Microsoft Corp. plans to acquire aQuantive Inc., a digital marketing services agency, for around US$6 billion in order to grow its Internet advertising business, it was announced Friday.

Dell Inc. is planning to sell its first convertible tablet PC later this year. The PC maker revealed that it is working on the machine and showed a prototype of it on a company blog.

Siemens AG Sunday named Merck & Co. Inc.'s Peter Löscher as its new president and CEO in an effort to break with recent scandals that have plagued the company.

After several years of development, Fujitsu Ltd. has improved its electronic paper technology to the point where it has begun exploring its commercial use in displays.

Strong sales of digital consumer electronic gadgets helped Sony Corp. achieve record sales and higher net profit in the financial year just-ended but shipments of PlayStation 3 consoles missed their target, the company said Wednesday.

Google Inc. will make a significant push toward integrating results from a variety of its search engines in an attempt to deliver as relevant and comprehensive a result set as possible to search queries.

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Oracle Corp. plans to pay US$495 million to buy Agile Software Corp., a maker of product lifecycle management software.

Mozilla Corp. developers are experimenting with a service that lets users store online content on a remote server and access that information on cell phones.

Microsoft Corp. reportedly wants open-source software users to pay royalties on 235 alleged patent violations.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is putting the finishing touches on its DDR3 memory chips ahead of their commercial release later this year.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will make a quad-core chip for desktop PCs, replacing its venerable Athlon processor with the new "Phenom" design in an attempt to compete better with Intel Corp.

The retraction of features, divulged on general manager of virtualization strategy Mike Neil's blog, comes on the heels of recently announced delays for the first public beta of the hypervisor, code-named Viridian.

Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander says his company is ready for competition from Apple Inc.'s iPhone, due out next month.

Intel Corp. launched the "Santa Rosa" upgrade of its Centrino notebook platform Wednesday, running on PCs from Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Gateway Inc. and others.

A string of payment card issuers have confirmed that they will introduce contactless "wave and pay" cards from September in the U.K.

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday reported strong growth in revenue and profit for a fiscal third quarter in which it made several acquisitions that it expects to help power Web 2.0.

An analyst who covers IBM called the report "hogwash," saying IBM's business is doing well and that the company's overall number of employees has gone up in the past five years.

Users looking to add more DRAM (dynamic RAM) to their PCs are likely to continue to see bargains throughout May and June, as prices of the memory chips continue to crash.

Microsoft Corp. has closed the public testing period for Windows Live Hotmail and has begun a months-long process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its Hotmail Web mail service, the company will announce Monday.