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Top 6 Cisco acquisitions of 2007 27 December, 2007 07:32:20
And what it should buy in 2008Cisco made 11 acquisitions this year culminating in 126 purchases since Cisco's birth. It made three more acquisitions than it did last year, when it spent a measly US$256 million buying ho-hum technologies. This year was different, not only in the sheer dollar size of some acquisitions, but also because of the breadth of technologies it acquired. From social networks to broadband wireless, we take a look at what Cisco Subnet has named Cisco's top-six acquisitions of 2007. We also look at what Cisco should have bought and what Cisco may be looking to buy in 2008. - +
10 IT security companies to watch 20 October, 2007 07:03:02
Data-leak prevention, behavior-based malware detection among focus areasNew companies have to be brash to enter the network security market, given that the industry has witnessed an explosion in creativity over the past five years and considering that big players such as Microsoft and IBM increasingly are throwing their weight around in security. - +
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $US44.6 billion 02 February, 2008 08:35:01
Yahoo will carefully evaluate Microsoft's proposal, which it described as unsolicited.Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around US$44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services. - +
13 Future mobile technologies that will change your life 23 October, 2007 10:12:14
These disruptive technologies will affect how you work, play and communicate when you're mobile.Most of us take it for granted that we can check e-mail with our mobile phones. But not long ago, this was a truly disruptive technology that changed how we did business and stayed in touch when we were away from home and the office. - +
WEB 2.0 - Google wants your phonemes 24 October, 2007 09:29:25
IDG talks to Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience at Google.Although Google's non-search engine products, like its Google Apps Web hosted collaboration and communication software suite, get much attention, search technology and its companion ad system and network still generate most of the company's revenue.
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Microsoft has acquired MotionBridge, which is based in Paris and provides search technology for mobile phone operators, Microsoft announced Monday at the 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona.
MotionBridge technology allows for "deep indexing and deep indexing of mobile operators' content assets," Pieter Knook, senior vice president of Microsoft's mobile and embedded business and communications sector, said at a news conference.
Microsoft will combine MotionBridge's "smart" search engine technology with its own mobile search technology to provide operators and users with a richer experience, Knook said.
Several mobile phone operators are currently using MotionBridge's mobile phone search technology, Orange, Sprint and O2 currently use MotionBridge's mobile search engine.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not provided.
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