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Western Digital’s Acquisition of Hitachi GST is Worth $4.8 Billion

By Cherr Aira Mar 7, 2011

It’s a done deal: Western Digital is purchasing its competition. Another enormous contract shocked the tech community as Western Digital (WD) hands over $4.3 billion in cash and stock transactions to complete the buy-out of…

Google Purchases UK Comparison Shopping Site BeatThatQuote.com for $61.5 Million

By Kyt Dotson Mar 7, 2011

Adding to their long line of acquisitions, Google has just purchased the UK-based comparison shopping site BeatThatQuote.com. The purchase price has been set at £37.7 million (about $6.1 million.) The site allows consumers rate…

Business Tablet Apps Take You to the Cloud and Beyond: This Week’s Best

By Maria Deutscher Mar 7, 2011

Tablets are gaining more and more traction in the personal, as well as professional space. With the recent launch of the Motorola Xoom in stores and the unveiling of the iPad 2, it becomes…

Bing Gets to Play with Angry Birds

By Steven Hodson Mar 7, 2011

Bing has been making a lot of rather interesting moves lately but none of them are as fun oriented as the news today, via the Bing Blog, that Bing is teaming with Rovio, the…

Netflix Streaming isn’t a Substitute for Subscription TV

By George Ou Mar 7, 2011

A number of media pundits like Cecilia Kang are all over this notion that Netflix is somehow the biggest threat to the cable and telephone companies when the facts simply don’t support that theory,…

PrimeSense Kinect Technology Makes Its Way into Fitness via MayaFit

By Kyt Dotson Mar 7, 2011

We’ve seen the Microsoft Kinect become the center of a mindstorm of innovation involving gesture controls, animation, and numerous other applications in the homebrew hacker sphere—and, of course, the framework for building on top…

Skype Revenue Up 20% in 2010; Now Looking to Advertising on Road to Next Year’s IPO

By Kyt Dotson Mar 7, 2011

It’s been news for a while that Skype intends to make their initial public offering soon. Until recently, “soon” meant this year, but the company’s newly appointed CEO, Tony Bates, would like to wait…

Urban Mapping finds Retail Locations with your Subway Ticket

By Maria Deutscher Mar 7, 2011

Location-based services donned a front-row seat in the convergence of digital and real-life experiences, and following LivingSocial and the MapQuest Android app are the services aiming to capitalize on your location, multiplied by as…

Competitiveness Ramps Up Around Patent Lawsuits, Microsoft & Google Fast Friends

By Madalena David Mar 7, 2011

A few months ago Microsoft joined the travel-related coalition against Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, a travel data company vital for, among others, the Bing flight search tool, to which Google later…

Big Cloud Developments with GigaSpaces’ New Platform for SaaS, PaaS

By Cherr Aira Mar 7, 2011

Just before we wrap up Q1, cloud scaling solutions provider Gigaspaces has another surprise for the cloud and its users—a second generation cloud-enablement platform. The first generation enterprise application scaling and deployment to the…

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Google Purchases UK Comparison Shopping Site BeatThatQuote.com for $61.5 Million

Business Tablet Apps Take You to the Cloud and Beyond: This Week’s Best

Bing Gets to Play with Angry Birds

Netflix Streaming isn’t a Substitute for Subscription TV

PrimeSense Kinect Technology Makes Its Way into Fitness via MayaFit

Skype Revenue Up 20% in 2010; Now Looking to Advertising on Road to Next Year’s IPO

Urban Mapping finds Retail Locations with your Subway Ticket

Competitiveness Ramps Up Around Patent Lawsuits, Microsoft & Google Fast Friends

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