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ST Telemedia sells Indosat stake
News Temasek Holdings-unit has announced it will sell its 41 percent stake in Indonesian operator, PT Indosat to Qatar Telecom for US$1.8 billion.
Tags: Acquisitions, Antitrust, Stake, SingTel, Indonesia, Qatar, investment company, telecommunications company, commission, U.S. Supreme Court
Lenovo mobile hopes threaten PC biz
News Buyback of handset arm suggests computer maker harbors global intentions for Lenovo-branded mobiles, but analyst says this puts strain on core PC business.
Tags: Development/design, Personal Computers, Strategy, Apple Inc., Computer, Phone, cell phone, mobile, Lenovo Group Ltd., China
Former Joost CEO ousted as chairman
News Mike Volpi has been removed from the board by a shareholder vote and Joost is investigating his actions during his time as chairman and CEO, according to the company.
Tags: Leadership, Video, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., intellectual property, chairman, board of directors, Video, board, Leadership
The curious case of Sun Microsystems Philippines
Blogs In more ways than one, Sun Microsystems Philippines (SunPhil) is an "anomaly" among the large IT companies in the countr...
Skype legal settlement clears path for expansion
News Skype's change of ownership will allow company to return its focus to implementing new features and finding new ways to make money.
Tags: Lawsuits, VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP, Founder, Marc Andreessen, Joost, Lawsuits, Joltid, Andreessen Horowitz, Acquisition
Twitter on the verge of big search deals?
News Microsoft and Google are separately talking to the company about potentially licensing its massive amounts of real-time data to supplement search results, new report says.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data Management, Data mining & analysis, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Web 2.0, Microsoft Corp.
Acer: We'll pass Dell 'very soon'
News Acer's president says it expects to overtake Dell as the No. 2 PC maker, and challenge No. 1 HP too.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Desktops, Netbook, Notebook, Desktops, U.S., Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Acer Inc., International Data Corp.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey invested in Foursquare
News Ex-CEO and current chairman is one of the startup's undisclosed angel investors, sources tell CNET News.
Tags: Web 2.0, Industry Veteran, Bay Area, New York, payment, co-founder, knowledge, SEC filing, Web 2.0
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
Report: Facebook, Nielsen to partner on ad stats
News An announcement in New York this week will unveil a program called "Brand Lift", which aims to put a number on the effectiveness of advertisements on Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Palo Alto, social networking, New York, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, marketing, Wall Street Journal, Internet advertising
Sony gets a TV repairman
News Hiroshi Yoshioka, Sony's head of consumer products and devices, hopes to close gap with competitors in TV market by revamping supply chain, cost cutting and adding features to its products.
Tags: Best strategies, Cost control, Hiroshi Yoshioka, TV, Amazon.com Inc., DisplaySearch, 3D, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., analyst, LG Electronics Inc.
When governments don't look back, in anger history returns
Blogs I had hosted a roundtable dialog in April 2001 that included Neil Montefiore, then-CEO of MobileOne (M1). In the midst o...
Apple and Intel increase their Imagination stakes
News Apple almost triples its stake in the Imagination Technologies, which provides graphics technology for the iPhone.
Tags: Investments, Best strategies, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Graphics, handheld computing, handheld, Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., investment company
Gunning for an elephant in Silicon Valley
News Tiny Arista, started by a Sun co-founder, is challenging Cisco with superfast networking gear.
Tags: Data Management, Database management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Hewlett-Packard Co., Google Inc., network, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Equinix, software, Cisco Systems Inc.
Skype founders file copyright suit against Skype
News Joltid, a company founded by Skype's developers, alleges its P2P software is being infringed upon every time someone downloads and uses the popular VoIP service.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Lawsuit, P2P, Northern California, founder, U.S. District Court, spokesman
