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Yahoo to buy crowd sourced content provider Associated Content

19 May 2010, 10:18

The Internet giant continues its emphasis on the content side of things with the acquisition of 380,000 contributors.

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Google to buy VoIP company GIPS for $68.2 million

18 May 2010, 12:52

Acquisition will further strengthen Google’s voice as well as real-time collaboration offerings.

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Cannes 2010: AMD presents a VISION short film

13 May 2010, 12:11

Everyone's a film star with VISION technology, says AMD.

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SAP makes mobile move with $5.8 billion Sybase acquisition

13 May 2010, 10:52

German enterprise software giant buys US database company with a specialism in mobile platforms.

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BT returns to profit, buys into cloud gaming

13 May 2010, 09:44

An extended programme of cutting overheads and raising efficiency finally pays off, buys into cloud gaming.

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Nokia creates new mobile device arm

11 May 2010, 13:05

The mobile phone giant’s bid to retain its pre-eminence in the mobile Internet era leads to a corporate rejig.

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Corsair to move into the audio market after IPO

4 May 2010, 12:37

Enthusiast PC component specialist set to continue its diversification, possibly through acquisition.

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Palm goes to HP for $1.2 billion

29 April 2010, 09:03

The future of the US smartphone maker is finally resolved, with HP making yet another acquisition.

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Apple to buy ARM? Unlikely

22 April 2010, 09:31

A couple of UK papers have reported on this rumour, but there are many reasons to question it.

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Intel looking at more mobile Internet acquisitions

21 April 2010, 15:10

Expect to see more moves like Wind River from Intel as it looks to strengthen its mobile proposition.

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Palm reportedly seeking buyers

12 April 2010, 09:21

The struggling smartphone maker looks set to cut its losses after sales of the Pre have disappointed.

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AOL ready to give up on Bebo

7 April 2010, 12:21

The social networking site is one of many losing out to Facebook and Twitter, and AOL is short on cash.

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Nokia acquires mobile web platform company

26 March 2010, 15:28

The acquisition of privately-held US outfit Novarra is designed to improve web browsing on mainstream phones.

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CeBIT 2010 : AMD's VP of global product marketing talks VISION, platforms, graphics and Fusion

3 March 2010, 19:19

Leslie Sobon gives us the lowdown on why she believes AMD is in a strong(er) position going into H2 2010.

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CeBIT 2010 : Intel talks server strategy for 2010

3 March 2010, 00:23

New Westmere Xeons will provide a significant boost in performance, according to Intel's Joachim Aertebjerg.

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Motorola to finally complete split

12 February 2010, 10:05

Ailing communications company to separate into independent consumer and business-focused entities.

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Europe clears Oracle acquisition of Sun

21 January 2010, 14:38

Oracle concessions on MySQL and the existence of PostgreSQL enough to reassure the Commission.

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GlobalFoundries completes integration of Chartered

14 January 2010, 11:03

Combination of the two semiconductor manufacturers positioned as the first truly global foundry.

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Google reportedly bidding on local business directory Yelp

18 December 2009, 17:46

Shopping spree apparently continues as Google moves to be the Yellow Pages of the digital age.

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ASUS spins-off 75% of Pegatron

11 December 2009, 14:26

Separation of contract manufacturing arm undertaken to avoid perceived conflicts of interest.

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AMD SEC amendment reflects Intel payment

11 December 2009, 09:18

The littler chipmaker today said it had made a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, now that Intel has paid it the damages owed.

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AOL spin-off from Time Warner complete

10 December 2009, 15:30

Disastrous dotcom merger undone as AOL and Time Warner both vow to refocus on core strengths.

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Panasonic to buy majority of Sanyo

10 December 2009, 11:56

Consolidation in the Japanese consumer electronics market as Panasonic shells out around $4.6 billion.

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UK to dole out laptops, broadband to unemployed

3 December 2009, 09:27

The British government has decided to give the unemployed a virtual helping hand by comping them computers and some free Internet in order to find jobs online.

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IBM buys Guardium

1 December 2009, 09:51

Showing punters it is not above a good Cyber Monday bargain, IBM has splashed out for data security firm Guardium.

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US accuses Chinese government of Cyber espionage

24 November 2009, 09:24

A US congressional committee has denounced China for hacking sensitive government and military information.

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Google snaps up yet another ad firm

24 November 2009, 08:35

Revealing its future intentions for online advertising, Google has bought yet another ad startup.

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Zepto Computers throws in the towel

20 November 2009, 11:10

Danish premium PC and CE vendor files for bankruptcy, blaming current economic conditions.

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eBay closes the deal on Skype sale

20 November 2009, 09:15

Putting an unpleasant legal battle behind it, eBay finally manages to offload 70 per cent of the VoIP company it bought back in 2005.

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Intel Capital splashes out $25 million in new investments

18 November 2009, 10:44

Intel's investment arm is digging deep into its wallet and doling out the cash to seven companies deemed especially worthy.

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HP takes on Cisco with $2.7bn 3Com acquisition

12 November 2009, 10:21

Computing giant takes the fight to Cisco with a major move into the networking market.

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Adobe announces 680 layoffs

11 November 2009, 09:20

The firm said it will have to slash nine percent of its workforce due to falling demand for its products.

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OCZ in need of investment - aims for NASDAQ listing in 2010

10 November 2009, 13:15

Citing constrained working capital, the component maker is focusing on its SSD offering in a bid for more investment.

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