Many Tumblr users are not happy that Yahoo have stepped in to buy the company, despite reports that it was finically unsound, and it looks like some users are voting with their feet. More...
Yesterday, it appeared that the Whatsapp messenger service might be Google's next big acquisition in a potential $1 billion buyout. Today, it's nothing more than fantasy talk and denial. More...
Rumours are flying around that Google is in talks to purchase WhatsApp, expanding their services into the mobile messaging space, and to further develop their rumoured Google Babble service. More...
Speculation mounts that Microsoft wants to have a say in Dell's business if it helps the PC maker complete its move to a private company by giving it $2 billion or more. More...
A new report from CNBC is stating that Microsoft is apart of a group that is proposing to help with a leveraged buyout of Dell and the company may be looking to toss in 1-3 billion dollars. More...
With talks of a Dell buyout breaking earlier this week, it looks like Silver Lakes, the private equity firm looking to complete the deal, has four major banks lined up to finance the deal. More...
The Wall Street Journal thinks that Best Buy founder Richard Schulze's abrupt resignation from the company's board could be part of a plan to buy-out the company and take it private again. More...
Go Daddy, the world's largest registrar of domains, has been sold to a group of private equity firms. Reuters previously reported a few hours ago that the company was in talks to be sold. The... More...
A lot of people thought Mark Zuckerberg was crazy when he turned down Yahoo's $1 billion offer, but it now turns out that he also declined a $15 billion offer from Microsoft in 2007. This... More...
Contrary to previous reports, Seagate Technology has announced the world's largest disk drive maker has not received an offer to be acquired by any foreign or domestic company and that it is not for sale.... More...
As part of an online advertising push designed to leapfrog Yahoo and present a serious challenge to Google, Microsoft has just closed a $6 billion deal with digital marketing company aQuantive. As the software industry... More...
Recent reports that Nokia Corp. is in talks to buy Palm Inc. surprise some analysts, who nonetheless said some type of buyout might make sense and could even be a good thing for customers. According... More...
Let's talk SiN Episodes. Was the first episode, Emergence, successful financially? Why haven't we seen any Episode 2 news? The first episode did well, but not good enough to completely self-fund the... More...
Shares in NVIDIA Corporation surged nearly 8 percent today amid speculation that the graphics card company was about to be purchased by chip giant Intel. The stock rose $2.32 to hit $30.62 in afternoon trading... More...
Freescale Semiconductor - the former chip manufacturing arm of Motorola - has agreed to be acquired by a group of investment firms for $17.6 billion. A consortium of four private equity firms plans to buy... More...
On Tuesday, board members for Pixar Animation Studios will meet to approve a $7 billion buyout by Disney. The buyout will make Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive, around... More...
CoolTechZone is reporting today that Microsoft and Opera are in the final stages of reaching an agreement, that would see the Redmond based software giant purchase the small Norwegian browser company. The report cites that... More...
This week Kristin and the gang at PowerUser.tv talk about Autodesk buying Maya and hence owning both major 3D modeling programs. Tom picks his favorite of the week and do bloggers have privacy rights? Peter... More...
During the whole PeopleSoft and Oracle trial nothing has come up more than Microsoft's plans to purchase SAP. Earlier last year Microsoft talked to SAP about a possible merger. Oracle continues to shift... More...
Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone has confirmed that he intends to buyout Midway Games, following the report of a $14 million loss (up from $9.3 million last year) for the publisher in its first quarter results.... More...
As expected, Oracle said Thursday it has extended its offer to buy all the common stock of PeopleSoft Inc., a deal valued at about $6.3 billion. The original offer, made nearly one month ago,... More...
RealNetworks has agreed to buy Listen.com for about $36 million in cash and stock, a deal that could alter some key alliances in the online music business. The two companies announced an agreement... More...