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Construction has resumed on a huge data center Oracle was building in the Salt Lake City area. It halted work on the facility, which it had been touting at trade shows, without explanation last year... More >
Microsoft has shelved development of a two-screen, book-style tablet device code-named Courier, reports The Wall Street Journal . Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw described it as one of the co... More >
Symantec has acquired two companies, encryption specialist PGP for $300 million and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for $70 million, reports InfoWorld . Symantec previousl... More >
Acer reported profit grew by 62 percent in the first quarter as demand for PCs rebounds, reports The Associated Press in a story in the Los Angeles Times. It posted net income of $3.29 bill... More >
SAP says its long-promised, but oft-delayed Business ByDesign suite will finally be released in July, reports Reuters . The cloud-based suite for small and mid-size businesses has been in d... More >
Apple has acquired Siri, a San Jose-based startup that created a voice-activated personal assistant for the iPhone, reports InformationWeek. Financial details were not disclosed. It's just the lat... More >
Motorola beat analyst expectations in first-quarter earnings and Co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha expressed confidence in the handset unit's position in the market, reports The Wall Street Journal . ... More >
Apple's buying a second chip maker with the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Intrinsity, reports The New York Times . Financial details were not disclosed, though one estimate put the purchase pr... More >
German software maker SAP's fortunes returned in a big way during the first quarter. SAP reported net income rose 97 percent as IT spending returns, reports ABC News . Of course, that's compared w... More >
Twitter returns to its roots with the acquisition of Seattle SMS startup Cloudhopper, reports The New York Times . Financial details were not disclosed. Though Twitter began as a text-mess... More >
Microsoft can thank Windows 7 for a 35 percent increase in net income in its most recent quarter as businesses replace aging systems, according to an Associated Press story in The Philadelphia Inq... More >
IBM and Lionbridge, which offers cloud-based translation outsourcing, have entered into an agreement to develop and market automated text-to-text translation systems, reports RTT News . They... More >
Nokia's profits and revenue grew in the first quarter, but below analyst expectations, reports PCWorld.com . The company's share price dropped as much as 15 percent after reporting net inc... More >
Louisiana-based CenturyTel has agreed to acquire Qwest in a a $10.6 billion stock swap, reports The New York Times . It also will assume Qwest's nearly $11.8 billion in debt, which gives Qwest an ... More >
Verizon reported first-quarter earnings dropped 29 percent in part due to the end of tax breaks related to the health care overhaul. But it also is having to increasingly rely on lower-end customers... More >
Supercomputer vendor Cray has been awarded a $20 million contract with Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, reports TechFlash . The contract calls for delivery of the Cray XT6 s... More >
Facebook is widening its reach across the Web, with privacy complaints sure to follow. CNN explains the change this way: Once signed in to Facebook, users visiting other websites can view m... More >
Customers' "increased confidence" propelled EMC to profits that nearly doubled those in the quarter last year, according to an Associated Press story in The Boston Globe. The storage vendo... More >
Salesforce.com has announced the acquisition of Jigsaw, which offers a cloud-based business contact system, for $142 million in cash, plus a performance-based earn-out of up to 10 percent of the pu... More >
Google's latest acquisition is Agnilux, a startup that no one seems to know much about, as ReadWriteWeb notes. And there's no financial details. The company is run by refugees from P.A. Se... More >
Depending on your accounting methods, AT&T did or didn't meet analyst expectations in the first quarter. At issue is a $1 billion charge related to the nation's overhaul of the health care... More >
Apple blew past Wall Street expectations, posting a 90 percent increase in profits in its second quarter, reports The New York Post . Its shares rose nearly 6 percent on the news. MarketWat... More >
IBM's global strategy -- and focus on services -- insulated the company during the economic downturn, reports The New York Times , as Big Blue reports another positive quarter. The company r... More >
The Chinese government has cited two factories run by KYE Systems Corp. for violating labor laws, including failing to register more than 300 workers between the ages of 16 and 18, and forcing empl... More >
Google reported net income in the first quarter grew 37 percent compared with the ugly situation for all a year ago, and sales were up 23 percent. And though the results topped analysts' expectatio... More >
Seconding Intel's refrain that IT spending is back, chip maker AMD has reported its second consecutive profitable quarter, reports an IDG story on BusinessWeek. AMD reported revenue rose ... More >
Oracle is buying Massachusetts-based Phase Forward, which makes software to manage clinical trials and drug safety, reports The Boston Globe . The deal is valued at about $685 million, or $... More >
Just as PCs start seeming, well, soooo Commodore 64, they're back. Intel's rosy quarterly report has folks seeing dollar signs in the PC market. The chip maker says companies are finally upda... More >
Google has announced a tool to search posts on Twitter at a specific time, reports seattlepi.com . So far, the database only goes back to February, but the company plans to make it avail... More >
