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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
HP buys my company Opsware for more than $1.6 billion in cash — In September 1999, at the height of the dot com boom, a small group of colleagues and I started a new company, Loudcloud, based on the idea that the huge Internet infrastructure buildout then underway — by startups and big companies alike …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
HP takes out Opsware for $1.6 billion; Andreessen scores — Hewlett-Packard on Monday beefed up its data center software business with a $1.6 billion acquisition of Opsware. — Opsware makes automation software that puts many data center operations on autopilot.
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Kevin Kingsbury / Wall Street Journal:
H-P Agrees to Acquire Opsware for $1.65 Billion — PC Giant Also Reaches Deal for Neoware — Hewlett-Packard Inc. agreed to acquire software company Opsware Inc. for $1.65 billion as the computer and printer giant looks to bolster its offerings for corporate customers.
Business Wire:
HP to Acquire Opsware Inc. — Acquisition Positions HP to Become a Leader in High-Growth Data Center Automation Software Market — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Opsware Inc. (Nasdaq:OPSW …
Austin Modine / The Register:
HP bids $1.6bn on Opsware, $214m on Neoware — What did you buy today? A latte? That's cute — Deep in the bowels of Hewlett-Packard's financial department, the person in charge of the company's checkbook has writer's cramp. The hardware maker has announced today the proposed purchase of not one, but two companies.
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Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal:
Search Engines Take Privacy Issue Seriously — After Google's announcement that it will anonymize search data logs on its servers after 18 months of inactivity and Ask.com will allow users to scrub off their data, it is now Microsoft and Yahoo's turn to take on the user privacy issue hauled …
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
IPhone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says — A team of computer security consultants say they have found a flaw in Apple's wildly popular iPhone that allows them to take control of the device. — The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators …
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Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:
Making Things Better: 1.90 PS3 Firmware Update Hits Japan — 1.90 PS3 Firmware Update Hits Japan — The 1.90 Firmware update just hit Japanese PS3s. Let's dive in and see what the update entails: — • Ability to rearrange games on the XMB — • Option menu now includes "eject disk"
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Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
TomTom To Purchase Tele Atlas — Exciting news? Not really, but it could mean improved service and better products with TomTom's announcement to buy map-provider Tele Atlas. TomTom is rumored to have purchased the company for $2.5 billion. Sure it's a lot of money, but think about what you're getting with that deal.
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Harrison Hoffman / Webware.com:
YOUTUBE USERS TAKE ON THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES — The questions in presidential debates have traditionally been determined by whatever media outlet happened to be running the show. CNN and YouTube are looking to change that tonight. As you may know, YouTube is working …
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Podcasters Unite to Figure Out a Role for Ads — The term "podcasting" has perplexed consumers ever since it was introduced. — Confusion has reigned on the business side of podcasts, too. — Few consumers will pay to receive podcasts — audio files that exist on the Web, and can be automatically sent to a person's computer.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
XM, Sirius pledge "kinda la carte" support, get Cardinal's endorsement — In an effort to shore up support for their proposed merger, XM and Sirius have announced that the merged company will offer à la carte service to consumers—those who don't want a package can pick the channels of their choice for a lower price.
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Changes In Vista Service Pack 1 — Long Zheng has aggregated all the public planned changes for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, based on various published developer documentation. Some of the more interesting ones: — No architectural changes - All appliacation compatible with the current release …
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The Jeff Pulver Blog:
A Call for More Innovation in Voice Services: — I have a challenge for innovative disruptors with regards to the voice applications industry, a "homework assignment." — On Friday I attended and spoke at IPTComm 2007, an event organized by Henning Schulzrinne and Greg Bond.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Culture matters: Why i-mode failed — Top execs get blinded by shiny technology too — Opinion M-commerce service i-mode has been dropped by UK operator O2 and Australia's Telstra. — So how did a service, which promised to bring mobile commerce to everyone, and which raked …
Ian D Thomas / Lies, Damned Lies:
Microsoft 'Gatineau' sneak peek — So, some screenshots of the interface for beta 1 of our web analytics product (codenamed 'Gatineau') have slipped out onto the web, courtesy of Dave Naylor. Dave attended our adChamps briefing in London a couple of weeks ago where he saw a demo of the software …
Steve Silberman / Wired News:
Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend — It looked like a fine day for a sail. On Sunday, January 28, 2007, Microsoft researcher Jim Gray woke up on his boat, a red 40-foot fiberglass cruiser called Tenacious. The water in Gashouse Cove, a cozy marina in San Francisco Bay, was nearly flat.
