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Five months after Microsoft said it would acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, the deal was approved and the transaction closed. Is Microsoft now ready to battle Google, whose proposed $12.5 billion takeover of Motorola Mobility is expected to close next quarter?

That bar of search possibility from Google that world has come to know and use as an everyday part of life is getting a challenge from another little-known search engine which aims to take on the global leader.

Add some more private equity bigfeet to the cluster that may be looking to acquire Yahoo: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone Group.

Apple's iOS 5 update offered over 200 new features, but Apple felt that wasn't enough, so the company wrote six new apps of its very own. The new offerings aim to make users more efficient.

Microsoft buys developer behind 'Splosion Man' and 'The Gunstringer.'

Steve Yegge, a senior engineer at Google, accidentally and publicly posted a critical analysis about his company's understanding of platforms, calling Google Plus a complete failure. Here are five reasons we agree.

Continuing his rollout of initiatives designed to expand broadband access nationwide, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski Wednesday unveiled the Connect to Compete venture at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington D.C.

Jobs let Time Editor Walter Isaacson write a biography of him and it looks like Hollywood is ready to commit before the book even comes out.

Box.net raised $81 million in funding on Monday. The cloud computing company is the darling of Silicon Valley, but can it compete with the likes of Amazon or Microsoft?

Business-software company Box has won $81 million in funding to expand its business, illustrating investors' continued appreciation for start-up companies that tap into the cloud.

The legendary tech genius Steve Jobs passed away on Oct. 5, leaving a great void in the world. It is Jobs who changed the way we think of the digital world, who changed the concept of mobile phone and tablet, and who revolutionized the technology industry. Here's a quick look at the most popular quotes by Steve Jobs. Perhaps, people might get inspired by the quotes and understand why Jobs and his Apple succeeded so well.

Owners of nearly 12 percent of BlackBerry developer Research in Motion are demanding a shakeup or sale, Toronto activist investor Victor Alboini tells IBTimes.

Congress should not endorse another big tax break for overseas corporate profits because the last one in 2004-2005 was a costly failure, said U.S. congressional investigators in a report released on Monday.

For all that he achieved in his life in terms of his public image, Steve Jobs was famously not a public philanthropist, unlike his equally titanic tech rival, Microsoft’s former head Bill Gates.

The ongoing crisis at Yahoo may now have tempted some new parties including Singapore’s Temasek as well as Bain Capital, joining other parties said to include Facebook, Microsoft, Providence Equity Partners and Alibaba Group.

Motorola Solutions, the “old” Motorola sector not being acquired by Google, introduced its ET1 Tablet, an Android-based device intended for retail and factory use.

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of the world’s most valuable technology company, died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, Wednesday, leaving behind a legacy that would make his rivals envious.

Quotes and tributes of world leaders, celebrities, tech leaders and company top executives on the death of Steve Jobs.

The Microsoft Corp. has finalized its acquisition of communications company Skype. The European Union approved the plan this week, and Microsoft is hoping there will be no more delays in the process.

Oracle Corp. announced it is building Oracle Public Cloud, a cloud service to host many of its key software products, including Java, database, middleware, and customer-relationship-management applications.

Reports show that Sony Pictures Entertainment is in the planning stages and making deals to acquire the rights to make a Steve Jobs movie about the Apple co-founder.