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Monday, May 9, 2011
The Wall Street Journal reported tonight that Microsoft–in what would be its most aggressive acquisition in the digital space–was zeroing in on buying Skype for $8.5 billion.
Sources told BoomTown tonight that the deal for the online telephony giant is actually done and will be announced early tomorrow morning. Read More »
Activision Blizzard joins a growing list of videogame publishers that are placing more emphasis on digital revenues over selling boxed games at retail. However, what’s becoming very clear is that the definition of digital is a moving target for all parties involved, a trend that will likely continue as companies continue to experiment with new business models and delivery mechanisms. Read More »
Microsoft is close to a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for between $7 billion and $8 billion—the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play in the increasingly-converged worlds of communication, information and entertainment. Read More »
Google spent a year trying to get big music on board for its own cloud-based music service. Now it’s going the Amazon route, and going ahead without an OK from the labels. Read More »
With Honeycomb running only on tablets, Google’s Android roadmap has become a bit forked, though things could be headed back to a single path. In any case, the roadmap should become clearer as Google outline’s its Android plans at this week’s I/O conference in San Francisco. Expect to also hear about Google’s music locker as well as more on Android and Chrome, a little about TV and not much at all about the company’s social strategy. Read More »
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) Read More »
Foot traffic at Microsoft’s retail stores must be far lower than expected if the company has decided to start going door-to-door. Read More »
Companies like Foursquare, and now SCVNGR, are teaming up with American Express to help users redeem deals and get credits when they swipe their credit cards. Read More »
YouTube has had a movie rental service for a year. Now it says it will have some movies you’ve heard of. But this is an incremental step for both Google and Hollywood, both of whom are interested in something else down the line. Read More »
Activision Blizzard’s First Quarter Earnings Jump on Success of Major Game Franchises
Fueled by its top franchises, like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, Activision Blizzard reported better than expected first-quarter results today. Revenues increased to $1.4 billion from $1.3 billion in the year-ago period, and net income totaled $503 million, up from $381 million in first quarter 2010. Earnings per share jumped to 42 cents a share, up from 30 cents a share in the same time period. The company also raised its full-year outlook with earnings per share of 61 cents on revenues of $4.05 billion.
Jurors weighing the fate of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam appeared to focus Monday on allegations he traded on inside information about a 2008 wireless technology venture. Read More »
Nintendo of America Appoints New Head of Sales and Marketing
Nintendo of America has appointed Soctt Moffitt to the position of EVP of sales and marketing. Effective immediately, Moffitt will work from Nintendo’s office in Redwood City, Calif., and report to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. Previously, Moffitt was SVP and general manager for Henkel Consumer Goods’ personal care division, where he oversaw North American operations for brands such as Dial, Right Guard, Tone and Pure & Natural. Moffitt replaces Cammie Dunaway, who left the company more than a year ago.
Though it played havoc with Nokia’s smartphone business, a rare quarter-to-quarter decline in smartphone shipments–the first sequential decrease since 2009–did nothing to slow the iPhone juggernaut. Read More »
Nvidia’s CEO announces the company’s $367 million deal to acquire the British wireless chip firm Icera to employees and explains what it’s all about. Read More »
QOTD: The iPad’s Crowning Achievement 
“Hi subjects – sorry I is laters wiv the update. Croozin off-rode thru the park earlier & mashed a fox, two deer and rabbit wid the landy rover. – gonna tweet that Oliver Innit 4 sum recipes; Phil’s had to lie down cos he won’t use seat belts; gotta go.”
– A Sun commenter imagines Queen Elizabeth tweeting from her new iPad (about which she is reportedly royally stoked).
Zynga Continues to “Acqhire,” Nabbing Two Open Source Contributors
Zynga, the rapidly growing social games company, has hired two key contributors to the iPhone open source project called cocos2d through the acquisition of certain assets of Sapus Media. Both Ricardo Quesada and Rolando Abarca will be joining Zynga, where they will continue to support cocos2d. Zynga will not be acquiring the community site, cocos2d-iphone.org, which will continue to be managed separately. This is Zynga’s 13th acquisition in 12 months; however, many of its latest purchases have been for small groups of employees and no assets.
Sales of Samsung’s new Galaxy S II smartphone have gotten off to a heck of a start. The handset manufacturer said today that by April’s end it had received three million pre-orders globally for the dual-core Android device. Read More »
Groupon users will soon have access to limited-time deals on a variety of concerts, sports, theater productions and other live events across North America through a joint venture with Live Nation Entertainment–in other words, with the top dog of them all: Ticketmaster.com. Read More »
Nvidia Buys Wireless Chipmaker Icera for $367 Million
Nvidia, the graphics chipmaker seeking to expand into processors for notebooks, tablets and services, said today it will spend $367 million to acquire Icera, a U.K.-based maker of baseband chips for 3G and 4G wireless handsets. Icera is backed by Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Balderton Capital and DFJ Esprit. The firm raised $45 million last year, and secured a $12 million debt facility in January from Silicon Valley Bank. The deal is expected to help Nvidia compete better against Qualcomm.
According to an internal memo from Juniper Networks, which you can see below, one of its top tech execs, David Yen, is departing immediately.
Sources said Yen is headed to Cisco to run its servers business.
The impetus for Yen’s departure might have been formation of the Platform Systems Group, run by Stefan Dyckerhoff, which is prominently mentioned in the memo from Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson and after the jump. Read More »
Earlier Posts
- Interview: Ousted Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci Talks About His Departure on Mobilized
- YouTube Founders Buy Social Media Analytics Company Tap11 on NetworkEffect
- Yahoo Keeps Up Hiring–Rob Barrett Named as Head of News and Finance on BoomTown
- LinkedIn IPO Price Range Values Site at More Than $3 Billion on Digital Daily
- Seven Questions for Prith Banerjee, Hewlett-Packard’s Head of Research on NewEnterprise
- Demand CEO Richard Rosenblatt Talks Panda on BoomTown
- Facebook Isn’t the New Google, But It’s a Very Big Deal For Media Sites on MediaMemo
- Solar Updates Marines’ Arsenal on Voices
- Smartphone Makers Think Small (and Big) in Attempt to Stand Out from the Pack on Mobilized
- Google Now the World’s Second-Most Valuable Brand. Guess Who’s First? on Digital Daily
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