Rumour Mill : Microsoft To Buy RIM (And More Perhaps)

Microsoft could be looking to buy Blackberry Manufacturer, Research in Motion (RIM), in what could potentially be the mother of all technology acquisitions, just days after the company released its first touchscreen Smartphone

FRI 10 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Tata Buys Citigroup Outsourcing Services For USD 505 million

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has acquired Citigroup’s back office operations in India in a deal worth USD 505 million in cash

FRI 10 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Symantec Snaps Uo MessageLabs For USD 695 million

Symantec the leading security software developer is all set to purchase UK based MessageLabs in a deal worth $695 million

THU 09 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

HP Culls 3300 UK Jobs As EDS Integration Painfully Marches On

Hewlett Packard has indicated that it plans to slash more than 3300 jobs in UK in the next two years following its acquisition of EDS

THU 09 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Iridium sold on for small change

For a measly $22.9 million, Greenhill, a private investment firm, has bought Iridium. You can read a followup to this article here including comments from Iridium

THU 25 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Yahoo and AOL Start Talks About Possible USD 10 bn Mega Merger

Time Warner's Limping AOL internet business and besieged Yahoo! are about to enter talks about a possible mega merger of two of the most celebrated internet brands

WED 24 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Carphone Warehouse Wants To Buy Tiscali Broadband... Again

Carphone Warehouse, UK's third largest broadband provider after Virginmedia and BT, has reiterated its interest in buying the British part of Italian Telecoms company, Tiscali with more than 1.8 million subscribers

MON 22 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Best Buy Buys Napster For USD127 million, Preparing Global Surge Against Apple's iTunes

Best Buy has had a busy 2008. After having struck a GBP 1 billion deal with Carphone Warehouse earlier in May, it has now announced the purchase of controversial P2P pioneer Napster for USD 121 million, a 85 percent premium based on their last week's share price

TUE 16 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

HP To Hand over 25,000 Pink Slips In Bid To Slash Costs

HP, The world's biggest computer manufacturer, said yesterday that it would be reducing its workforce by nearly 25,000 over the next three years as it tries to assimilate the 145,000 or so employees from Electronic Data Systems which it acquired earlier this year

TUE 16 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Google Snaps Up South Korean Blogging Software Company TNC

In a bid to expand its influence in Asian market, Google has acquired a blogging software firm from South Korea, Tatter and Company (TNC), for some undisclosed amount

MON 15 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News