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HP paid a hefty $1.2 billion (including debt) to acquire ailing phone manufacturer Palm. That price was seen as high at the time, as it included a 23% premium on the stock price (for a company that was hemorrhaging money). As some suspected, HP was out-bidding four other companies in [...]

For the past few weeks, we’ve been occasionally talking about Google’s purchase of AdMob. Google purchased the popular mobile ad firm, and together, they’ll make up an estimated 21% of the mobile ad space in both mobile apps and the mobile web. The $750 million deal is being investigated by [...]

I have been using Google Voice as my primary number for so long now that I almost forgot it was still a ‘by invitation only’ setup. So, aside from my double take there, this post is going to serve as good news for anyone that is not yet a Google [...]

The Apple-Adobe corporate feud rolls on. Today, Adobe is firing back with a full court press as they’re taking out a new wide-reaching web ad campaign with banner ads that explain that they support “freedom on the web” among other things.

There is a huge debate going on regarding whether or not HTML5/CSS3 is the future and if it is, when the majority of the Internet will be ready for the shift towards it. Well believe it or not, the Internet is quite ready for the shift, whether you thought so [...]

Is Google going to get into video gaming? Sounds (admittedly) absurd, but a posting on a recent high-profile tech blog seems to support that fact. In addition to some recent Google hires and a job listing, the search giant has history with their aborted Lively project, and they’ve also recently [...]

Google Goggles Android app is still in beta mode but has already received positive reviews from users as a fun-to-use app. It’s recently released translation tool will allow you snap up a picture with your phone’s digital camera and it Google Goggles will translate the text in the photo within [...]

NEC claims to have developed a video content identification technology that can detect pirated films uploaded to the Internet in seconds and with 96 percent accuracy. This newly developed technology will be demonstrated at the 13th Embedded System Expo on 12-14 May in Tokyo.

Once again, Apple has sold out tickets to their Worldwide Developers Conference in just eight days. Despite the increase in ticket price (from $1295 to $1599), this has not deterred attendees. 2010 would mark the third year straight that Apple’s WWDC has sold out.

If you saw our report last week on the first UK Best Buy and wondered how the new store had done, well, the numbers are in and it did very well. England’s first Best Buy set a record for best sales in the opening weekend of a store launch for [...]