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SAP to acquire Khimetrics
News SAP has announced plans to acquire the retail software maker.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Customer resource management (CRM)
CA buys antispam company
News Computer Associates International its cash acquisition of Qurb, an e-mail security software maker, a further expansion for CA into security industry.
Tags: Spam filtering, Acquisitions
10 ways to manage your risk with Web applications
Techguide Web apps are becoming popular, but there are legitimate concerns about security and reliability. Learn how to address potential risks and choose the right vendor.
Tags: Web services, Software engineering/development, Risk Management, Vendor, Disaster Recovery, Security, Tool, Web Application, Polly Schneider Traylor, performance
Google buys Gizmo5 for Google Voice
News Terms of the deal for the VoIP software company were undisclosed, but Google's second acquisition of the week will be used to help Google Voice.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., Google Inc., Gizmo5, Phone, Internet telephony company, telephony company, Voice, TechCrunch
Yahoo confirms acquisition of Xoopit
News Web pioneer purchases the start-up to add new photo features to Yahoo Mail.
Tags: Networking, Google Picasa, Yahoo! Inc., photograph, Yahoo! Mail, online photo, Web Address, Flickr, blog posting, financial terms
Qualcomm, Nokia partner on new 3G phones
News After battling over patents and royalties, Qualcomm and Nokia have now kissed and made up. And now they're partnering on new 3G smartphones.
Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, PDA phones, 3G (Third Generation), Qualcomm Inc., Mobile, Symbian Inc., phone, handset maker, 3G
Apple settles patent suit over iPhone visual voice mail
News Klausner Technologies can now count Apple and AT&T as licensees of its technology after convincing them to settle a patent-infringement lawsuit filed last year over the iPhone.
Tags: Mac OS, Smart phones, Lawsuits, Patents, Apple Inc., Voicemail, America Online Inc., Comcast Corp., AT&T Corp., Cablevision Systems Corp.
Oracle to acquire Skywire Software
News Software company sees its latest purchase of a market application specialist as a way to expand its customer base in the "strategic industry" of insurance management.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Skywire Software, software company, insurance, agent, financial, Oracle Corp., insurance application, enterprise software
Microsoft releases Exchange 2010, acquires Teamprise
News At TechEd Europe, Redmond offers the latest on its e-mail and calendar server. Meanwhile, it also scoops up a developer tool for creating code in multiple OSes.
Tags: Business applications, Webcast, Teamprise, TechEd, Microsoft Corp., Business applications, Berlin, collaboration tool, Microsoft Windows, senior vice president
Joost: It could have been a contender, or not
News It was supposed to kill YouTube, and now it's finally dead, as some of its assets get sold off in what's likely a total fire sale.
Tags: Web 2.0, Video, Joost, Web 2.0, CEO, P2P, venture capital, YouTube Inc., online video, File-sharing
Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search
News Microsoft executives Qi Lu and Yusuf Mehdi debut Twitter integration with Bing search results at Web 2.0 Summit. The Facebook partnership will come at a later date.
Tags: Search, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Search Result, financial, Web 2.0
Microsoft wins deal to sell NBC ads
News The tie-up, which stems from the Redmond's purchase of Navic Networks, will allow Microsoft to sell ads that run on NBC's cable and broadcast stations.
Tags: Advertising, Digital media, TV, Google Inc., Cable, Advertisement, Digital media, NBC, NBC Universal Inc., Wall Street Journal
Verizon and Yahoo extend portal deal
News Companies extend agreement to provide Verizon Internet users with Yahoo's Web portal, but will Yahoo be able to get a piece of Verizon's mobile action?
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Legal, Web sites, Search, Verizon Communications Inc., Mobile, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Portal, Advertisement
SAP buys into carbon management
News The enterprise software giant buys Clear Standards, a software start-up that has developed a platform for managing and reporting a company's environmental footprint.
Tags: Green IT, Business development/management, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Carbon Emission, Tool, software company, Clear, software, financial
Microsoft, TomTom settle patent dispute
News The pair reach deal, where TomTom will pay Microsoft for patent protection related to patents that Microsoft claimed were infringed by TomTom's use of the Linux kernel.
Tags: Open source, Microsoft Corp., Patent, GPL, TomTom, intellectual property, litigation, Linux, agreement, Open source
