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Acquisitions

Is The New Dell Phone A Palm?

June 11, 2009

It’s been a while since we have heard anything from Dell about their supposed entrance into the smartphone market. This past March, Michael Dell said “It is true that we are exploring smaller-screen devices. We don’t have any announcements to share today, but stay tuned as when we have new news we will share that [...]

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Amazon Buys Stanza, Popular eReader App For iPhone

April 27, 2009

Once touted as the company taking on Amazon’s Kindle by developing an eReader app for the iPhone (Stanza), Lexcycle has now been acquired by well, Amazon. Stanza allows users to browse a library of around 100,000 books and periodicals for the iPhone, many of them in the ePub format — a widely accepted standard for [...]

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Just How Good Does The MSFT Deal Look To Yahoo’s Numbers?

April 14, 2009

Jefferies analyst Youssef Squali ran some of the numbers on Yahoo’s (YHOO) potential search/display ad deal with Microsoft (MSFT) in a report today. His notes from SAI. Keep in mind this is based on a partnership, not an all-out asset swap.

Outsourcing search infrastructure to Microsoft could save Yahoo $1 billion to $1.3 billion per year.
A [...]

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Cisco Goes Flip Mode

March 19, 2009

Cisco Systems Inc, the company which should be buying Sun Micrososytems, has announced it will be buying buying Flip digital camcorder-maker, Pure Digital Technologies
Cisco, the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment said today it would pay $590 million in stock to purchase all of privately held Pure Digital’s shares.
Cisco is attracted to Pure Digital’s [...]

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Amazon’s Latest Blow To eBay, Stops Offering BillMeLater

January 3, 2009

Amazon.com, which fared the best out of all online shopping destinations this holiday season, has stopped supporting BillMeLater, eBay’s latest questionable acquisition which ran a bill of nearly $1 billion. It was widely speculated that Amazon would drop the ‘buy now, pay later’ service considering their move in the past to cut Paypal after eBay [...]

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