When Oracle acquired Sun microsoystems back in 2009, situation was similar. Oracle bought Sun microsystems that cashed out to $9 billion, was world’s biggest tech acquisition of that time. But Google, with bigger cash, beats … Read more
Q3 of 2010 is near its end and we’ve annual report of acquisitions by Top Tech Firms coming from various Market research firms. Most shocking part of the story is that Microsoft has announced zero … Read more
You won’t see this happening everyday. The Chip giant buys a security software giant, out of nowhere. Intel, the biggest chip-hardware player, is buying software/security maker McAfee for $7.7 billion, a huge 60% premium over yesterday’s market … Read more
The Telco equipment manufacturer giant, Nokia Siemens Networks, has agreed to purchase the network equipment division of Motorola for $1.2 billion. The business proposition is easy: The dying Motorola’s business would prove out to be … Read more
Since long, Google wanted you to set iGoogle as your homepage. No wonder, iGoogle gives you a number of useful widgets from email to social apps but most of the time you prefer sticking with … Read more
Bharti Airtel, India’s mobile and Internet services giant having 118 million subscribers, will acquire 70 percent stake in Warid Telecom International, 4th largest mobile operator in Bangladesh. The acquisition is estimated to be around $300 … Read more
Apple has acquired (as per multiple sources) the Mobile advertising company: Quatro Wireless. Previously, Google had acquired AdMob for $750 million, and here is apple acquiring a similar company for $275Million. Both innovative start-ups are … Read more
Google continues it’s never ending endeavour to capture the web, acquires mobile advertising company AdMob and VoIP startup Gizmo5. Let’s discuss both acquisitions in detail. AdMob Acquisition This is Google’s 3rd largest acquisition ever. Google announced … Read more
The Pirate Bay was shut down by its ISP two days ago but the story is far from over. After several false-starts, the Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X has approved its CEO’s plans to … Read more
Nortel is long in news now. Earlier, we have talked about Avaya’s plan with Nortel. And today that fate of Nortel has been taken further, Ericsson has won the bidding over the wireless division of … Read more
GoldenGate is a provider of real-time integration software. Information Software giant Oracle is buying Silicon Valley real-time data firm GoldenGate Software, for an undisclosed sum. “With the addition of GoldenGate, Oracle expects to help our … Read more
Th famous Idiom of “Necessity is the mother of Invention” might see a change in future. The Recession brings cost cutting, tighter time schedules, faster deliveries, efficient utilization of resources and the most important, Innovation. … Read more
It’s the day that will be remembered in history as the Sun-set of one Era of Innovation as Sun Microsystems dissolves into the Information leader Oracle. It will bring a new Sun rise tomorrow as … Read more
Updated: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market. … Read more
The Oracle Corporation, the technology information company, announced Monday that it would acquire a rival, Sun Microsystems, for $9.50 a share, or about $7.4 billion. The agreement with Oracle came about two weeks after I.B.M. … Read more