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Cisco Grits Teeth, Ups Tandberg Bid
Cisco is finding that sometimes acquisitions aren't quite as easy to do as showing the money. This morning it upped its bid for Tandberg from $3 billion to roughly $3.4 billion. Some holders of sizeable chunks of Tandberg stock had objected to the Cisco offer as inadequate. That initial offer was 1...
Apple Targets Google; Advertising May Lead to Affordable Tablet
Recent signs suggest that Apple is considering advertising as an important part of its future business model. While that might tie in to the company's reported plans to bring a tablet computer to market, it also seems to be part of a broader interest in targeting Google.
Google Becomes (Almost) Full-Fledged Telecom, Vonage, Skype, Others In Sites
Google just bought VoIP software vendor and service provider Gizmo5, and everyone over at Vonage and Skype must be quaking in their shoes.
Google Android Will Increasingly Win According to Gartner [UPDATE: Palm Hurting?]
Just a few days ago I was arguing that platform would beat machine in the mobile wars. I specifically referred to Google and Apple, though meant the point more generally. But it appears that some Gartner research, leading to a 2012 projection, would back up the argument.
Microsoft, Sony Were Right, Consoles Are the Future. Where's Apple?
Sony and Microsoft once predicted that game consoles would become the entertainment centers of the future. It looks like they were right, and that might be a problem for Apple.
AOL, the $200 Million Coming Disaster
Time Warner (TWX) filed an 8-K with the SEC today and gave a preview of the AOL spin-off. It's coming quick and it's going to be expensive -- and messy.
Intel to Pay AMD $1.25 Billion; the Antitrust Cost Keeps Rising
Intel (INTC) will pay AMD $1.25 billion to settle all the antitrust and patent infringement suits that have been flying about. But this isn't going to come close to letting Intel put antitrust issues behind, and some of the biggest prices the company will pay are yet to come.
HP Acquires 3Com, Tweaks Cisco's Nose, Tosses Gauntlet to IBM, Dell
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) has announced that it is acquiring networking company 3-Com (3COM) for $2.7 billion. The aggressive move counters expansions by Dell into services and sometimes partner, sometimes rival Cisco into servers and just about every aspect of network-related offering it can acquire, as well as taking on IBM on a more toe-to-toe basis.
Yahoo's Bartz Dissed by CES [UPDATE]
It looks like the Consumer Electronics Show, which was supposed to have Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz as a keynote speaker, has dumped her in favor of Qualcomm's CEO Paul Jacobs. Whatever the reason, it says a lot about her industry standing.
Oracle and Sun: Monty Widenius Advisor on the Deal
I got an email from Florian Mueller, an advisor to MySQL creator and founder Monty Widenius, WHO THINKS THAT Oracle has been refusing to understand the importance of MySQL independence to the EU. But I still think something a bit more intentional is going on, with a multi-faceted strategy to knock off the database upstart.
Cisco Raising Money, Maybe After Something Big
Cisco has clearly been on an acquisition tear. Now an offer of unsecured notes to raise a total of $5 billion raises the question of what company it's after now.
EU Tells Oracle and Sun No Way; Maybe Oracle Wants Sun to Die
EU regulators have filed a formal objection to Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun. This is exactly the scenario that was most likely to cause an implosion of the entire deal, and now it's happened. But maybe that's what Oracle wanted.
Apple iPhone vs. Google Android: Machine vs. Platform
The handset market is seeing a battle of device versus platform. And history suggests that the natural winner will be platform, much to the pleasure of Google and eventual dismay of Apple.
Motorola Droid Limited Memory; Over Promise Ability, Under Deliver Power
Chasing down some rumors I heard on Twitter, it seems that while the Droid may be getting some good press, both Motorola and Verizon seem to be downplaying some numbers that suggest a potentially more limited phone experience than many users might like.
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