All the stories tagged with: acquisition
Intel To Purchase Infineon’s Wireless Business For $2B This Week?
08/27/2010, Reports are in that Intel is closing in on a deal to acquire the wireless unit of Infineon AG, the company which is responsible for the iPhone’s baseband chips and also has technology in Samsung’s popular Galaxy S smartphone. If [...]
Motorola Acquires Web App Developer North 280 For $20M
08/25/2010, Motorola has just acquired web-app developer, 280 North. The deal, rumored to cost about $20 million, will give the company access to the programming platform known as Cappuccino which aims to simplify the creation of deeper web apps. Motorola has [...]
Is Intel Thinking Of Acquiring Infineon?
05/17/2010, Rumor is going around that Infineon might be considering selling its cellular chipset business to Intel. Apparently Intel is quite interested in getting into the mobile chip business. That being said, Infineon CEO, Peter Bauer, has been described as being [...]
Class Action Lawsuit Could Be Filed Against Palm Due To HP Purchase?
04/29/2010, The law firm of Howard G Smith has today confirmed that it is in the midst of investigating the possibility of a class-action lawsuit being filed against Palm for potentially short-changing investors when it agreed to be purchased by HP. [...]
Apple Purchases Mobile Assistant App Siri
04/29/2010, We weren’t joking when we said that there is an acquisition by either Google or Apple almost every other week, and hot on the heels of Google’s acquisition of LabPixies, Apple has just acquired Siri, a company that makes a [...]
Google Acquires Widget Creator LabPixies
04/27/2010, It seems that there is an acquisition by Google or Apple every other week, and now it’s Google’s turn. The search engine giant has just snapped up LabPixies, the company that Google works with to create many of the widgets [...]
Rumor: Apple Planning To Acquire ARM For $8bn?
04/21/2010, This is still very much a rumor at this point in time, so we’d suggest you take it with a pinch of salt. Word is going around the ARM Holdings, the company behind the popular ARM processors, could be acquired [...]
Research In Motion Snaps Up Software Developer Viigo
03/27/2010, It seems that acquisitions are in the air, and following Nokia’s acquisition of Novarra, RIM has also snapped up Viigo, a Toronto-based company that has been working together with RIM for some time now. Viigo’s most popular product is its [...]
Nokia Buys Novarra To Improve Web Experience On Its Phones
03/26/2010, Nokia has just announced its acquisition of Novarra, a Chicago-based company that focuses on mobile browsing technologies. Novarra came up with the mobile browser, dubbed the Vision Mobile Browser, which has been used on smartphones and featurephones since 2002. There [...]
Google Acquires DocVerse
03/06/2010, Google has stepped up its war against Microsoft Office with the acquisition of DocVerse, a company that offers a rather useful plug-in for Microsoft Office, allowing users of the desktop software to collaborate on Office documents, despite the document being [...]
