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Yahoo rumors ahead of Monday’s event include $1.1 billion Tumblr buy, Flickr updates
Posted On 17 May 2013 By Richard Lawler. Under: Uncategorized.
Earlier today, Yahoo sent press invites to a "product-related" event in New York City Monday afternoon and there are already two separate rumors about the company's plans. The first, from Bloomberg, concerns the event specifically and cites a "per...
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Foxconn buys 9 percent stake in GoPro for $200 million
Posted On 20 Dec 2012 By Terrence O'Brien. Under: Uncategorized.
Hon Hai Precision, better known as Foxconn, is already the world's largest electronics manufacturer. Chances are if you've got a laptop, console or smartphone it was assembled in one of the company's many Chinese factories. The giant has also gotten ...
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Sprint confirms it’s buying the rest of Clearwire for $2.2 billion
Posted On 17 Dec 2012 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
Sprint has just announced that it has entered into a "definitive agreement" to buy the 50 percent stake of Clearwire it doesn't already own. The transaction, worth $2.2 billion, is $100 million higher than the original offer House Hesse had made, once...
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Google Play Music and Movies purchasing reaches Google TV, patches a media strategy hole
Posted On 08 Oct 2012 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
It's been one of the more conspicuous omissions in the media hub space: despite Google Play being the cornerstone of Google's content strategy, you couldn't truly use the company's music or movie services through Google TV without depending on conten...
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Toys R Us launches family-friendly internet movie service, plans Tabeo access, HD video and more
Posted On 05 Oct 2012 By Richard Lawler. Under: Uncategorized.
Like Amazon, Best Buy and Barnes & Noble before it, Toys R Us is following the path of being a retailer distributing its own branded hardware (Tabeo, Nabi) with an accompanying app store, and then supplementing those offerings with a digital medi...
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Google Play hits 25 billion app downloads, holds celebratory yard sale with $0.25 games
Posted On 26 Sep 2012 By Zachary Lutz. Under: Uncategorized.
Google Play crossed a rather significant milestone this morning: something to the tune of 25 billion app downloads. While the accomplishment is weighty enough on its own -- especially given that the store also offers books, music and movies, which ar...
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Dice Holdings buys Slashdot, Freecode and SourceForge for $20 million
Posted On 19 Sep 2012 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
Dice Holdings, the unimaginatively named owner of technology jobs site Dice.com has purchased Geeknet's media business for a cool $20 million. The deal hands over control of the world-famous Slashdot, Freecode and SourceForge to the careers company, ...
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Dice Holdings buys Slashdot, Freecode and SourceForge for $20 million
Posted On 19 Sep 2012 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
Dice Holdings, the unimaginatively named owner of technology jobs site Dice.com has purchased Geeknet's media business for a cool $20 million. The deal hands over control of the world-famous Slashdot, Freecode and SourceForge to the careers company, ...
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iRobot buys rival Evolution Robotics for $74 million to expand hard-floor cleaning tech
Posted On 18 Sep 2012 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
iRobot celebrated Roomba's 10th birthday quietly teeing up a $74 million acquisition of rival Evolution Robotics Inc. The Pasadena-based company produces the Mint, a hard-floor 'bot that uses ordinary Swiffer pads to wet-wipe your wooden decks clean ...
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Fox to sell Digital HD movies three weeks ahead of discs or VOD, Prometheus is first (Update: via Amazon, iTunes, Xbox, Vudu etc.)
Posted On 06 Sep 2012 By Richard Lawler. Under: Uncategorized.
According to the New York Times, Fox is about to try another tactic to enhance sales of its movies, by offering downloadable UltraViolet (Update: and many other formats, see below.) copies for sale a full three weeks ahead of their release on Blu-ray...
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