bid for Nvidia?

Much to the chagrin of Acer, Microsoft is making a run at hardware with its Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets, and those might be only the first of many more products to come. Microsoft's dancing a...

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Belkin Plucks Linksys Brand From Cisco

Cisco found a way out of the consumer networking market, thanks to Belkin.Call it an end of an era, if you wish, but Cisco is hightailing it out of the consumer space after selling off its Home...

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How Does Microsoft Fit Into Dell's $24.4 Billion Buyout?

Microsoft's $2 billion loan helped Michael Dell and partners purchase Dell for $24.4 billion.First things first -- if you haven't heard by now, Dell is going private. Michael Dell, with the help of...

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Key Group of Dell Shareholders Plan To Resist $24.4 Billion Buyout

A group of key shareholders stand a fighting chance of derailing Michael Dell’s ambitions to take the company he founded private.The possibility of a privately held Dell has sparked our imagination,...

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Belkin Finalizes the Deal to Acquire Linksys

Linksys lives on as a Belkin brandBack in late January Belkin announced it would be buying up the Linksys brand from Cisco, a company that seems utterly determined to exit the consumer market as...

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HP Chairman Ray Lane Resigns

Had become unpopular among shareholders for his role in the costly Autonomy acquisition debacleThe fallout from Hewlett-Packard’s ill-advised $11.3 billion acquisition of British software company...

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