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Jonathan Skillings / CNET News:
Oracle to buy Sun in $7.4 billion deal — Oracle, not IBM, will be buying Sun Microsystems. — Oracle and Sun announced Monday that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash.
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems — The Oracle Corporation, the technology information company, announced Monday that it would acquire a rival, Sun Microsystems, for $9.50 a share, which would value the transition at $7.4 billion. — The deal with Oracle came about two weeks after I.B.M. ended its talks with Sun.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player — Updated: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market. The company added that the acquisition …
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BBC:
Adobe Flash secures set-top deal — Adobe has secured a deal to put its Flash software into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes. — It will enable developers and content providers to create applications to deliver web-based content such as news, weather and share prices to TV screens.
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Adobe Extends Flash Platform to Digital Home — For immediate release — Silicon, OEM, Cable and Content Partners Embrace Adobe Flash Platform for Televisions, Set-Top Boxes and Blu-Ray Players — At the 2009 NAB Show, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the extension …
Jason Hiner / Between the Lines:
Have we arrived in the post-Windows era? — Microsoft knew this day was coming. This was the reason it desperately wanted — no, needed — to take down Netscape in 1996. Netscape wasn't just trying to build a program for reading text and photos across a network of connected computers.
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Seth H. Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:Windows 7 application limit opens door for Android
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Douglas Quenqua / New York Times:
Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist — THIS is it, Melvin thought: Craigslist is about to get me killed. — A recent divorcé who lacked the money and confidence for a conventional date, Melvin, 35, had been lured to a stranger's apartment by the promise of anonymous sex.
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Sylvie Barak / Inquirer:
Apple netbooks manufactured by Foxconn rumoured — Apple sliced down to netbook size? — WE'VE PICKED UP ON some Chinese whispering which would have us believe Apple could be about to release its very own netbook, with Foxconn Electronics chosen as the fruity toymaker's main manufacturing partner.
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ:
Digg Ends Exclusive Ad Deal with Microsoft — Digg is ending its two-year-old exclusive ad selling relationship with Microsoft, one year earlier than the deal was set to expire. — The two will continue working together on remnant and so-called “network reserve” inventory.
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
AVG offers free LinkScanner for real-time Web page scanning — AVG on Monday will begin offering a free version of its LinkScanner software, which offers real-time scanning of Web pages while surfing or doing Web searches. — LinkScanner, which is currently part of the AVG Free Edition suite …
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Washington, D.C. will be 1st to get free mobile TV — Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV broadcasts for mobile devices like cell phones, laptop computers and in-car entertainment systems, broadcasters were set to announce Monday. — Broadcasts using new …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal, er Twitter: do they have any left? — I'm listening to Dave Winer and Jay Rosen “reboot the news.” Jay is a journalism professor and Dave is a geek that helped either birth or bootstrap all sorts of publishing technologies including blogging, RSS, OPML, XML-RPC, and more.
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