“We do not comment on market rumor or speculation,” Google said in a statement. Valve didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Google is on the brink of buying noted video game maker Valve Software, according to a report in The Inquirer that cites “well-placed sources.”
See update below that dashes some cold water on the [...]
“What we’re testing this year are the synergies,” Donahoe told the Financial Times. “If the synergies are strong, we’ll keep it in our portfolio. If not, we’ll reassess it.”
But the question about Skype, which eBay acquired for $2.5 billion in 2005, has never been whether it’s a decent business, it’s whether it’s a good [...]
On Monday, eBay won a court victory against Tiffany. The jeweler accused eBay of profiting from sales of counterfeit Tiffany goods, but the judge in the case found that it’s up to brand owners to police for phony products.
Analysts had expected earnings of 41 cents on revenue of $2.17 billion.
The Web’s largest online auctioneer said [...]
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System-on-chips, or SOCs, are pretty much what they sound like: complete computer systems on a single chip, including the processor, memory, graphics, networking, and all the regulator chips needed to manage things like power consumption. ARM’s licensees, such as Texas Instruments, Samsung, and Nvidia build SOCs around ARM’s processor cores for smartphones such as [...]
The merger is not a done deal yet, but both groups say that there needs to be further consolidation in tech lobbying. The industry has several other trade groups as well: including the Consumer Electronics Association, the Computer & Communications Industry Association, the Computing Technology Industry Association, the Business Software Alliance, and the Information Technology [...]
Greenfield’s Internet survey solutions (ISS) business collects, organizes, and sells consumer and business survey data to market research firms as well as offers real-time survey sampling. But the service does not fit in Microsoft’s game plan for its Live Search.
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it’s planning a quick hand-off in its pending acquisition of Greenfield Online, [...]
The funding comes from the National Science Foundation, and it’s in the form of a three-year grant that will span about $4 million per year. More specifically, it’s for GENI’s “design and risk-reduction prototyping,” and will involve contracting 29 university research teams. The Internet has been around for quite some time, GENI’s team argues, and [...]
There’s a good piece by Saul Hansell over on The New York Times’ “Bits” blog.
Verizon’s Fios service has most of the necessary characteristics, but even Fios carries video in pretty much the same way copper-based cable systems do, except using an optical carrier over fiber. (Wikipedia has a decent explanation here.)
Hansell goes on to [...]
The Z1U is a half step from being a consumer product, but managers found that the camera fit with their guerrilla-journalism style.
Harvey Levin, TMZ's managing editor, was among those at the company who recognized that the Web and digital technology could give it an advantage over rivals.
“It’s the same sort of hardware that a [...]
And that advantage is only growing as more applications are being written for the
iPhone and, thus, the iPod Touch. For example, Apple demonstrated games such as Spore running on the new iPod Touch. The new Zunes do come with two games, but they sound more like the kinds of games Apple had for the [...]
