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Toshiba is planning to invest $1 billion in Southeast Asia
Mr. Hisao Tanaka, the President and CEO of Japan’s Toshiba Corporation, today announced Toshiba’s comprehensive strategy for expanding its business in Southeast Asia, including investing $1 billion dollars in the...
Telefónica strengthens its presence in Brazil with the acquisition of GVT
Telefónica sealed its deal to buy Vivendi's Brazilian unit GVT for about €7.24 billion ($9.3 billion), cementing the Spanish telecommunications giant's position in Latin America's largest market. GVT's sale comes...
Microsoft is closing down its research lab in Silicon Valley
Microsoft Research will close its Silicon Valley lab as part its latest round of job cuts, the company just confirmed. About 50 Microsoft Research positions will be cut in Silicon...
Microsoft has let go of another 2,100 employees worldwide
The new, Nadella-controlled Microsoft is already around 13,000 employees lighter than it used to be, and that number is only getting bigger. To wit: The company just confirmed to ZDNet...
Cisco is acquiring private cloud player Metacloud
Cisco announced this morning it intends to buy Metacloud, a startup with OpenStack chops. This news comes hot on the heels of HP buying Eucalyptus last week and Rackspace announcing...
Huawei has given up on Windows Phone for the time being
Microsoft is pushing very hard to make Windows Phone the third most widely used mobile platform behind Android and iOS. In some markets it has already been able to overtake...
Media storage company Front Porch Digital has been acquired by Oracle
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Front Porch Digital, a provider of technology for migrating, managing and monetizing large-scale media content. The financial terms of the transaction were not...
Microsoft is preparing to mass-produce massive touch-screens
Microsoft is full of surprises these days. Two years after it bought large-touchscreen company Perceptive Pixel (PPI), it will start to productize the technology under the Microsoft brand. Steven Elop,...
Europe wants to start using its 700MHz band for mobile broadband
Europe’s 700MHz band should be freed for mobile broadband by 2020, a report to the European Commission recommends. The extra spectrum is needed to meet increasing demand for video on...
Telstra’s Whispir Conversation Platform is getting ready to go global
Telstra’s Whispir Conversation Platform is set to go global from the end of month, with the communications company aiming replicate its service delivery to Australian enterprise and government customers on...
