From DailyTech: Acquisitions and mergers are common in the tech world and when two large companies each boasting lmany customers try to merge, you can count on scrutiny from regulators. Such was the case with the Oracle/Sun merger.

Oracle announced that it intended to purchase Sun...

From DailyTech: Apple today announced the iPad, a promising new tablet device which the electronics manufacturer swears will revolutionize the mobile computing industry, much as its iPhone did. The new device runs a modified version of OS X similar to the iPhone. Unlike the iPhone...

From DailyTech: Google Voice became the face of complaints about both AT&T's service policies and Apple's App Store policy. The app, which would allow for free SMS texts and domestic calls (using data rather than the voice network), was set to promise iPhone owners a way to escape...

From DailyTech: Micro-Star International (MSI) is known among enthusiasts for its graphics card designs and motherboards. However, the Taiwan-based OEM makes a variety of other products including servers and barebones PCs. Among its most successful entries outside the component...

From CNET News.com: Tapping into a new revenue source, Ubuntu Linux's corporate backer Canonical has signed a partnership to use Yahoo's search results by default in the version of Firefox it ships.

The move takes a page from the Mozilla playbook. Firefox is set up by default to...

From CNET News.com: Google's Social Search product is ready for wider testing.

First announced back at the Web 2.0 conference, Social Search allows Google searchers to link their Google Profile with the various profiles they have on social-networking sites such as Facebook and...

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technologies and LSI Corp. on Tuesday announced collaboration to deliver PCI Express-based solid-state drives (SSDs) for data center and cloud computing environments. The companies did not say when actual solutions are projected to hit the market.

LSI and...

From InfoWorld: China on Wednesday said Google's Android operating system will not be blocked if it follows local regulations, after speculation that Google's threat to leave China could hurt the adoption of Android there.

Google last week said it had postponed the launch in China...

From PC World: Just hours before Apple's expected announcement, the chief executive of a major U.S. book publisher confirmed that the company will unveil a tablet tomorrow and that the device will run a version of the iPhone OS.

But after top McGraw-Hill exec Terry McGraw spilled...

From CNET News.com: Yahoo continued to ease its way back to financial respectability in its fourth quarter, beating estimates from both itself and Wall Street despite a decline in revenue.

In a press release Tuesday, Yahoo said it took in $1.73 billion in revenue during its fourth...