At EMC World 2012, EMC announced yesterday that it has acquired privately held Syncplicity, a leader in cloud-based file management …
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Qualcomm plans to reject Broadcom’s $103B acquisition bid
US chipmaker Qualcomm is reportedly drawing up plans to reject rival Broadcom’s $103 billion bid as early as this week.1 3396
China approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility
Chinese regulatory authorities have approved Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility, paving the way for the deal to close within the …
HP plans massive layoff, say reports
The last time Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a layoff of 25,000 people, it was on the same day that Lehman Brothers …
Salesforce.com acquires collaboration tool company Stypi
Salesforce.com has acquired real-time online collaboration platform company Stypi, it announced yesterday. The financial terms of the deal were not …
Dell’s Wyse buy a hedge against slowing PC sales
Dell’s plan to buy Wyse Technology is an effort to boost its client hardware portfolio and protect the company from …
Toshiba to buy IBM’s retail point-of-sale business for US$850 million
Toshiba said yesterday it will purchase IBM’s retail point-of-sale (POS) business for US$850 million, with the Japanese company taking over …
HP: Oracle executives believed Sun acquisition was a mistake
Oracle decided on an aggressive strategy against Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium servers after sales of competing Sun’s Sparc servers had been in …
Changing the game
Most of the global headlines of the past month were stolen by IT infrastructure leader Dell’s acquisition of SonicWall, the …
IBM acquires Varicent Software
Adding to its already considerable line of analysis software and expertise, IBM announced Friday that it has acquired business intelligence …
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion
Facebook is buying Instagram, a popular mobile photo-sharing app, for $1 billion in cash and stock. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder …