From CNET: Staples is scooping up Office Depot to the tune of $6.3 billion.
Combined, the two companies own around 4,000 stores and see annual sales of more than $35 billion. But the pair have been hit by greater competition from online retailers such as Amazon as well as chains such as Target and...
From DailyTech: For a while if you wanted an ultrabook with a moderately power discrete GPU you had a single option -- Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) MacBook Pro in Boot Camp mode. The last couple years, though, have been a renaissance of sorts with brands like The Lenovo Group, Ltd. (HKG:0992) and MSI...
From InfoWorld: Despite Microsoft's strong growth in the cloud market, Amazon reached a five-year high in its share of the cloud infrastructure service market.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) had 25 percent revenue growth from the third quarter to the fourth quarter, giving it a 30 percent global market...
From PC World: Sony has sold Sony Online Entertainment, an Internet games company it established in the 1990s, to investment firm Columbus Nova.
SOE has been renamed Daybreak Game Company and will operate as an independent game development studio producing titles for the PlayStation and Xbox...
From CNET: Android 5.0 Lollipop finally has enough market share to appear on Google's radar.
According to the latest version of the Android Developers Dashboard, published on Monday, Lollipop has found itself a home on 1.6 percent of Android devices. That percentage accounts for all Android devices...
From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) had some successes to be grateful for in Q4 2014, growing sales of its Lumia smartphones to a record 10.5 million units. But much of that volume was driven by low end models like the Lumia 530 and Lumia 630/635; Microsoft's sales have slowed on the mid-range...
Just like the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law, there is a difference between being correct, and being merely technically correct. As someone who was born near the very beginning of the nineties, it is fair for me to say I grew up in the nineties. Recently, someone told me they were also born and grew up in the nineties -- except for the fact she was born in November 1999. Can someone born in November 1999...
From InfoWorld: Google has expanded its bug bounty programs to cover the company's official mobile applications, and is seeking to stimulate vulnerability research on particular products by offering money in advance to bug hunters.
The company launched an experimental Vulnerability Research Grants...
From PC World: The Raspberry Pi 2 is now shipping, and you can buy it for the same price as the previous model. And get this: For the first time the mini-computer will support Microsoft’s Windows—specifically, Windows 10 for the development of smart devices and appliances.
At $35, the new computer...
From CNET: Yahoo's deal with Firefox maker Mozilla seems to have reversed years of hard times trying to reclaim its search-engine popularity lost to rival Google.
Under the late-2014 deal, US Firefox users see search results from Yahoo instead of Google unless they specifically set their browser's...
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