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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 3367
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 …
Google buys payments company TxVia
Google has acquired TxVia, a payments technology company, to complement its own payments capability. The financial terms of the acquisition were …
Dell to buy thin-client company Wyse Technology
Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualisation offerings, …