Altera and Intel Corp. have resume talks regarding possible acquisition of the former by the latter. The deal could be Intel’s largest acquisition in history and may be announced in the coming weeks, according to media reports. The New York Post reports that Altera and Intel are talking about a …
Read More »Lenovo interested in taking over MSI gaming laptop business
Lenovo Group, the world’s largest maker of personal computers, has reportedly proposed to acquire MicroStar International’s gaming laptop business unit. The move does not seem to be something unusual for Lenovo, who is known for large-scale acquisitions. MSI denies that it has intentions to sell-off one of its most profitable …
Read More »Rumors point towards Apple buying BlackBerry
This week the rumor mill is churning out something a little different. Apparently, Apple might be interested in acquiring BlackBerry in an effort to gain even more traction in the enterprise market. These rumors have sent shares in BlackBerry soaring. The Canadian phone company has been struggling in the smartphone …
Read More »Nokia to buy Alcatel-Lucent, set to become world’s No. 2 telecom equipment maker
Nokia Corp. announced on Wednesday its plan to acquire rival Alcatel-Lucent in an all-share deal. The transaction values Alcatel-Lucent at €15.6 billion. The new company will become the world’s second largest supplier or telecommunication equipment (after Ericsson) and will be headed by the current Nokia top managers. The combined company will …
Read More »Intel and Altera acquisition talks end due to price disagreement
Negotiations between Intel Corp. and Altera have ended because the companies could not agree on price. The world’s largest maker of microprocessors did not want to pay a hefty premium for the company, which is more profitable than Intel itself. If the chipmaker really wants to get Altera, the talks will …
Read More »Intel gets ready for its largest acquisition ever – report
Intel Corp. is negotiating with Altera Corp., a developer of system-on-chips, field programmable gate arrays and other specialty devices, over a possible takeover. The acquisition could strengthen Intel’s positions across many markets. The transaction could top $10 billion, which will be Intel’s biggest purchase ever. Altera develops and sells field …
Read More »Samsung rumoured to consider buying Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices faces hard times these days as sales of its central processing units and graphics processing units have been hitting new lows for many quarters. As a result, rumours about possible acquisitions of AMD resurrect. Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of semiconductors, is considering to acquire Advanced …
Read More »Apple’s now employs 100 thousand, keeps aggressive M&A strategy
At the annual meeting with investors, Tim Cook announced that Apple now employs over 100 thousand people worldwide. In addition, the CEO of Apple revealed that the company has acquired 26 smaller firms and startups for various reasons in the last 15 months. Apple traditionally does not make disclosures regarding its …
Read More »GAME acquires Multiplay for £20 million
UK retailer GAME has made quite the comeback since its 2012 bankruptcy. Now the company is venturing in to new territory by acquiring Multiplay, who many of you will know as being behind the I-series Insomnia LAN events here in the UK. GAME is managing to nab Multiplay for £20 …
Read More »Samsung to use $56 billion for growth, acquisitions
Without any doubts, Samsung Electronics is among the most successful companies in the high-tech industry nowadays. While the firm’s profit declined in 2014, the company increased its dividends to cheer up investors. However, the company will not do such a thing this year and will spend money on growth, which …
Read More »Microsoft and Samsung settle patent dispute
Microsoft and Samsung have settled their patent dispute over royalty payments, which became an issue once Microsoft bought Nokia. Samsung had previously declined to pay Microsoft a patent fee and share sensitive commercial smartphone information after the company bought Nokia. The firm argued that the acquisition of Nokia would invalidate a …
Read More »Microsoft thinks calendar app Sunrise is worth $100 million
Microsoft is well known for its costly acquisitions, with Nokia, Mojang and Skype all being snapped up by them for substantial amounts in the last few years. Now it seems that it is willing to pay over $100 million for a calendar app on iOS and Android, certainly not pocket …
Read More »Three confirms plan to buy O2 for over £10 billion
Hutchinson Whampoa, the parent company of UK mobile network, Three, has confirmed that it is hosting “executive negotiations” with Telefonica to acquire O2 for £10.25 billion. This news comes just a few days after rumors of a potential purchase began to fly around. In a statement from Hutchinson, a company …
Read More »Sky, TalkTalk and Three join list of potential O2 buyers
Sky, TalkTalk and Three are all interested in acquiring the O2 network. Sky and TalkTalk both want to launch their own mobile businesses in order to compete with the likes of BT, which recently snapped up EE, the largest network in the UK. Hutchinson Whampoa, owner of Three, is planning …
Read More »BT may buy EE for £12.5 billion
BT has announced that it is looking to buy network operator, EE, for £12.5 billion, despite rumours suggesting that the company was going to acquire o2. The telecommunications company confirmed today that it has entered exclusivity agreement talks with Deutsche Telekom and Orange in an effort to pick up EE. …
