Bad Apple? British chip maker puts up the ‘for sale’ sign after Apple cancels its chip royalty payments
News Merger and acquisition
Amazon’s Buyout Of Whole Foods To Speed Up Its Move Into Grocery Sales
ANALYSIS: The on-line retailing giants long quest to become a major player in the grocery industry is about to come to fruition in a very big way with its proposed $13.7 billion buyout of Whole Foods
Softbank Buys Boston Dynamics From Google
Moonshot project shot down. Alphabet finally offloads unwanted robotics division Boston Dynamics
HPE CEO Meg Whitman Hints At More Acquisitions
Spend, spend, spend. Acquisitions will form part of HPE’s strategy going forward confirms CEO
Spotify Buys French AI Startup To Boost Music Recommendations
Spotify moves to fight off growing competition from the likes of Apple Music, Deezer and Pandora
VMware Puts Focus On User Experience With Apteligent Acquisition
Software will be integrated to improve application performance and enhance the user experience
Michael Dell: Being Private Gives Dell Technologies An Advantage
Dell EMC World 2017: Eight months on from IT’s biggest ever merger and it’s so far, so good
Jive And Aurea CEOs Present United Front At JiveWorld 2017
JiveWorld 2017: Elisa Steele and Scott Brighton assure customers during opening keynote
Aurea Software Buys Jive In £357 Million Cash Deal
Jive Software announces sale ahead of JiveWorld 2017 conference
Extreme Networks Buys Brocade Data Centre Business
Data centre networking move sees Extreme buy data centre networking unit, as Brocade breakup continues
UK Tech Boasts Higher Salaries And More Investment Than Other Industries
Salaries and investment into UK companies are higher than ever as digital continues to fuel UK economy
Nokia’s Former Luxury Smartphone Maker Vertu Sold Again For £50m
The future of the luxury smartphone maker is uncertain
Palo Alto Networks Splashes £85 Million On Behavioural Analytics Firm LightCyber
LightCyber’s behavioural monitoring technology will be integrated into Palo Alto’s platform by the end of 2017
Apple Acquires Israeli Facial Recognition Startup RealFace
Machine learning powered facial recognition authentication tech could find its way into iPhones and iPads a couple of generations down the line
Yahoo To Become Altbaba And Marissa Mayer Will Step Down After Verizon Takeover
Yahoo’s boss is to step down from the board after its acquisition by Verizon, and remaining shell entity to be renamed
11 Stories And Trends That Dominated Tech In 2016
Time to take a look back at what has been an extremely interesting 2016…
Nokia Acquires Deepfield For Network Insights
Trump won’t like that. Finnish networking giant acquires US firm for its networking insights
Cross Channel: Kyocera Acquires Annodata And Cloud24x7 Hunts For UK Security Partners
All the latest news from the world of the channel, including Kyocera’s acquisition of managed print firm Annodata.
Sage Mulls Sale Of North American Payments Unit
British software giant examines ‘strategic options’ for American payments business
Cross Channel: Brexit Causes Worry And Merged Channels With BT And EE
All the latest news from the world of the channel, including Brexit prompting a drop in tenders
Samsung May Offload PC Division To Lenovo
Exodus from PC market continues if report that Samsung is considering selling PC unit to Lenovo is true
Chinese Firm Ctrip Snaps-Up Scotland’s Skyscanner For £1.4bn
UK startup gets acquired by Chinese travel giant
Who Are China’s Biggest Technology Companies?
China is a bastion of giant tech firms from Huawei and ZTE to Xiaomi and Alibaba
Cross Channel: Fujitsu And Lenovo PC Deal And G-Cloud Shunned
All the latest news from the world of the channel, including Microsoft brexit enterprise price hikes
Qualcomm Buys NXP For £39bn To Become IoT Chip Giant
Qualcomm digs deep in order to acquire NXP, to create IoT semiconductor powerhouse
Yahoo Hack: Verizon Could Withdraw From $4.83 Billion Acquisition Deal
Verizon believes Yahoo’s massive data breach by hackers does give it reason to walk away from its acquisition
Qualcomm Considers Buying Chip Maker NXP Semiconductors
Qualcomm may be about to purchase NXP Semiconductors in a multi billion dollar acquisition
Salesforce Asks For EU Antitrust Probe Over Microsoft LinkedIn Purchase
Sour grapes? Salesforce lost its bid for LinkedIn, but now asks EU to investigate Microsoft
McLaren Denies Apple Takeover Or Investment Talks
The brakes have been applied on rumours of an Apple aqusition of McLaren
Google Snaps-up API.ai Startup To Boost Natural Language Capabilities
Google continues to push ahead with building out its smart software