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Mystery bidder forces Micro Focus to raise offer for Borland 02 July, 2009 05:59
Micro Focus International raised its offer for Borland Software to $US1.50 per share on Tuesday, up from $1 in early May, to counter a rival offer from a mystery bidder. It's the second time Micro Focus has had to raise its offer. Another bidder dropped out of the running last month. - +
Pirate Party finds France fertile territory 27 June, 2009 01:26
Sweden's Pirate Party won 7.13 percent of the vote in elections earlier this month. Its campaign for the respect of privacy, the reform of copyright law and the abolition of the patent system earned it a seat in the European Parliament, and it may yet gain another seat there, if planned changes to the number of seats attributed to each country win approval. - +
Pirate Party finds France fertile territory 26 June, 2009 05:58
Sweden's Pirate Party won 7.13 percent of the vote in elections earlier this month. Its campaign for the respect of privacy, the reform of copyright law and the abolition of the patent system earned it a seat in the European Parliament, and it may yet gain another seat there, if planned changes to the number of seats attributed to each country win approval. - +
Alcatel-Lucent will team with HP to sell telecom products 19 June, 2009 05:36
Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent and IT vendor Hewlett-Packard plan to jointly market their products to businesses looking for converged IT and communications systems. - +
SAP wants to help microcredit groups manage loans 18 June, 2009 02:38
SAP hopes to help lower the cost of managing loan portfolios for organizations offering microcredits as part of a partnership announced Wednesday with French nonprofit group PlaNet Finance. - +
Cheerleader for new domain names defends ICANN plan 09 June, 2009 04:23
Plans to introduce new top-level Internet domains will not force trademark owners to make defensive registrations to protect their brands, according to two reports published by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Saturday. - +
HP plans to outsource European server production 29 May, 2009 01:30
Hewlett-Packard plans to outsource the production of enterprise storage and servers in Europe in order to cut costs, it said Thursday. - +
Red Hat sues Swiss government over $39M Microsoft contract 27 May, 2009 03:55
Red Hat has filed suit with the Swiss Federal Administrative Court, asking it to cancel a contract for desktop software and services that a government agency awarded to Microsoft without calling for competitive bids, the company said. - +
Micro Focus buys Borland Software 07 May, 2009 04:17
Micro Focus International plans to beef up its range of software quality assurance tools with two acquisitions it announced Wednesday. - +
Alcatel-Lucent losses grow as revenue shrinks 06 May, 2009 02:34
Alcatel-Lucent reported a 6.9 percent drop in first-quarter revenue compared to last year, while losses more than doubled. - +
Apple snapping up chip designers 01 May, 2009 05:27
A year after buying low-power processor designer PA Semi, Apple is looking for yet more chip design expertise.
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