From DailyTech: Staples, Inc. (SPLS), America's largest office supply retail chain, took a bold gamble on Wed., announcing a $6.3B USD bid for Office Depot, Inc. (ODP) America's only other major dedicated office retail chain. The deal offers Office Depot shareholders $7.25 USD/share in cash per...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft is said to be acquiring Sunrise Atelier, maker of a hip calendar application that could aid in jazzing up Microsoft's own software.

Microsoft is acquiring the company for at least $100 million, TechCrunch reported Wednesday. A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to comment...

From PC World: Adobe Systems has started distributing an update for the latest Flash security flaw, which is already being exploited in malicious advertising attacks.

The fix repairs a vulnerability, CVE-2015-0313, which could potentially allow a hacker to take complete control over a user’s system...

From CNET: Microsoft has hammered a nail in the coffin of its Windows RT lineup.

The software giant has stopped making its last remaining RT device, namely the Nokia Lumia 2520 Windows RT tablet, a spokesman for the company told the Verge. This latest development follows news that Microsoft had...

From CNET: Sprint is showing faint signs of life.

The nation's third-largest wireless carrier, which has suffered through several quarters of customer defections, finally returned to growth, adding nearly 900,000 customers in its Sprint business. Most notably, it added 30,000 subscribers who pay at...

From InfoWorld: The company that powers your smartphones and tablets has introduced its most powerful chip design yet, the Cortex-A72, which should find its way into gadgets early next year.

ARM says the A72 will provide 3.5 times the performance of its current Cortex-A15 design, which is widely...

From PC World: To bring its microprocessor designs to emerging markets, ARM Holdings is looking to China and its growing number of electronics vendors to help pave the way.

“The Greater China region is becoming a key market to ARM, not just in terms of market share,” said Allen Wu, ARM’s Greater...

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...