From DailyTech: Dell's CEO OK'd a lower valuation of his stake in the company in an effort to push a $24.4 billion deal along, which would allow Dell to go private.

Dell CEO Michael Dell agreed to drop the value of his 16 percent stake in the company from $13.65 a share to $13.36 a...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital has introduced My Book AV-TV external hard drive that features digital video recorder functionalitu, allowing customers to instantly enable their TV recording features to store and playback hundreds of hours of entertainment by simply connecting the...

From X-bit Labs: The image of what is claimed to be a Sony PlayStation 4 development kit reveals a couple of unidentified elements that resemble sensors or cameras. Until now, Sony offered PlayStation Eye separate camera for its consoles that worked with select titles, but keeping in...

From CNET News.com: Barnes & Noble announced yesterday that it expects a higher loss from its Nook business for fiscal 2013, which ends in April. The company didn't reveal specific numbers, but its EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) showed a loss...

From DailyTech: Computer giant HP is looking to expand its horizons in the technology world. A new report suggests that the company will attempt to offer its own line of mobile products based on the Google Android operating system.

The first Android device offered by HP will be a...

From DailyTech: That's the take home message from Opera Software ASA's (OSE:OPERA) somewhat surprising announcement that it is going to transition to the WebKit platform, taking its 300 million plus users with it.

Opera boasts tens of millions of desktop users, but is a niche player...

From X-bit Labs: Valve Software this week reduced its headcount by approximately 25 developers of software and hardware for unknown reasons. The laid off hardware and software developers were working on different products and the reasons why the seemingly successful company decided...

From X-bit Labs: Even though Nvidia Corp. formally introduced its next-generation Tegra 4 application processor for mobile devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in early January, the company will not start revenue shipments of the system-on-chip until July. As a result, the first...

From CNET News.com: Apple today dropped the prices in its line of MacBook Pro laptops with Retina display while boosting processor speeds.

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina now starts $1,499, or $200 less than before. The higher-capacity 256GB version costs $1,699, or $300...

From DailyTech: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently stated that the company's search partnership with Microsoft is not delivering the gains expected. Mayer says that the deal is not delivering search market share gains or the revenue that it should be.

"One of the points of the...