Microsoft grabbed some spare change and popped over to Zenimax to make a $7.5 billion deal that they couldn't refuse, taking ownership of the company and all it's assets. That means Bethesda…
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ARM has been very popular with venture capitalists recently, barely four years ago SoftBank purchased it for $32 billion, before splitting off a quarter of it to a different investment group;
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According to separate reports from Bloomberg and the Financial Times, linked to by Slashdot but buried behind a paywall, NVIDIA is in talks with SoftBank to purchase ARM. SoftBank...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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