T-Sprintle: Bid to Merge T-Mobile and Sprint Gets Financing

From DailyTech: Bloomberg is reporting that Softbank Corp. (TYO:9984) has secured enough financing to cover a bid for T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (TMUS) in June or July in a move that could shake up the U.S. wireless network race.

The roots of the deal lie in T-Mobile U.S.'s current majority owner's desire...

HP joins with Foxconn to build low-cost cloud servers

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard is partnering with Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant best known for producing Apple's iPhone, to tackle the growing market for low-cost servers in cloud data centers.

The companies hope to combine Foxconn's large-scale manufacturing operations with HP's...

Bitcoin traders agree to settlement in Mt. Gox class-action suit

From PC World: Plaintiffs in two class-action suits charging the embattled Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox with fraud have agreed to a settlement, and new plans to revive the exchange have been drafted.

Earlier this year a class-action suit in Illinois was filed against Mt. Gox, following reports...

LG's Android Wear smartwatch may arrive in June

From CNET: Google's first Android Wear smartwatch may just be around the corner.

Google and LG's G Watch could launch in June for 199 euros ($274.50), according to French news site Les Numeriques, which got confirmation from LG's arm in France. Tech site Unwiredview.com first spotted the report...

AMD's string of tablet failures may end with Mullins chip

From InfoWorld: Advanced Micro Devices hopes its latest Mullins tablet processor will find acceptance after three failed predecessors and a handful of unsuccessful devices.

AMD's three new Mullins chips -- identified by the Micro suffix, such as A10 Micro-6700T-- are targeted at low-power laptops...

Apple bumps processor on MacBook Airs, drops price

From Mac World: As predicted by some Apple-watchers, the company updated its line of lightweight notebooks on Tuesday, bringing updated versions of Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors to the MacBook Air. Even more significantly, the company’s dropped the price of the MacBook Air models by $100 each...

Massive Firefox update hits refresh on browsing

From CNET: Mozilla released the first major interface refresh for Firefox on Tuesday since relaunching the browser in 2011, with new menus and new features in a bid to keep the browser competitive.

The massive overhaul comes at a challenging time for the company's leaders. Mozilla has been beset...

Losses mount for Microsoft's Surface tablet line

From InfoWorld: Economies of scale continued to elude Microsoft's Surface line as the tablet lost more money in the March quarter than in the preceding three-month period, regulatory filings showed.

In a 10-Q filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Microsoft reported...

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