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HP Snags EDS in Services Bid

Hurd’s $13.9B bold stroke is designed to boost margins and give HP critical mass to take on No. 1 IBM.
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Google 'Salts' Web With Social Networking

Move to spread social features all over the Web could alter equation for destinations like Facebook and MySpace.
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Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

Cablevision to Buy Newsday for $650M

New York cable firm outbids News Corp. and expects to exploit print/TV/online synergies in cross-media advertising and content distribution.
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Communications, Finance

TechSpin: The Quest for Mobile Platforms

Nobody wants to just sell phones, but broader ambition has its perils.
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Cablevision to Spend $300M on Free Wi-Fi

As cable operators continue to struggle with the incorporation of mobile communications, New York-based company offers subscribers free Wi-Fi in neighborhoods.
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Battery Ventures Buys 3M Unit

Highjump Software, developer of supply chain software, to be run as a standalone company.
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dotMobi Grabs Assets of Mowser

Irish firm swoops in after founder of 1-year-old mobile browsing firm maxes out his credit cards.
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SlideShare, backed by Mark Cuban, Get $3M

Social network of PowerPoints closes on A round led by Venrock.
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Media, Internet, Finance

Will Google and Cable Firms Rejuvenate WiMAX?

A well-financed wireless broadband carrier with well-heeled backers motivated to innovate could jolt the WiMAX community out of its inertia.
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Media, Internet, Finance

TechSpin: Old Media Still Struggles With Web

Media executives gathered at the Argyle Executive Forum on Leadership in Media in New York, where there was more lamenting over old media's lack of clear business model in the Internet age than forecasting at the confab.
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Report: Microsoft Made Move on Facebook

While making an abortive attempt to land Yahoo, Microsoft's bankers were checking out Facebook.
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Prime Sense Aims to Out-Whee! the Wii

Tel Aviv startup raises $20.4M for system-on-a-chip that lets digital devices see in 3D and respond to gestures and movement.
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Tech Consortium Bids $14.5B on WiMAX

Google, Intel, Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House wager a fortune on an unproven but disruptive technology.
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Feds Tackle Mobile Spam

Despite lessons learned online, mobile spam is a growing problem and the government is having problems fixing liability.
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Microsoft ‘Moving On,’ But Deal Won’t Go Away

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, stung by investors, says he would entertain new offer as company shares are buoyant.
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Deutsche Telekom Eying Sprint Purchase?

Buying Sprint would vault the German giant into the top U.S. mobile carrier spot, but will its backers approve?
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Yahoo Shares Fall; Google Declared Winner

Analysts say Microsoft could revisit the merger, though budding Yahoo-Google partnership could present a roadblock.
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TechSpin: What Now for Yahoo and Microsoft?

Now that a deal is off, both companies need to rethink their strategies.
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Climax Near for Microsoft, Yahoo?

Wall Street sees better than even chance of deal at $33, analyst says; the ball is in Steve Ballmer’s court.
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eBay Charges Skullduggery at Craigslist

‘Poison pill,’ share dilution irk eBay; Craigslist blog sees ‘conflicted shareholder’ and vows response to lawsuit.
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