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Court Dismisses Gamers Lawsuit Over Microsoft Activision Purchase

US federal court dismisses lawsuit from gamers over Microsoft's $69 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard

2 years ago

Germany Favours Blocking China Takeover Of Elmos’ Chip Production

National security concerns. German government looks set to block Chinese takeover of Dortmund-based company Elmos

2 years ago

Yahoo Buys Language Recognition Start-Up SkyPhrase

The natural language processing technology could help improve search, and do a lot more

11 years ago

Imagination Increases MIPS Bid To $80 Million

The UK chip designer finds itself in a bidding war against Israeli company

12 years ago

PayPal Buys Credit Card Photo Scanner For Mobile Payment

Card.io takes pictures of your credit cards, for totally legitimate purposes

12 years ago

Microsoft Confirms $6.2 Billion aQuantive Write Down

A strategic acquisition made five years ago appears to have backfired

12 years ago

Nokia To Sell Vertu Luxury Division

The Vertu phones are made of gold, but they run Symbian. What sort of luxury is that?

13 years ago

EMC And NetApp Poised To Fight Over Green Storage Company?

EMC and NetApp are eyeing up the all-Flash storage firm XtremIO

13 years ago

SAP Buys Syclo, The Mobile Enterprise Specialists

The acquisition should make BYOD with SAP relatively painless

13 years ago

IBM Buys DemandTec In Cloud Analytics Move

IBM is coughing up an impressive $440m (£280m) to acquire cloud analytics player DemandTec

13 years ago

Skype CEO To Become President Of Microsoft Voice

Skype will carry more adverts under Microsoft rule, and Xbox will become a home videoconference suite

14 years ago