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Insiders consider Microsoft buyout of Adobe to have no sense

Published on: 12th October, 2010

The rumoured acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft is considered “nonsense” by multiple insiders on both sides. No details are known about the discussions between Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen and Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer. It is however believed that a more conventional cooperation is ongoing and would focus on incorporating Flash in order to compete with [...]

Google executive defending company’s flexibility related to changing or expanding Android OS

Published on: 12th October, 2010

Google’s vice president of engineering Andy Rubin defended the flexibility of his company when permitting carriers to expand or change the Android operating system. While interviewed by PCMag, Google’s official minimized the platform’s current fragmentation. He suggested that consumer demand would force companies to keep the most recent versions of the operating system, although the [...]

Oracle supposed to acquire a chip maker and enter hardware

Published on: 29th September, 2010

Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison has said it was possible to acquire a chip producer in order to bolster the long-term position of the company. Oracle is ranked as the third largest software producer in the world. After the acquisition of Sun this year for $7.4 billion, Oracle is intending to develop database management software and [...]

Google, Apple and others trying to settle poaching case

Published on: 20th September, 2010

Several companies are in talks with the Department of Justice and try to avoid an investigation related to anti-competitive hiring deals. Among these companies, Adobe, Apple, Google, Intuit, Intel and Pixar are trying to forefend an antitrust case. They are supposed to stop any pacts they have to prevent poaching each other’s employees. The Wall [...]

RIM had less new users, but ships 12.1 million BlackBerries

Published on: 20th September, 2010

Research in Motion has broken another record with its BlackBerry shipments but has also shown some signs of trouble related to new users. The company has shipped 12.1 million smartphones this summer but the number of new owners has dropped relative to this year’s spring. Only 4.5 million users were new versus 4.9 million registered [...]

Yahoo hired Microsoft Kin executive

Published on: 13th September, 2010

Yahoo has recently hired a former Microsoft executive, John Matheny, according to a report from AllThingsSD. As his LinkedIn profile shows, John Matheny was involved deeply in the Kin project and was the General Manager of the Windows Phone App Studio, Premium Mobile Experiences and MSN Platforms & Services group. He has now the position [...]

Hewlett Packard hopes to come to terms with ORACLE

Published on: 13th September, 2010

Temporary CEO of Hewlett Packard, Cathie Lesjak, said at a Citigroup conference that she was optimistic with regard to getting back on more friendly terms once the lawsuit against Mark Hurd finished. She also said that business would inevitably prevail and both HP and Oracle, the new employer of Hurd, needed each other. The company [...]

StreetSpace lawsuit against Apple and other companies, related to ads

Published on: 1st September, 2010

According to AppleInsider, Apple and its newly-acquired subsidiary Quattro Wireless are two targets, among others, in a lawsuit promoted by the Malaysian firm StreetSpace. The company is managing the Web Station, which is a web-browsing kiosk partially supported through targeted advertising. In this case, the defendants have been accused of violation of US Patent 6,847,969, [...]

Palm to slash jobs after HP deal

Published on: 6th July, 2010

New stories from within Palm have showed that the company is dismissing employees through low-key means, as a consequence of the acquisition by HP. One of the recently laid off staffer has declared that Palm has given “welcome to HP” letters to employees it will keep. Palm said that it will make a decision concerning [...]

Direct purchases finally allowed at Zune Marketplace

Published on: 28th June, 2010

Microsoft has started to allow direct purchases for music by credit card at Zune Marketplace. As part of the Bing refresh, this move is meant to make simpler buying tracks resulted from search. It also makes possible for customers to skip buying Microsoft Points which were previously needed when they wanted to get any article [...]

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