Neowin News Feed for: Bought

NPD: 52% of U.S. Xbox 360 Owners have bought Halo 3

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:26:48 +0000

NPD Group Incorporated is reporting that as of November, 4.1 million Americans have purchased Halo 3, which is equal to 52% of the current 7.9 million Xbox 360 owners in the United States. Super Mario... Read more...

Music site Last.fm bought by CBS

Thu, 31 May 2007 00:58:34 +0000

Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (Â£140m). The online network allows users to connect with other listeners with similar music tastes, to custom-build their own radio... Read more...

Xenosaga developer bought by Nintendo

Todd Tanner — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:26:51 +0000

Namco Bandai Games today announced on its Japanese Web site that it is selling its majority interest in developer Monolith Soft to Nintendo. According to the publisher, Nintendo has acquired 80 percent of the company's... Read more...

LiveJournal Bought Out

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:03:40 +0000

LiveJournal, the blogging site, has been bought up by Six Apart, the company behind the MovableType weblog software. The buy-out will see staff working with Danga, the company which previously owned LiveJournal, move to San... Read more...

RAF sergeant bought stripes on eBay

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:35:32 +0000

Newly-promoted RAF sergeants are being forced to buy their stripes on eBay after a cost-cutting "bungle" left the proud NCOs without a proper supply of the essential badge of rank, the Sun reports. ... Read more...

What would happen if Microsoft bought AMD?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:03:43 +0000

SAY, JUST SAY Microsoft decided to buy AMD to give it a jumpstart into the microprocessor business. What would be some of the implications? Design by Design Microsoft's designing of CPUs... Read more...

Cnet have bought mp3.com?

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:16:40 +0000

Nathan has kindly sent us a mailing from mp3.com. It would appear that Cnet is expanding it's network of sites further to encorporate a music website. Is Cnet following the trend of many major companies... Read more...

AMD seems upset that ALi got bought

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 May 2003 17:17:18 +0000

WHEN WE [The Inq] DISCOVERED last week that ALi appeared to have sold 60 per cent of its chipset business to UMC, we thought we'd have a chat with Ryan Crouch, desktop product marketing supremo... Read more...