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Swiss food group Nestle is to buy drugmaker Pfizer's baby food business for $11.85 billion, beating out French rival Danone in the battle for dominance of fast-growing emerging markets.

At the MWC 2012, Nokia managed to steal the show with their PureView 808 and its behemoth 41 megapixel camera. For those who want to get their hands on the powerful camera-phone, it should be arriving in Britain sometime in mid-May for upwards of £500.

Alfa Romeo will once more grace the streets of the U.S. with its fashionable wheels and seductive curves decking out the new 4C by the end of 2013, and the 4C trademark was issued on April 10, according to a new release posted by the U.S. Federal News Service.

AstraZeneca has agreed to buy U.S. company Ardea Biosciences for $1.26 billion, giving it a new gout drug to bolster its weak pipeline in a deal that feeds a wave of M&A in the biotechnology sector.

Samsung's first teaser about the Galaxy S3 reveals nothing. The Destination: tgeltaayehxnx. is a website containing a countdown clock that has two teasers showing technology that fits easily in your hand. Meanwhile, Amazon Germany has revealed Galaxy S3 features that include 4.7in Super AMOLED touchscreen, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), a 12MP rear camera with autofocus, LED flash and face detection and 16GB of internal storage expandable to 32GB and a $786 price tag.

Recently Sprint has introduced for its subscribers Google's flagship Android ICS phone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus at a price for around $199.99 with a 2-year contract.

In the meantime, New-York based Wall street Journal (WSJ) put out a list that includes ten of the fastest super cars in the world for 2012, along with each car's specifications. Click on the slideshow above to view the list.

Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, is launching iCloud competitor, S-Cloud (or sCloud), at next month's Galaxy S3 announcement in London on May 3rd. S-Cloud would offer more than 5GB storage capacity like another cloud storage provider, Google Drive. Will it be better than Apple's iCloud service?

Samsung may unveil its third generation Galaxy S smartphone, the Galaxy S3, on Monday, April 23 at 7 a.m. On Sunday, Samsung Mobile's twitter account made a mysterious announcement at 9:52 a.m.: Destination: tgeltaayehxnx. If you add a .com to the end of that anagram for The Next Galaxy, you visit a Samsung Mobile website a beautiful-looking countdown clock.

It looks like Apple is going much thinner and lighter in its next smartphone, presumably called the iPhone 5. Sources from within Apple's foreign supply chains reportedly told Digitimes that the iPhone 5, expected to launch between the second and third quarter of 2012, will adopt in-cell touch panels manufactured by Sharp and Toshiba Mobile Display.

The idea of a luxury SUV might have seemed something of fiction just a few short years ago; but the fantastical might just become reality. Lamborghini unveiled its luxury SUV, the Urus, at the Beijing Auto Show, and other luxury SUVs might not be too far behind.

Asus has started shipping its Transformer Pad 300 tablet. The 10.1-inch Pad 300, aka TF300 tablet comes with a price tag of $379 and sports some high-end features like Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and a power-packed quad-core processor.

In less than two weeks Samsung Galaxy S3, the successor of Galaxy S2 will be unveiled in London on the Olympic ground. However, at the same time, in the May 3 event, where the tech enthusiasts who are eagerly waiting for the next gen phone, they will also witness the launch of Samsung's latest service S-Cloud with the new device.

Apple's fabled iPhone 5 is creating a host of fuss and hype on the Internet of late. according to the latest rumors, iPhone 5 will feature unibody design, liquidmetal casing, in-cell display panel, 16:9 aspect ratio, all screen display and will release in October.

Another 'leaked' image of Samsung Galaxy S3 hits the Internet. Rumored features of the 4.6-inch phone will include quad-core processor running at 1.4GHz, 1GB RAM, a Mali-400MP GPU, Ice Cream Sandwich OS and a screen with 320ppi pixel density and 720p resolution. The Korean company may also introduce S-Cloud service and Galaxy tab 2 (10.1)

Because of its wide array of associated products, Android appears to be the most popular mobile-device platform when it comes to selling gadgets. In terms of usage, however, Apple's iOS comes out on top, according to a new study released by Chitika.

How to jailbreak iOS 5.1-based iPads, iPhones, and iPods using Redsn0w 0.9.10b6.

Production rumors surrounding Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 have been circulating ever since the new iPad was released. Apple has yet to unveil the new device or confirm whether it will launch in June or October, but the Cupertino-based company also has plans for a mini iPad.

Rumors regarding the possibility of a Lamborghini SUV (sports utility vehicle) called the Deimos have been circulating for a while now. All signs suggest that the luxury car company is set to debut its first SUV, but according to China Car Times, the all-terrain powerhouse will be called the Urus, instead, and it will likely make an appearance at the Beijing Auto Show at the end of April.

Othniel Miller, the handyman who is currently having his former basement workshop dug up by the FBI in connection with the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, has a new accusation against him. Miller's ex-wife told police that he raped his niece.

Nokia has been betting big on Lumia 900 ever since the company announced its plans to adopt Windows Phone as the primary platform for its smartphones. Lumia 900 eventually hit the US market through AT&T, on a $100 contract.

After the South Korean tech giant Samsung sent out press invites to an event for the launch of its much-hyped Galaxy S3 smartphone on May 3 in London, it was thought that the rumors about the device would slow down gradually. But contrary to the general belief, even more ambitious rumors have been surfacing online over the past few days.

Despite being tagged as the powerhouse performer by Apple, MacBook Pro could never do justice to its 'Pro' moniker till 2011 when it received some minor updates.

At a time when smartphone world is filled with the buzz of Apple's and Samsung's coming up flagship models, Intel Corporation has joined hands with a non-US company - Lava International - to launch their first smartphone in the market.

At a time when chances of a fall release for the next generation Apple iPhone look stronger than a summer launch as expected before, a report surfaced late Friday saying that the highly anticipated smartphone will feature in-cell touch panels produced by Sharp and Toshiba.

Twin brothers in the U.K. allegedly defrauded about 75,000 investors by telling them a stock-picking robot named "Marl" could identify penny stocks that would double in price while the brothers were simply listing stocks they were paid to promote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged on Friday.

Rich Ross, Disney's studio chairman, has resigned after the entertainment company took a huge hit with the movie John Carter.

Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB), which makes Scott brand tissues, reported on Friday an increase in revenue and profits in its first quarter as cost-cutting and a boost in overseas sales made up for slow growth in the domestic market.

Earnings season is in full swing, and about 80 percent of the companies that have already reported topped estimates. We ran a screen and produced a list of 50 key companies set to report their earnings between April 23 and 27.