Read More »Lenovo may buy BlackBerry as early as this week
Lenovo could be looking to buy out BlackBerry as early as this week according to new reports. The Chinese tech company is rumored to be interested in the struggling mobile maker, which very recently began making a comeback with its new phone, the BlackBerry Passport. The BlackBerry Passport managed to …
Read More »Unity technologies is not up for sale
Last week it was reported that the Unity development platform may be up for sale, with presentations outlining the company's business value hitting the desks of Microsoft and Google amongst other companies. However, Unity co-founder, Joachim Ante has since denied these rumors, stating that while several partners have tried discussing …
Read More »Facebook doesn’t even know what to do with Whatsapp
Earlier this year, in a slightly surprising move, Facebook acquired popular messaging app, Whatsapp, for £13.6 billion ($22 billion). You'd think that a company paying out that much would at least have a plan to make that money back, right? It turns out that Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has no …
Read More »Amazon has completed its purchase of Twitch
Amazon has officially completed its purchase of the popular game streaming site, Twitch, for £595 million. Twitch had already accepted the deal as soon as it was announced but these multi-million pound deals can take some time to finalize. Originally it was rumored that Google would be buying Twitch for $1 …
Read More »Microsoft could be buying Minecraft and Mojang for $2 billion
Minecraft could be gaming's biggest ever success story. Developed (initially) by one man from a clone of another game, into a massive entertainment product that's sold millions of copies on multiple platforms, Minecraft also spawned conventions and merchandise and changed pre-ordering and early access forever. And now Microsoft wants in …
Read More »Intel could buy an ARM SoC vendor, MediaTek is a target – analyst
In a bid to finally become successful on the market of mobile devices, Intel Corp. needs to buy an existing developer of ARM-based system-on-chips (SoCs) for smartphones and tablets, a market analyst said. It is believed that MediaTek is a potential target for acquisition. It is not a secret that application …
Read More »Samsung acquires smart home company SmartThings
Samsung Electronics this week said that it had acquired SmartThings, a company that develops software and hardware for smart homes. The acquisition will help SmartThings to expand its product line, whereas Samsung will be able to enter a new market of smart home appliances. The company will continue to operate …
Read More »Intel acquires LSI’s Axxia networking processor unit from Avago
Avago Technologies continues to resell assets it got from LSI last year. On Thursday Avago and Intel said that the latter will acquire the Axxia networking business from the former. The acquisition of Axxia essentially makes Intel a supplier of network processors based on ARM Cortex and IBM Power processing …
Read More »Google rumored to buy Twitch for $1 Billion (again)
Google is one again rumored to be acquiring Twitch for $1 billion according to sources close to the deal. News of the potential buyout originally hit the Internet in May, the deal really shows the value of live-streaming and sharing game content on the Internet. Twitch has become a huge source of …
Read More »IBM faces roadblocks with sale of server, semiconductor businesses
International Business Machines Corp. is expected to accomplish two important transactions this year: it is projected to complete sale of its x86 server division to Lenovo Group and it is rumoured that the company will also agree to sell its semiconductor manufacturing business to GlobalFoundries. However, the U.S. regulators may …
Read More »Avago Technologies to acquire PLX Technology
Avago Technologies, the company, which agreed to sell its solid-state drive-related assets to Seagate earlier this year, announced plans to acquire PLX Technologies, a company which is widely known for its PCI Express bridges and switches used on multi-GPU graphics solutions as well as on sophisticated mainboards for enthusiasts. “The …
Read More »Oculus VR acquires Carbon Design, the developer of Xbox controller
Oculus VR on Tuesday said it agreed to acquire Carbon Design, one of the premier industrial design and product engineering teams. Carbon Design is known for the Xbox gamepad as well as the Kinect motion sensor. The design team will help Oculus VR to design its first commercial virtual reality …
Read More »Carmack speaks out on Facebook’s Oculus acquisition
Many gamers were blind-sided by Facebook's recent acquisition of Oculus VR and it seems that even John Carmack wasn't aware that it was happening. However, after sitting on it for a few days, he has decided to speak positively about the move, stating that Facebook gets “the big picture” when …
Read More »Facebook will probably monetise Oculus Rift with adverts
Facebook has bought-out Oculus VR, there's no getting around it. Whether like Notch, you're mad and want nothing to do with it any more, or if you're one of the few who see the added financial backing from the social networking giant as a great leg up for virtual reality, …
Read More »Centerprise prepare to take sizeable chunk of UK PC market
Outside of the PC industry, the name Centerprise might not ring a bell. Inside the industry, it is known as a major IT distributor – based in Basingstoke – with around 30 years' experience in the UK channel. Centerprise has just made a rather interesting acquisition, which could create interesting …
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