Neowin News Feed for: Merge

Getty Images and Shutterstock are becoming one company

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:30:01 +0000

Stock image platforms Getty Images and Shutterstock have announced that the two companies will merge to become a single entity with an enterprise value of $3.7 billion. Read more...

Scammers used Ethereum's switch to proof-of-stake to steal millions of dollars

Paul Hill — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:16:02 +0000

The Ethereum Merge that took place in September led to scams rising significantly, according to Chainalysis. The countries most affected by the scams were the United States and India. Read more...

Ethereum's energy usage and crypto-coin price plummeted after 'The Merge'

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:02:01 +0000

Ethereum finally completed "The Merge". While moving to a Proof of Stake validation will bring down energy usage, the transition has already pulled down the cryptocurrency's exchange price. Read more...

Google Meet and Duo are being merged

Usama Jawad — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:10:01 +0000

Google has announced that it is merging its Duo and Meet services in a very confusing manner where the latter's features will first be migrated to Duo and then, Duo will be rebranded to Meet. Read more...

Google to merge Play Music and YouTube Red

David J Delgado — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:44:01 +0000

Google looks to consolidate YouTube Red and its Play Music brands in an effort to offer a more cohesive and user-friendly platform while also growing its user base and educating consumers. Read more...

Instagram-Facebook deal could be delayed by six months

Paul Ferson — Sun, 13 May 2012 21:56:46 +0000

An expert in the field of antitrust deals has suggested that the Federal Trade Commission may take an interest in Facebook's purchase of Instagram, and could delay it by six months, if not more. Read more...

Merge Tables Wizard for Microsoft Excel 1.65

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:31:45 +0000

With Merge Tables Wizard you can easily lookup and copy matching data from one Excel table to another. Two tables can be located in the same or two different Microsoft Excel files. The intuitive and... Read more...

Blizzard and Activision Merge

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:32:28 +0000

Activision and Blizzard have said they will form "the world's most profitable games business" in a deal worth $18.8bn (Â£9.15bn). US-based Activision also makes hit console games such as the Tony Hawk series and Guitar... Read more...

Xbox Live and Windows Messenger buddies to merge

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:31:29 +0000

Starting May 7, Microsoft will launch a new service called Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360 which will allow users to merge Xbox Live friends lists with Windows Messenger contact lists. That means users of... Read more...

Security threats are starting to merge

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:18:02 +0000

The purveryors of malware are becoming increasingly well-organised and financed, according to vendor Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report. In the past e-criminals made money from selling code, estiablishing botnets, or spamming, but gangs are now... Read more...

Sirius Radio to merge with XM

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:45:54 +0000

Despite previous reports concerning the FCC denying XM and Sirius a chance to merge, the two U.S. satellite radio providers have announced that a merger would indeed take place in a stock-for-stock deal. The two... Read more...

Two Major Linux Groups Merge to Fight Microsoft

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:54:30 +0000

Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) have merged to form the Linux Foundation. Jim Zemlin, FSG's executive director, will be in charge of the new company. He announced Tuesday the... Read more...

AMD & ATi Merge

Tom Warren — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:18:56 +0000

AMD & ATi have officially announced their plans to merge. The rumour mill had been running for a good month or two about AMD planning to merge with ATi. AMD have announced their merger under... Read more...

GameSpy and IGN announce intention to merge

Marcel Klum — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:25:48 +0000

Videogame website networks GameSpy and IGN are set to merge, in a move which they claim will create the largest network of gaming websites on the Internet, with traffic exceeding 673 million pageviews per month.... Read more...

Microsoft to Merge U.S. Government, Education Businesses

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:09:25 +0000

As Microsoft's fiscal 2004 kicks into full swing, the Redmond software company is continuing to hone its organizational structure. One change likely to be announced soon is the merger of Microsoft's U.S. government operations with... Read more...

Microsoft and Bell Canada to merge portals

Tom Warren — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 07:07:40 +0000

Bell Canada, the country's top Internet provider, will create a co-branded Web portal with Microsoft Corp. under a five-year pact announced on Monday. Bell Canada said it will merge its Sympatico.ca... Read more...