Toshiba Raids LITE-ON’s SSD Business
LITE-ON might not have been your go to company when grabbing a new SSD for your system, but they have been a player in the market for a decade now. They specialized…
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Git outta here! Microsoft just bought the largest open source repository hosting service?
It is true, barring any legal challenges to the purchase, Microsoft will soon own GitHub, everyone's favourite source for open source software projects. This might not come as a complete surprise to…
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OCZ’s new controller; Toshiba
It is hard to say just how much per gigabyte Toshiba paid but for $35 million US they now own all of OCZ's storage, both consumer and enterprise. In the statement released…
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Microsoft buys Nokia, the second largest maker of cell phones
At a mere $7.2 billion, Microsoft just picked up all of Nokia's devices and some of their software in an attempt to streamline production and win market share from Apple and Android…
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McAfee picks up Stonesoft, Intel continues to focus on network security
A small security firm called Stonesoft was acquired by Intel, or rather McAfee, for just under $400m. They provide not only software and services but actual network appliances which utilize their proprietary…
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Lenovo still might have a taste for Blackberrys
As we have heard before there are rumours that Lenovo is interested in possibly buying Blackberry, or at least trying. The hurdle they face is not economic, not only do they have…
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Won’t sell Surface? You won’t have a choice if we buy you!
It is a bit of an exaggeration to entertain the thought that Microsoft is involved in buying Dell so that they will finally have a supplier that will have to sell Surface…
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Lenovo to buy RIM? That’s a little hard to swallow.
“We are looking at all opportunities -- RIM and many others” is the actual quote from Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming that spurred the speculation that Lenovo is going...
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Motherboard manufacturer merger mayhem
The news from DigiTimes yesterday that Haswell will take even more features away from the motherboard and place them on the CPU signalled a problem for second and third tier manufacturers…
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Remember VIA Technologies?
There was a time when VIA was a common name in computers for motherboard chipsets and low power processors, but it has been quite a while since they've been in the news. …
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Micron goes on a spending spree, picks up Elpida and a big majority of Rexchip shares
Micron has been very busy lately, spending $2.5 billion USD to purchase Elpida and another $334 million USD to purchase another 24% of DRAM maker Rexchip from Powerchip. The latter of those…
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Intel’s interconnect business grows after buying Cray’s technolgy
Anyone who follows the supercomputer business has had quite a bit of excitement recently, with major shifts in the market becoming quite frequent. Intel started it off by purchasing QLogic's...
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AMD and SeaMicro partnering to develop a processor agnostic HPC interconnect
In the beginning of March it was announced that AMD would be spending $334 million to purchase SeaMicro, a company who holds the patents on the 3D torus interconnect for High...
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SeaMicro spurns Atom and cleaves to AMD
There is more movement in the low power server market as AMD purchased SeaMicro for $334 million, an investment that may help them keep their share of the server market. You might have…
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Intel is thinking even bigger and likely leveraging their McAfee assets
Intel blew tiny $125 million piece of their record breaking quarterly income to purchase QLogic's InfiniBand business, which gives them access to a networking technology significantly faster than Ethernet. InfiniBand...
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SandForce jumps into bed with LSI, not OCZ
LSI, known for their high quality RAID cards here at PC Perspective have just agreed to purchase our favourite designer of SSD controllers, namely Sandforce. The deal is for $322 million in...
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“I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers”
The tech world is always going through changes; much like life in a pond, the small things either grow into big things or something big eats them. Motorola was once a big…
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Your company lost $7 million last year? Can we buy it for $8.5 billion? Microsoft buys Skype.
The rumour mill really dropped the ball on this one, as just a few hours ago it was Facebook that everyone was muttering would one day buy Skype. Turns out that in…
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