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Google recently boosted its patent war chest with a purchase of 1,029 IBM patents. The sale was first reported by blog SEO by the Sea. It was subsequently confirmed by Google on Friday.

Google, the giant search engine company, has confirmed on Friday that it has purchased more than 1,000 technology patents from IBM (International Business Machines Corp).

Google just quietly bought 1,029 IBM patents. Blog SEO by the Sea first reported the news. A Google spokesperson subsequently confirmed the purchase via an emailed statement.

After losing the bidding war over Nortel Networks patents, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has purchased more than 1,000 technology patents from International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM).

Google just bought 1,029 patents from IBM. Blog SEO by the Sea first reported the news. Google subsequently confirmed the news on Friday.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has acquired more than 1,000 technology patents from International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), after it lost the bidding war over more than 6,000 patent filings from Nortel Networks.

Although the completion of the $4.5 billion sale of Nortel's 6,000 patents has been announced, the U.S. Department of Justice intends to continue scrutiny over the deal. It is reportedly intensifying an investigation into whether the deal would unjustly hobble competitors.

Google acquired over 1,030 IBM patents in mid-July, as it readies itself for a potential onslaught of lawsuits.

MS-DOS, the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, turned 30-year-old on Wednesday.

The hackers have expletives and hate messages with Lil B's picture splashed across.

Groundbreaking for homes scaled a six-month high in June, partly reflecting growing demand for rental apartments, a government report showed on Tuesday.

Stocks jumped about 1 percent on Tuesday on strong earnings from IBM and Coca-Cola, offsetting investor disappointment in results from big financial firms.

Stocks rose about 1 percent on Tuesday as a strong quarterly report from IBM and a surge in housing starts sparked investor optimism a day after a selloff.

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Tuesday after a strong quarterly report from IBM and a surge in housing starts, sparking investor optimism a day after a selloff.

Stock index futures rose on Tuesday as IBM rallied after its quarterly results, though indexes were slightly off their early highs following a weak report from Goldman Sachs.

World stocks clawed back some recent losses and the euro steadied on Tuesday as investors paused from selling riskier assets in the face of the euro zone debt crisis and worries about Washington's debt ceiling fight.

Such a mass culling of jobs would be one of the largest such corporate layoffs in recent memory.

Technology giants like Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft and China Mobile lead the list of top global brands.

In a bid to challenge Google's collection of online office productivity and communications programs called 'Google Apps', Microsoft starts selling Office 365, a cloud-based version of its Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications.

Apple aims to be the global distribution source worldwide.

How often do you stare at a tech ad when you flip through a tech related magazine or look at any of the tech websites? It is said that every tech ad attracts readers' attention for not more than 3 seconds on average or they are usually completely ignored.

PC maker Dell should acquire CommVault Systems, a move that may give the company higher margin storage assets and allow it to expand into data management software market.

Barclays Capital said data storage company EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) will look to continue to acquire companies that focus on analytics and Big Data technology.

American software and consulting services firm IBM celebrated its one hundredth anniversary.

Webby Awards was all about humor, online hits and social good.

Software giant Microsoft has announced the release of the new SoC (System-on-chip) processor for the new Xbox 360 250GB Slim Kinect-ready model

A research team at IBM has made a circuit from graphene, a razor-thin revolutionary material. This marks a significant milestone in the use of graphene in practical devices, which could one day replace many uses of the ubiquitous silicon.

IBM has created the chips that will go into the Wii U.

PC maker Dell could acquire Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. in a bid to own assets in servers/storage/networking space.