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(AP) -- Employees of Internet auction site eBay shared confidential information gained from Craigslist with other employees developing eBay's own online classifieds business, an eBay executive said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news179646940.html Technology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:56:15 EST news179646940 Switzerland-based Logitech is buying video-conferencing equipment firm LifeSize Communications in a 405-million-dollar deal expected to close next month. http://www.physorg.com/news177347836.html Technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:50:01 EST news177347836 (AP) -- Google Inc. is buying mobile advertising network AdMob for $750 million, underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to ensure its marketing machine reaches the growing number of people surfing the Web on phones. http://www.physorg.com/news176995839.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:31:19 EST news176995839 (AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. reported a 30 percent drop in third-quarter earnings Monday as it couldn't sign up enough new subscribers to offset higher costs from laying off workers and absorbing an acquisition. http://www.physorg.com/news175765924.html Technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:52:32 EST news175765924 (AP) -- Venture capitalists' investments in U.S. startups rose in the third quarter when compared with the first two quarters of the year, suggesting increased confidence in the economy. When compared with the year-ago period, however, they marked a fifth consecutive quarter of decline. http://www.physorg.com/news175268739.html Technology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:05 EST news175268739 (AP) -- Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Thursday it has received the Justice Department's approval to move forward with its $7.4 billion acquisition of former dot-com-era star Sun Microsystems Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news170007355.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:17:39 EST news170007355 (AP) -- Facebook is buying a Web service called FriendFeed that gives users a view of what their friends are doing on all sorts of social media sites, including Facebook's rivals. http://www.physorg.com/news169140352.html Technology Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:26:29 EST news169140352 As antitrust regulators continue to scrutinize the year's biggest tech deal, Oracle's planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, competitors in the high-end hardware business and open-source software market have wasted no time wooing and in some cases winning Sun's customers. http://www.physorg.com/news168849276.html Technology Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:10:02 EST news168849276 (AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. projected quarterly results below Wall Street estimates Tuesday, signaling it will clear some charges off its books ahead of its $7.4 billion acquisition by Oracle Corp. http://www.physorg.com/news166790428.html Technology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:40:54 EST news166790428 (AP) -- PC maker Dell Inc. said Monday it expects its fiscal second-quarter revenue to be slightly higher than in the first quarter, when sales plunged 23 percent to $12.3 billion. http://www.physorg.com/news166724807.html Technology Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:27:30 EST news166724807 Internet pioneer AOL, which Time Warner plans to spin off into an independent company later this year, announced on Thursday that it had bought two small Web startups focused on local content. http://www.physorg.com/news163992425.html Technology Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:30:02 EST news163992425 (AP) -- Intel Corp. is biting off its biggest acquisition in nearly a decade with an $884 million takeover of Wind River Systems Inc., a software maker with a colorful past. http://www.physorg.com/news163327846.html Technology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:51:15 EST news163327846 US computer storage giant EMC Corp. offered 1.8 billion dollars on Monday for Data Domain in a bid to counter a rival offer for the data storage company from NetApp. http://www.physorg.com/news163100309.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:39:10 EST news163100309 (AP) -- Data storage company NetApp Inc. said Wednesday it agreed to buy data backup and disaster recovery systems provider Data Domain Inc. for $25 per share in cash and stock, or about $1.5 billion. http://www.physorg.com/news162108222.html Technology Thu, 21 May 2009 07:08:17 EST news162108222 Google considered buying a newspaper but dropped the idea, the head of the Internet search giant said in an interview with the Financial Times. http://www.physorg.com/news162107663.html Technology Thu, 21 May 2009 06:55:02 EST news162107663 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. priced a $3.75 billion debt offering on Monday, a first for the world's largest software maker. http://www.physorg.com/news161345683.html Technology Tue, 12 May 2009 11:15:15 EST news161345683 (AP) -- Online video site Joost is shopping itself around to different cable TV operators. http://www.physorg.com/news160070365.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:59:53 EST news160070365 (AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. said Monday its earnings grew 5 percent in the first quarter, boosted by its acquisition of Alltel Corp. and strong demand for its wireless, Internet and TV services. http://www.physorg.com/news160054256.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:31:34 EST news160054256 (AP) -- Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc. fell in premarket trading Monday on news that IBM Corp. withdrew an acquisition offer. http://www.physorg.com/news158223678.html Technology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:02:33 EST news158223678 A new study in Strategic Management Journal examines how the nature of outside directors' prior experience, and resulting expertise, will influence the performance of a firm's performance. Results show that this past experience and expertise will have positive effects on the firm's acquisitions. http://www.physorg.com/news150558890.html Other Sciences Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:54:50 EST news150558890