European media group Vivendi plans to acquire a majority stake in leading computer games publisher Activision and merge the company with its own gaming unit to form what will likely be the world's largest third-party publisher of computer games.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is warming to the idea of building a chip manufacturing plant in India, which would be a significant breakthrough for the country's high-tech ambitions.

Platinum Equity LLC will acquire Covad Communications Corp. for about US$304 million, making the communications services company the latest technology company to sell to a private equity firm.

Dell Inc. CEO Michael Dell hinted Monday that his company could be shopping for more acquisition targets, and that they could be larger than the companies it has acquired to date.

BEA Systems Inc.'s board of directors has named an acquisition price to competitor and suitor Oracle Corp.: US$21 a share, $4 more than Oracle's initial offer.

Acer Inc. on Wednesday announced the completion of its acquisition of Gateway Inc., making it officially the third largest PC vendor in the world.

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Letölthető az Adobe Flex Builder Linux nyilvános alfaverziója. A plugin az Adobe Flex Builder 3 funkcionalitásán alapul.

In a move to jump-start growth in the business intelligence arena, SAP AG will acquire Business Objects SA for about ?4.8 billion (US$6.78 billion).

Memóriachipek gyártására alapított vegyesvállalatot a Sony és az Infineon leányvállalata. A cél a veszteségek lefaragása.

Technikai leírás, dokumentáció, prezentáció készítése, eLearning - ezt kínálja a Technical Communication Suite kollekció.

Microsoft Corp. this week blamed "human error" on the part of its IT staff for a server problem that caused the company's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation service to incorrectly tag legitimate users of Windows XP and Windows Vista as software pirates.

Acer Inc. plans to acquire Gateway Inc. in a deal worth US$710 million that Acer says will make it the world's third-largest PC vendor.

Dell Inc. has agreed to acquire ASAP Software Inc. in a move to meet demand from large customers for tools and services that help manage their software assets.

Second-quarter net profit soared at Nokia Corp. thanks to a large one-time gain from the company's new telecommunications equipment manufacturing venture with Siemens AG.

A government audit of four U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) centers found US$6.4 million worth of missing or misplaced IT equipment, according to a report released Tuesday.

The war of words between Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab and rival Rising Tech, has intensified after Kaspersky slapped a defamation lawsuit on the Chinese antivirus provider following its recent controversial comments.

Researchers have demonstrated disk write speeds one hundred times faster than current hard drives. The method uses a laser to heat the recording surface and alter its magnetic field. There is no equivalent read speed increase though.

Each 8GB iPhone sold by Apple Inc. puts US$333 more in the till than the device cost to build, a market research company said Tuesday after tearing apart the new phone.

LG Electronics Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the world's largest contract manufacturer of laptop PCs over the infringement of four patents related to DVD (digital video disc) technology, the company said Wednesday.