News

• Samsung buys Swedish wireless chip company Nanoradio

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 June, 2012 10:32

  Samsung Electronics has acquired Nanoradio, a Swedish company that develops energy-efficient chipsets for Wi-Fi, it said on Friday.

• U.K.'s Logica goes to CGI for $2.6 billion

  By John Ribeiro | 31 May, 2012 11:04

  CGI Group, a Canadian IT services and business process services company, has agreed to acquire its larger European competitor Logica for £1.7 billion (US$2.65 billion) in cash, in a bid to expand its European presence, the companies said Thursday.

• Juniper packs 30 new features into Web security software

  By Jim Duffy | 30 May, 2012 10:33

  Juniper Networks this week unveiled enhancements to the Web security software it obtained via the acquisition of Mykonos Software in February.

• Qualcomm to sell Indian broadband operation to Bharti Airtel by 2014

  By John Ribeiro | 24 May, 2012 18:18

  Bharti Airtel has invested about US$165 million to acquire a 49 percent stake in Qualcomm's Indian entities that hold broadband wireless licenses, with the Indian mobile operator eventually taking full ownership, the companies said Thursday.

• Oracle buys social relationship management company Vitrue

  By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 15:20

  Taking a step into the social media marketing industry, Oracle is purchasing Vitrue, the two companies announced Wednesday.

• VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 May, 2012 11:06

  VMware has acquired Wanova, a developer of software used to centralize and simplify image management on physical and virtual desktops, the company said Tuesday.

• Google has finally closed Motorola Mobility acquisition

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 May, 2012 00:36

  Google has finally closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, and will now start working on new devices while keeping Android open, it said on Tuesday.

• EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

  By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

  EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

• Google-Motorola Mobility merger will be done this week

  By Brad Reed | 22 May, 2012 02:27

  Now that Google has gotten permission from China's Anti-Monopoly Bureau to acquire Motorola Mobility, the companies are expected to complete their merger by the middle of this week.

• China approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

  By Marc Ferranti | 20 May, 2012 08:29

  Chinese regulatory authorities have approved Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, paving the way for the deal to close within the week, company officials confirmed Saturday.

• Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma

  By Cameron Scott | 19 May, 2012 09:43

  The mobile gift-giving app Karma has announced it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company.

• AT&T reportedly in talks to buy Leap Wireless

  By Matt Hamblen | 12 May, 2012 02:41

  AT&T has recently been in talks to buy Leap Wireless, a carrier operating in 35 states with 6 million customers, according to three unnamed sources cited in a report from Reuters.

• Twitter acquires email marketer RestEngine

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 11 May, 2012 20:29

  Twitter has acquired RestEngine, a two-and-half-year-old company that has helped social app publishers send emails based on a user's social graph, RestEngine said on Thursday.

• Facebook's Instagram buy could be delayed by FTC, report says

  By Cameron Scott | 11 May, 2012 08:42

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe of Facebook's proposed acquisition of Instagram that could delay the closing of the deal, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

• Potential bidding war emerges for Quest Software

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 May, 2012 01:38

  A number of parties have submitted bids to acquire Quest Software, which announced in March that it was going private via a US$2 billion stock buyback in partnership with equity firm Insight Venture Partners.