ARM taps China to bring chip designs to emerging markets

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...

Staples to buy Office Depot for $6 billion

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...

MacBook Pro Killer? New Razer Blade Packs an Enviable Spec

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...

Amazon hits 5-year high in cloud market

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...

Sony sells off Sony Online Entertainment, maker of EverQuest and H1Z1

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...

Lollipop nibbles off 1.6 percent of Android devices

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...

ARCTIC Z2 Pro Review

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...

Raspberry Pi 2 is six times faster than Pi 1, supports Windows 10

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...

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