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1. Spider acquires taste for green leaves

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Tuesday, 13 October 2009

   A spider that eats the tips of acacia plants rather than biting insects in its jaw and sucking them to death is probably the first predominantly vegetarian arachnid.A spider that eats the tips of acacia ...

2. Oxford University wonders whether Internet more important than Gutenberg

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 05 July 2009

   ... to make a general point about the internet. Even more extraordinary is the fact that the Bodleian Library will make  at least one existing run of print titles of the e-journals it acquires. "Electronic ...

3. NASA releases 99% complete topographic map of Earth

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Tuesday, 30 June 2009

   ...  ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched on Terra in December 1999. ASTER acquires images from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region, with spatial resolutions ranging ...

4. Microsoft buys Israeli company linked to Project Natal

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 24 June 2009

   Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of 3DV Systems, an Israeli company that specializes in advanced image sensing technology. A number of patents owned by 3DV Systems and Prime Sense have reportedly ...

5. Amazon acquires iPhone ebook reader maker

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 27 April 2009

   Lexcycle, which recently made waves with a free ebook reader application for the iPhone and iPod touch, today said that it has been acquired by Amazon.com.Chicago (IL) – Lexcycle, which recently made ...

6. Rambus acquires patents to move into mobile memory

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 07 April 2009

   Rambus said that it has purchased “a number of patents” known as “SipFlow” from Inapac Technology, which will allow the company to extend its reach into the mobile memory market. The move should result in ...

7. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 25 March 2009

   ... why Apple should build its own iPhone system-on-a-chip Apple acquires 3.6% of Imagination to secure graphics tech for future iPhone Intel increases share in Imagination to 3.06%, countering Apple's ...

8. Cisco Acquires Pure Digital for $590 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 March 2009

   Just as speculated earlier this month, Cisco Systems has officially acquired Pure Digital Technologies, a San Francisco based company, the maker of the highly popular Flip video camera, for $590 million. ...

9. Sun beaming from IBM attention

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Wednesday, 18 March 2009

   ... acquires the company. Will its development continue? Will it continue in the same way? Will we have to switchover to .NET technology because IBM begins changing the licensing for Java? While things ...

10. Apple to demo the next iPhone OS on March 17

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 March 2009

    ... Samsung technologies? 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone system-on-a-chip Apple acquires 3.6% of Imagination to secure graphics tech for future iPhones iPhone may get GPGPU acceleration ...

11. Apple acquires 3.6% of Imagination to secure graphics tech for future iPhones

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 18 December 2008

      Apple has taken a 3.6% stake in UK-based Imagination Technologies Group, a company which is known for its graphics technology blueprints that served for example as the foundation for Intel graphics ...

12. Microsoft’s Seadragon invades iPhone territory

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

    ... In fact, Seadragon Mobile is one of the best-written network-enabled applications for the iPhone we have seen so far. The smoothness and speed at which it acquires pixel data over a 3G cellular network ...

13. Symantec acquires MessageLabs, dives deep into SaaS

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 09 October 2008

      Symantec is aiming to build a significant presence in the increasingly lucrative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space with the announced $695 million acquisition of MessageLabs, a business email ...

14. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... eight-year legal battle follows. 1987: AMD acquires Monolithic Memories and enters the programmable logic business. 1988: AMD established the AMD Submicron Development Center which would later supply ...

15. 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone SoC (and 5 why it won't last)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 19 September 2008

    ... Power architecture and it is just as likely to happen with a new chip again. 3. Quality in limbo. Here is what I don’t get: Apple acquires the design talent of 100-or-so chip designers who created a ...

16. Impinj acquires Intel's UHF RFID reader chip business

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 11 July 2008

    UHF Gen 2 radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions provider Impinj has announced the acquisition of Intel Corporation's RFID operation, a business created by Intel's New Business Initiatives ...

17. Dirty laundry alert: Xandros acquires Linspire

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 01 July 2008

      Former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony has posted information about a yet announced sale of Linux distributor Linspire to rival Xandros. Carmony accuses company founder of “pulling off this deal” without ...