Microsoft has said it will investigate a report that a supplier of computer mice and other peripherals subjects workers to illegal and even inhumane working conditions, reports PC Magazine . ... More >
Calling it "best first quarter ever," Intel reported net income increased 288 percent to $2.4 billion for the quarter that ended March 27, reports an IDG story in BusinessWeek. Revenue was... More >
As we near the date when one of life's certainties comes due, there's news that IBM is helping the tax man. Big Blue has released its Tax Collections Optimizer, a software application to help gover... More >
SpringSource, itself an acquisition of VMware, has announced the buyout of UK-based Rabbit Technologies for an undisclosed price, reports TechCrunch . Rabbit, a 10-person company, will pl... More >
Carrying out its plan to buy one small company a month, Google has announced the acquisitions of UK-based Plink for an undisclosed sum, reports The Guardian . Plink's Android app PlinkAr... More >
Adobe has released Creative Suite 5, its collection of design applications that form the core of work for print and Web designers and videographers. Macworld quotes John Loiacono, Adobe's se... More >
Twitter, which worked with Research in Motion on a just-launched BlackBerry app, also has agreed to buy Atebits, the startup that makes the Tweetie apps for using Twitter on Mac computers and iPh... More >
Palm has put itself up for sale and is actively looking for bids this week, according to Bloomberg . The company is working with Goldman Sachs and Frank Quattrone's Qatalyst Partners to find a buye... More >
Forrester sees the recovery taking hold in the United States and has pumped up its projection of IT spending for the year, reports InformationWeek . It raised its prediction to 8.4 percent... More >
Juniper Networks has announced plans to acquire Ankeena Networks to improve its ability to deliver video over the IP network, reports Channel Insider. v3.co.uk puts the value of the deal at $10... More >
Branching off a bit, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion announced the acquisition of QNX Software Systems to provide wireless technology in cars, reports Bloomberg . Financial details were not re... More >
In a move seen as an attempt to counter Google's free navigation services on Droid smartphones, Nokia has announced the acquisition of location technology company MetaCarta , reports Reuters . Fina... More >
Boston-based Vaultus Mobile Technologies is being bought out by Antenna Software of New Jersey for an undisclosed price, reports masshightech.com . Antenna offers mobile enterprise applicat... More >
An Indian IT services subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, MphasiS, is buying technology outsourcing services provider Fortify Infrastructure Services, reports Computerworld . The deal calls for Mphasi... More >
Microsoft has released a customized version of its Microsoft Dynamics CRM software for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. It's offering a free trial on its Web site, reports Mary-Jo F... More >
Storage vendor NetApp, which is diving into cloud storage , announced it is buying out rival Bycast, according to an Associated Press story in The Boston Globe. Financial details were not discl... More >
AOL has announced it will decide by the end of May whether it will sell off or close the Bebo social-networking site, reports Reuters . It acquired the site for $850 million two years ago. ... More >
In the fourth quarter of 2009, for the first time, more people signed up for prepaid wireless service than signed contracts, according to New Millennium Research Council, a Washington, D.C.-based thi... More >
CA Software plans to cut 1,000 jobs, 7. 6 percent of its work force, as part of a restructuring, reports The Wall Street Journal . The company named a new CEO in January and has been makin... More >
Google's buyout of Episodic, which makes a platform for broadcasting live and on-demand video over the Web, is seen as an attempt to beef up YouTube. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. PCWo... More >
Facebook has bought the online photo-archiving site Divvyshot for an undisclosed sum, which CNET News' Caroline McCarthy sees as an acquisition based on getting Divvyshot's engineering team on boa... More >
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeal decided not to reverse a lower court ruling that found eBay was not responsible for counterfeit goods sold on its auction site. According to InformationWeek... More >
Supercomputer maker Cray has landed a $45 million contract with the National Nuclear Security Administration to create a new new platform, named Cielo, to help protect the U.S. nuclear stockpile, ... More >
The U.S. International Trade Commission says it will investigate Apple's claims that HTC's smartphones infringe on its patents, according to Computerworld . Last month, Apple not only filed... More >
IBM is offering startups free access to software and industry-specific development frameworks, reports ChannelWeb . InfoWorld likens the Global Entrepreneur Initiative to Microsoft's... More >
All 12 appeals court judges have refused to rehear the case that forced Microsoft to remove a feature from Office 2007, reports Computerworld . Last month, the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals... More >
A U.S. District Court judge for the District of Maryland has dismissed Novell's final two antitrust claims against Microsoft, according to Datamation . The long-running suit claimed that Mi... More >
Research in Motion reported increased revenue and earnings for its most recent quarter, but analysts worry about the tough competition it faces. Despite strong international sales, the performance d... More >
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