HP Enterprise Services is the new brand name of EDS
World’s largest personal computer maker Hewlett Packard has announced that they are renaming their EDS subsidiary as HP Enterprise Services.
HP had acquired EDS last year and it has become an important part of their product offerings. EDS acquisition was part of a 13.9 billion dollar [...]
Google considering acquisitions in place of hiring
We might soon start seeing Google acquiring small web start-ups in the coming months.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has revealed that the company is considering acquiring companies instead of hiring individuals.
He believes that the company could go ahead with one small acquisition every month.
Schmidt said: “Acquisitions are [...]
SpringSource acquired by VMware for USD 420 million
VMware has announced that they are acquiring SpringSource for $420 million.
This is the biggest acquisition deal signed by VMware in its history.
VMware specializes in providing virtualization solutions which has become a huge industry in the recent times.
SpringSource provides solutions to companies to develop JAVA based [...]
Yahoo acquires OMG.com for just USD 80,000
TechCrunch is reporting that the US based internet media giant Yahoo has just acquired a cool domain name.
Yahoo has acquired OMG.com for just around USD 80,000. This is a pretty good buy for the company considering the domain name sounds pretty hip and has just three letters.
Yahoo [...]
Google acquires On2 Technologies
Google might have sold their radio advertising business to WideOrbit, but they are investing more in video technologies.
The search engine giant has announced that they are taking over On2 Technologies which is primarily a video technology solutions provider.
The deal is worth around USD 106.5 million.
Google spoke about this acquisition: “Today video is [...]
Yahoo: Bing has not changed anything
Market analysts believe that Yahoo committed a blunder by not accepting Microsoft’s original acquisition offer.
Microsoft later showed interest in acquiring Yahoo’s search engine operations. Even that deal did not materialize.
The software giant continued working on their own search engine technology. And they have just launched Bing which is a [...]
Yahoo still open to Microsoft provided the offer is good
Yahoo continues to play games with Microsoft which has already cost the company a lot.
The market value of Yahoo has a company has gone down considerably since they refused the first offer made by Microsoft.
The company is also now under a brand new leadership with [...]
Yahoo considering acquiring social media properties!
Yahoo might be struggling to compete against Google and Microsoft but they are still looking for good deals in the market.
Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh said in a statement at the Reuters Global Technology Summit: “It’s a good time to be buying now.”
He added: “I can guarantee you there will [...]
WP.com now owned by Automattic
Automattic continues to make small new acquisitions to further boost their offerings.
They have now acquired the domain name WP.com from Yahoo.
They are currently redirecting WP.com to WordPress.com.
The developers behind the popular blogging platform are now looking for suggestions from their users for what to do with this brand new [...]
Western Digital acquires SiliconSystems for solid state drive technology
Western Digital has announced that they are acquiring solid-state drive maker SiliconSystems for $65 million.
This deal would help Western Digital expand their product offerings.
SiliconSystems was established in 2002 and they specialize in manufacturing SSD products for communications, industrial, embedded systems, medical, military, and aerospace applications.
Western Digital [...]