18. Can you replace your landline for $10 per month?

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    ... that your VoIP phone will be out during the time the voice terminal re-acquires a new IP address as well. Voice quality issues is another concern with VoIP services, but users affected by those issues ...

19. Nokia acquires remaining shares of Symbian, donates software to open source

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 24 June 2008

      Ten cellphone and telecommunications industry heavyweights joined in a big group hug today, positioning Symbian OS as a central software platform for future cellphones and mobile devices. Nokia ...

20. Apple acquires handwriting recognition technology from Chinese developer

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 May 2008

      Apple may not have developed the handwriting recognition feature for the upcoming iPhone 2.0 software in-house after all. Instead, it appears that the company has acquired this technology from ...

21. Condé Nast/Wired acquires Ars Technica

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 16 May 2008

    Condé Nast has acquired popular technology blog Ars Technica, we’ve confirmed. The site will become part of Wired Digital. Wired Digital assets include Wired.com and Reddit (acquired in 2006). The acquisition ...

22. AOL acquires Sphere

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 15 April 2008

    New York (NY) - AOL today announced that it has acquired Sphere, an online search company that specializes in merging different multimedia results to increase advertising exposure. Sphere, based in ...

23. EMC acquires Iomega

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 08 April 2008

    A few weeks ago, EMC’s offer for Iomega looked a bit like the Microhoo game on a much smaller level. But it turns out that Iomega wanted to play just a little and turned out to be an easy catch for EMC. ...

24. Microsoft acquires another web advertising firm

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 14 March 2008

    Microsoft today “announced plans” to acquire Rapt, a provider of advertising yield management solutions. Microsoft said that Rapt’s software will be integrated into the Atlas Publisher Suite, part ...

25. Microsoft acquires desktop management startup Kidaro

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 13 March 2008

    Redmond (WA) - Microsoft has announced that it will purchase Kidaro, a computer startup specializing in deskop virtualization, for an undisclosed sum of money.  It plans to use Kidaro's technology ...

26. Yahoo intros social networking for cellphones, acquires Maven Networks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 February 2008

    Yahoo today provided first details about oneConnect, a mobile communications service that combines messaging with social networking features. In a wave of announcements, the company also said that it ...

27. Fox acquires spiritual website Beliefnet

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 04 December 2007

    Fox today said that it has agreed to acquire Beliefnet, a website that aims to enable “consumers to better understand their faith and build diverse spiritual communities.” Beliefnet will become ...

28. Equity group acquires DSL pioneer Covad for $304 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 28 October 2007

    Platinum Equity announced that it will be purchasing Covad for $1.02 per share, which represents a 59% premium over the closing price of the firm’s shares on Friday, October 26.  Platinum Equity ...

29. EA acquires Super Computer International

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 05 October 2007

    Electronic Arts announced that it has purchased Super Computer International (SCI), an Atlanta-based maker of gaming client applications. SCI is mainly known for PlayLinc, a online game browsing and messaging ...

30. Activision acquires developer Bizarre Creations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 26 September 2007

    Activision today announced that it has acquired Bizarre Creations, a video game developer that specializes in racing games. Santa Monica (CA) - Activision today announced that it has acquired Bizarre ...

31. Intel acquires physics software maker Havok

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 15 September 2007

    Intel gets more involved with game developers as the company announced that it will acquire Havok, best known as developer of a software-based physics solution for video games. Santa Clara (CA) – ...

32. VMware acquires virtualization tool maker Dunes Technologies

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 11 September 2007

    VMware will acquire Dunes Technologies, maker of advanced virtualization tools for remote management. San Francisco (CA) - An announcement made today at VMworld 2007 brings with it the promise of a more ...

33. TG Daily Special: The bleeding edge of 3D face recognition

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 04 September 2007

    ... page: Scan time, Operations, Accuracy, Capture software             Scan time The process acquires the digital image data from the multiple cameras in 2 ms.  Anyone ...

