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IBM could buy Sun Microsystems
Blog Comment Sun being bought by another company has been talked about many times before -- Dell has sometimes been the name floated in previous discussions. Dell has shipped Solaris on its servers before, and has little technology overlap with Sun -- no OS or...
[March 18, 2009, 11:36]
Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay
News The company, which provides digital distribution tools for internet cafes, will buy The Pirate Bay for cash and shares amounting to 60m kronor (£4.7m). The Pirate Bay file-sharing site, which is at the centre of a music piracy court case, is to be...
[June 30, 2009, 13:15]
Carphone Warehouse downplays talk of AOL UK buy
Talkback Personally speaking, I can't wait for a more professional outfit to get their hands on AOL. Customer service has declined to the point where it is non existent. I have stuck with AOL for many years and in the early days I swore by them.
[September 13, 2006, 8:28]
NHS to buy computers from Dixons
Blog Comment Hang on, so why dixons as well ? I hope that the ones being supplied by the manafacture direct will be free from all the trialware. I imagine the deal with dixons would involve managers being able to pop down to the local currys/PC World with their...
[August 19, 2008, 9:16]
News Burst: John Lewis to buy buy.com
News High street department store John Lewis is expected to announce Monday that it has purchased the UK operations of buy.com. Buy.com reported a loss of £18.6m in the fourth quarter of 2000, and closed its Australian operations in late 2000.
[February 5, 2001, 9:13]
Compaq to buy back up to $1bn of shares
News The PC maker said it plans to buy shares on the open market from time to time depending on market conditions. Compaq Computer on Friday said its board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $1bn worth of its common shares.
[December 1, 2000, 15:57]
Netscape to buy Kiva for $180m
News The companies said many businesses already use a combination of Netscape and Kiva software, including E*trade and Travelocity. Kiva won PCWeek's "Best Internet Software" award at Comdex.
[November 25, 1997, 9:55]
Want to buy Symantec's nuclear bunker?
Blog Comment I am not sure what the market rate for an underground house but 10 foot concrete walls have got to cut down those heating bills. Actually, why bother buying it at all - it would be the perfect place to claim squatters rights - just get in, wind the...
[February 12, 2008, 8:40]
Cisco to buy Allegro Systems
News In a move to tune up its part in the arena for virtual private network (VPN) services, Cisco Systems on Friday said it has agreed to acquire Allegro Systems for approximately $181m. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will exchange common stock...
[July 27, 2001, 17:02]
Times says BT to buy Demon
News Cliff Stanford, the company's CEO stands to make an estimated £30 million from the deal - not bad for the man who started the company from a boiler room in a cinema in Essex. James Gardiner, Demon's marketing manager, would not comment on the deal.
[April 3, 1998, 10:14]
Business Objects plays catch-up with SRC buy
News Business Objects plans to acquire privately held SRC Software for about $100m (£56.9m) in cash, a move that fills out the company's product line and ratchets up the competition with Cognos and Hyperion.
[July 22, 2005, 9:45]
MS rumoured to be interested in BT buy
News The firm spent $425 million to buy WebTV Networks last year. Far-fetched as the story sounds, it is lent a little credence by the fact that Microsoft has shown interest in several cable operators to bolster its plans to make interactive television...
[January 23, 1998, 9:30]
Adobe to buy Macromedia
Talkback I cant help feeling that this will not benefit users. By eliminating its competition, Adobe will now complete its stranglehold on the creative market.
[April 18, 2005, 11:15]
Adobe to buy Macromedia
Talkback I'm gutted I really loved Freehand, I hope that whatever takes its place is exactly like it if not better.
[April 18, 2005, 16:20]
Buy, buy, buy - IBM picks up analytics firm
News Continuing its acquisitive ways, IBM on Wednesday announced plans to buy privately held Alphablox, a maker of analytical software with about 60 employees. The purchase of Alphablox, which is expected to be completed this month, represents the...
[July 14, 2004, 16:40]
MS to buy Web site tool maker
News Microsoft will pay $20 million to NetCarta's parent CMG Information Services to get access to NetCarta's WebMapper suite of tools for authoring and monitoring activity on Web sites. NetCarta was due to announce version 2.0 of WebMapper tomorrow.
[December 10, 1996, 16:18]
ANALYSIS: 10 reasons why investors should buy tech stocks now
News The worrywarts predicting doom and gloom and the end of the most prolific bull market in the history of the world are the same people who told you Amazon.com was a "great buy" at $225 (£141.75) a share.
[April 17, 2000, 9:06]
Sun wants to buy Novell
Talkback I've seen netware since 2.2, decent file and print, better security and permissions, inherited rights, better directory than MS AD. Their biggest issue, Novell have always had a marketting problem, with their "port" to a linux based OS they are in...
[August 3, 2004, 19:56]
The best democracy money can buy
Talkback Quoting from memory: If only politicians get to decide what is bought and sold then the first things to be bought and sold will be the politicians themselves.
[January 16, 2006, 11:15]
Don't Buy Software, Buy Processes: A Briefing on the Art of Effective Enterprise Software Selection
White Papers Rule #1 in the art of effective software selection is that one doesn't buy software, but buys processes. People have seen the feature comparison charts outlining a particular software platform against its competitors with the subtly emblazoned...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
