RIM: 1 billion app downloads down, 14 billion to go to catch Apple (Bob Brown/Network World)
Bob Brown / Network World:RIM: 1 billion app downloads down, 14 billion to go to catch Apple — RIM celebrates BlackBerry App World milestone, readies Version 3 of its app store — Research in Motion says its 2-year-old BlackBerry App World has crossed the 1 billion app download mark and that a beta version of [...]
Apple Leads App Market That May Bring In $3.8 Billion in ’11 (Adam Satariano/Bloomberg)
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:Apple Leads App Market That May Bring In $3.8 Billion in ’11 — Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other makers of smartphone operating systems may generate $3.8 billion this year from sales of downloadable games, organizational tools and other applications, according to researchers at IHS ISuppli.
Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition — Intel has officially completed its acquisition of security giant McAfee, according to a release issued today. Intel announced the $7.68 billion, all-cash deal last August. — According to the release, McAfee will continue developing …
Verizon to Acquire Terremark for $1.4 Billion (Rich Miller/Data Center Knowledge)
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:Verizon to Acquire Terremark for $1.4 Billion — The NAP of the Americas, the huge Terremark data center in downtown Miami. Verizon says it will buy Terremark (and the NAP) for $1.4 billion. — Verizon will acquire colocation and cloud hosting provider Terremark for $1.4 billion in a deal …
Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 10 Billion (Trudy Muller/Apple)
Trudy Muller / Apple:Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 10 Billion — Apple® today announced that more than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store℠ by the more than 160 million iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad™ users worldwide. The 10 billionth app downloaded …
Qualcomm Is Said to Be Near $3.5 Billion Deal for Atheros (DealBook)
DealBook:Qualcomm Is Said to Be Near $3.5 Billion Deal for Atheros — Qualcomm is near a deal to buy Atheros Communications, a semiconductor manufacturing company, for about $45 per share, or $3.5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. — A deal could be announced …
HP to pay $1.5 billion for security firm ArcSight – TMCnet
… Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to buy security software company ArcSight Inc for $1.5 billion as the computer maker continued … with potential suitors including IBM, Oracle and Cisco Systems The deal carries a …
HP to Buy ArcSight for $1.5 Billion, Gaining Security Software – BusinessWeek
Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s biggest personal-computer maker, agreed to buy ArcSight Inc. for about $1.5 billion to gain security software. ArcSight investors will receive $43 …
Chip maker Intel to buy computer security software maker McAfee in $7.68 billion deal – Minneapolis Star Tribune
NEW YORK – Intel Corp. said Thursday it is buying computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. for $7.68 billion as the chip-maker adds to its arsenal of tools to serve an increasing array of Internet-connected devices …
Over 5 billion mobiles in 2010 (Network World)
Network World:Over 5 billion mobiles in 2010 — Worldwide mobile subscriptions to exceed 5 billion — There will be over five billion mobile subscriptions by the end of 2010, with an approximate 4.8 billion connections having been reached by the end of the year’s first quarter.