34. Acer acquires Gateway

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 27 August 2007

    Acer today said that it has agreed to purchase Gateway for about $710 million in cash. Taipei (Taiwan) – Acer today said that it has agreed to purchase Gateway for about $710 million in cash.  ...

35. Western Digital acquires disk manufacturer Komag for $1 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 June 2007

    Western Digital (WDC) today announced the acquisition of Komag, a developer and manufacturer of thin-film disk technologies, which enable the world’s second largest hard drive company to actually ...

36. Google acquires FeedBurner, Peakstream

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 06 June 2007

    Google has confirmed that it has acquired Peakstream, a developer of application interfaces for massively parallel processing as well as FeedBurner, a provider of feed distribution and management tools ...

37. Nintendo acquires developer Monolith

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 27 April 2007

    Nintendo has acquired Monolith Soft, the name behind the epic RPG series Xenosaga. Redmond (WA) - Nintendo has acquired Monolith Soft, the name behind the epic RPG series Xenosaga. According to IGN, ...

38. Best Buy acquires Speakeasy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 27 March 2007

    Best Buy announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Speakeasy, a provider of online services including voice-over IP and other IT services. Minneapolis (MN) - Best Buy announced today ...

39. ECS acquires Uniwill, sets goal of 3 million notebooks for 2007

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 26 December 2006

      Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), a leading motherboard producer in Taiwan, formally acquired Uniwill Computer, a second-tier notebook Taiwanese PC maker, on December 25 and expects its OEM/ODM ...

40. Micron acquires Avago image sensor business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 12 December 2006

      Micron Technology today announced the acquisition of Avago Technologies' image sensor business. Micron Technology today announced the acquisition of Avago Technologies' image sensor business. The ...

41. BitTorrent acquires µTorrent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 08 December 2006

    BitTorrent today announced it has acquired µTorrent, a lightweight and efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent today announced it has acquired µTorrent, a lightweight ...

42. MTV acquires video game developer Harmonix

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 30 October 2006

    Viacom's MTV Networks today announced that it has finalized a deal to acquire Harmonix, a video game development company that specializes in music/rhythym based games. The $175 million acquisition gives ...

43. AMD's "Fusion" processor to merge CPU and GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 October 2006

    ... and offer a Centrino-like platform as well as integrated solutions for commercial and media systems. And there will be a processor with built-in graphics. Behind the deal: AMD acquires ATI ... The announcement ...

44. AMD-ATI merger receives clearance in Taiwan

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 October 2006

    ... Industry under the Investment Canada Act and other customary closing conditions. AMD expects to finalize the deal within this month. Related article: AMD acquires ATI for $5.4 billion  ...

45. EA acquires Battlefield developer

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 October 2006

    Electronic Arts today announced a deal to acquire game developer Digital Illusions CE. Effective immediately, the acuisition brings the creators of the Battlefield series under full ownership of EA.  ...

46. Update: HP acquires enthusiast PC maker VoodooPC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 September 2006

    Hewlett-Packard is buying its way into the high-end PC market: Rather than establishing its own brand, the company decided to swallow VoodooPC, one of the larger enthusiast PC brands in the U.S. The deal ...

47. Buena Vista acquires UK game studio Climax racing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 September 2006

    Buena Vista Games, the video game division of Disney, today announced that it has purchased the UK development studio Climax Racing. According to Buena Vista, this will be company s first game studio ...

48. Vivendi Games acquires Secret Lair and Studio Ch'in

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 September 2006

    Video game publisher Vivendi Games today announced that they have purchased two new development studios, Secret Lair Studios and Studio Ch'in. The acquisition adds to Vivendi's portfolio of six development ...

49. AMD-ATI merger clears federal hurdles in U.S., Canada, Germany

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 06 September 2006

    ... shares of AMD common stock. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year. Related article: AMD acquires ATI for $5.4 billion  ...

50. Vivendi acquires BMG in $2.1 billion deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 06 September 2006

    Vivendi announced that it has agreed to acquire the Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) for 1.63 billion Euro or about $2.08 billion. Vivendi announced that it has agreed to acquire the Bertelsmann Music Group ...