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- Apple breaks exclusive iPhone contract in the UK
- Orange will sell the iPhone in the UK this year after signing a deal with Apple to become the second operator in the country to offer the phone. The deal breaks Apple’s exclusive deal with O2, which won the right to sell the phone two years ago. Apple is thought to be aiming...
- Articles 2009-09-27
- Oracle buys Sun for USD7.4bn
- Oracle has agreed to buy struggling Sun Microsystems for USD7.4bn after Sun failed to agree takeover terms with IBM. The deal gives software firm Oracle the ability to sell Sun’s hardware, which includes servers, workstations and data storage devices. According to CEO Larry Ellison, Oracle will now starting selling...
- Articles 2009-04-19
- Google happy to work with Twitter, says Schmidt
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Google would be ?happy? to work with micro-blogging platform Twitter to incorporate advertising into the service. Schmidt made the remarks during Google’s Q1 earnings call, in which the company announced increased profits but a slight dip in revenues. ...
- Articles 2009-04-16
- Google’s Android migrates to set-top box
- Motorola is building a set-top box for Japanese ISP KDDI that will run Google’s Android operating system. Google is hoping that the deal will inspire other manufacturers to put Android on devices such as netbooks, upsetting Microsoft’s dominance of the operating system market. PC maker HP recently admitted it...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- eBay to spend up to USD1.2bn on Korean takeover
- eBay plans to spend as much as USD1.2bn to acquire a majority stake in South Korean marketplace rival, Gmarket. The news shows eBay is even keener to buy into the firm than was previously thought. Earlier this week, the firm was reportedly eyeing a USD413m deal to gain 34.2%...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- AT&T in talks to extend iPhone deal
- AT&T is reportedly in negotiations with Apple to extend its exclusive contract to carry the iPhone in the US beyond next year, when the contract is set to expire. The iPhone, which has now sold 17m units worldwide, is integral to AT&T’s strategy of moving its core business from...
- Articles 2009-04-14
- Microsoft reveals app store partners
- Microsoft has signed up a number of developers for its forthcoming mobile application store, including Facebook, MySpace, games maker Electronic Arts and music service Pandora. The software giant says it will discuss the partnerships and demo mobile apps at the CTIA wireless showcase in Las Vegas this...
- Articles 2009-03-30
- Google chases Chinese users with free music
- Google is offering Chinese users free music downloads as it aims compete with domestic search rival Baidu and help record labels squeeze revenue from a market rife with piracy. Google will initially offer 350,000 tracks, increasing to 1.1m in the...
- Articles 2009-03-29
- Nokia buys into mobile payments firm Obopay
- Nokia is paying a reported USD70m for a minority stake in mobile payments firm Obopay, clearly indicated that the world’s largest mobile handset maker sees a future in mobile cash transactions. Though the convenience of mobile payments is likely to...
- Articles 2009-03-25
- Microsoft paying for ads on Twitter
- Twitter is acting on promises to monetise corporate clients by signing a sponsorship deal with Microsoft. The micro-blogging platform will receive an undisclosed sum to give its stamp of approval to Microsoft’s new tweet aggregator, ExecTweets. Twitter will also display ads for the Microsoft-branded site in the Twitter sidebar...
- Articles 2009-03-24
- Google considers Expedia buyout – Rumour
- Shares in travel website Expedia surged 9% this week amid rumours that search giant Google is considering a takeover bid. It is not the first time market watchers have named Expedia as a possible Google target. Last April, Expedia shares jumped 10% in response to similar buyout reports. ...
- Articles 2009-03-18
- Twitter founder rules out takeover
- Twitter co-founder Biz Stone claims the micro-blogging site is not interested in merger or takeover bids, though it is keen to form partnerships with larger companies such as Google, says Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Stone says the firm is in...
- Articles 2009-03-13
- UK web players regulate behavioural ads
- Major internet companies including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL are introducing guidelines for the use of behavioural advertising in the UK in a move aimed at placating privacy groups. Analysts are saying the guidelines are also an attempt to dissuade...
- Articles 2009-03-04
- Motorola sheds email unit
- Mobile handset manufacturer Motorola is selling its mobile email unit, Good Technology, to Visto, a competitor of Research In Motion RIM in the mobile internet space. Though the companies are not revealing financial details, analysts say Visto is most likely paying much less than the estimated USD500m it cost...
- Articles 2009-02-24
- Liberty offers USD250m to rescue Sirius
- Liberty Media is offering troubled satellite radio Sirius XM a USD250m loan to help it meet its debt commitments, in exchange for an equity stake in Sirius. The loan would help Sirius avoid a takeover from EchoStar CEO Charlie Ergen, who recently bought some of the radio provider's debt...
- Articles 2009-02-17
- Alcatel toys with Lego phone
- Danish toymaker Lego and mobile giant Alcatel are expected to launch a Lego phone at this month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The move is the latest attempt by the Danish manufacturer to push the Lego brand beyond the bounds of the toy market. The phone has a casing...
- Articles 2009-02-13
- Publishers unite to demand cash for stolen content
- A group of news publishers that includes Reuters is calling for syndication websites to share a proportion of their ad revenues. The Fair Syndication Consortium is targeting ad-providers that serve sites which reproduce content without permission, aiming to agree a direct revenue split. ...
- Articles 2009-04-21
- Amazon buys iPhone e-reader app
- Amazon has paid an undisclosed sum to acquire Lexcycle, the maker of free iPhone e-book app, Stanza. The move shows a clear effort from the online retailer to corner the e-book market. The firm already makes the world’s bestselling e-book reader, the Kindle, and recently launched its own e-reader...
- Articles 2009-04-27
- Toymaker Hasbro buys into TV with Discovery
- Toymaker Hasbro is paying USD300m to join a joint venture with Discovery Communications, which will revamp and replace Discovery's existing Discovery Kids TV channel. The new venture, which has yet to be named, will pool Hasbro's popular brands such as My Little Pony and Transformers with Discovery Kids shows...
- Articles 2009-04-29
- IBM backs degree in green data centres
- IBM is helping design the curriculum for a degree course at Nebraska's Metropolitan Community College MCC that will teach students how to run energy-efficient data centres. The partnership reveals the extent to which IT firms are worried about the costs of running data centres, which can often be a drain on...
- Articles 2009-09-03
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