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.
The earnings season is when a large number of publicly traded companies release their quarterly earnings reports. The earnings season is so far topping Street views at a pace above typical quarters.
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
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.
The sale of external disk storage systems kept up its momentum by posting a double-digit growth for the fifth consecutive quarter
International Business Machines (IBM) has edged past old rival Microsoft Corp in market value for the first time since April 1996.
San Francisco chooses Microsoft to host its cloud-based email client.
Research in Motion issued a partial recall on its much-hyped Playbook tablet, but unfortunately this disappointing news isn't an isolated misstep.