Google Acquires 3D Desktop Manager BumpTop

You might not have heard of BumpTop before, but now that Google has acquired the company, you can be certain that more folks will compose out of it. The company churned out a pretty nice multi-touch 3D desktop design that could be implemented into Windows 7 and OS X, and with Google’s acquisition of the [...]

Lala Shutting Down On May 31st

After Apple’s acquisition of Lala, many speculated that it was only a matter of duration before the service would be shutdown, and the fateful announcement is now out of the bag. Come May 31st, Lala will be stopping its music-streaming service, and no new users will be accepted. The good news for existing users is [...]

Apple Purchases Mobile Assistant App Siri

We weren’t joking when we said that there is an acquisition by either Google or Apple nearly every other week, and hot on the heels of Google’s acquisition of LabPixies, Apple has just acquired Siri, a company that makes a virtual assistant app. The app is capable of suggesting places for you to go enjoy [...]

HP buys Palm, acquires key smartphone technology

HP has announced that it will purchase Palm for about $1.2B in cash, which is about a 30% premium on the company’s market value when it was announced. For Palm, it simply means “survival”, but for HP, that could mean having a shot at controlling its own fate in a very competitive market. In some [...]

Google Acquires Widget Creator LabPixies

It seems that there is an acquisition by Google or Apple every other week, and now it’s Google’s turn. The search engine giant has just snapped up LabPixies, the company that Google works with to create many of the widgets on its personalized portal, iGoogle. While the exact sum of the acquisition wasn’t mentioned, word [...]

ARM CEO Dismisses Apple Takeover Talks

News was going around yesterday that Apple could be considering an acquisition of ARM, who are the folks behind the popular ARM processors used in many devices. Now the CEO of ARM, Warren East, has come out to pour cold water on such a move, stating that with ARM’s market capitalization of more than £3bn [...]

Rumor: Apple Planning To Acquire ARM For $8bn?

This is still very much a rumor at that point in date, so we’d propose you take it with a pinch of salt. Word is going around the ARM Holdings, the company behind the popular ARM processors, could be acquired by Apple for around $8 billion dollars. Despite it still being a rumor, shares of [...]

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