HP to buy Aruba Networks for $2.7B in mobile push

From CNET: Just last week, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that her company would be "on the hunt" to acquire new companies, and now she has made good on that promise.

HP plans to buy Aruba Networks in a $3 billion transaction that, factoring in cash and debt, works out to about $2.7 billion...

Intel playing catch-up with new mobile chips

From CNET: Intel on Monday unveiled a new set of mobile chips, with the hope that these more powerful processors will help it catch up to rivals in the smartphone and tablet markets.

The company revealed at the Mobile World Congress show here its Atom x3, x5 and x7 mobile chips. The x3, formerly...

Chipmakers NXP and Freescale to combine in $11.8 billion deal

From CNET: NXP agreed Monday to buy fellow chipmaker Freescale for about $11.8 billion in cash and stock, bringing together two companies focused on the burgeoning Internet of Things market.

Both NXP and Freescale sell microcontrollers -- tiny processors that help run all kinds of devices, from...

IBM to pump $4 billion into cloud, mobile, and analytics

From InfoWorld: IBM will dedicate $4 billion in spending this year to the cloud, analytics, and mobile technologies, as it struggles with seismic shifts that are changing the computing landscape it once dominated,

In return, by 2018 IBM expects to reap a combined $40 billion in annual revenue from...

Galaxy S6, S6 Edge revealed in new leaked image

From CNET: Another clue has surfaced that Samsung will unveil two models of its Galaxy S6, one with a standard front display and the other with a curved edge.

Posted on Reddit by a user tagged as a "verified employee" of Sprint, a link dubbed "A better teaser" calls up an image asking people to...

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